---
type: "Bill"
title: "Year 2000 liability."
description: "Year 2000 liability."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "19992000"
identifier: "AB 1476"
citation: "California AB 1476 (19992000)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Year 2000 liability."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Dutra"]
version_count: 7
action_count: 21
vote_count: 5
first_action: "1999-02-26"
last_action: "1999-10-10"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/b50ac911-a401-40fa-aa5f-f62e66e6f59d"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=199920000AB1476"
source_hash: "1b59e0fb2dc8f5c540c2534bb07b0d2369c295b69a94de83c7eee2d4ca58acbe"
vintage: "2026-07-01"
source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
confidence: "reported"
tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-ca"]
---

# California AB 1476 (19992000) — Year 2000 liability.

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **02/26/99 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=199920000AB1476&version=19990AB147699INT)
2. **08/30/99 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=199920000AB1476&version=19990AB147698AMD)
3. **09/07/99 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=199920000AB1476&version=19990AB147697AMD)
4. **09/10/99 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=199920000AB1476&version=19990AB147696AMD)
5. **10/10/99 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=199920000AB1476&version=19990AB147694CHP)
6. **AB1476** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=199920000AB1476)
7. **09/10/99 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=199920000AB1476&version=19990AB147695ENR)

## Votes

- Do pass and re-refer to Committee on Appropriations with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. — **pass** (pass) · lower
- W/O REF. TO FILE AB1476 Dutra By Bowen — **pass** (pass) · upper
- CONSENT CALENDAR SECOND DAY — **pass** (pass) · lower
- Do pass, to Consent Calendar. — **pass** (pass) · lower
- AB 1476 DUTRA CONCURRENCE W/O REFERENCE TO FILE — **pass** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Dutra — primary (person)

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **1999-10-10** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 698, Statutes of 1999.
- **1999-10-06** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **1999-09-24** Enrolled and to the Governor at 10 a.m.
- **1999-09-10** In Assembly. Senate amendments concurred in. To enrollment. (Ayes 57. Noes 12. Page 4449.) `committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage`
- **1999-09-10** Withdrawn from committee. Ordered placed on third reading file. Read third time. Amended. Senate Rule 29.3 suspended. Read third time, passed, and to Assembly. (Ayes 39. Noes 0. Page 3299.) `passage, reading-3, reading-1`
- **1999-09-09** In committee: Hearing postponed by committee. Joint Rule 61 (a) suspended. Withdrawn from committee. Re-referred to Standing Committee on Appropriations. `referral-committee`
- **1999-09-07** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Standing Committee on Judiciary. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1, referral-committee`
- **1999-09-01** Withdrawn from committee. Re-referred to Standing Committee on Judiciary. `referral-committee`
- **1999-08-31** Withdrawn from committee. Re-referred to Standing Committee on Rules. `referral-committee`
- **1999-08-30** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Standing Committee on Local Government. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1, referral-committee`
- **1999-06-08** In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
- **1999-05-26** Referred to Standing Committee on Local Government. `referral-committee`
- **1999-05-20** In Senate. Read first time. To Standing Committee on Rules for assignment. `reading-1`
- **1999-05-20** Read third time, passed, and to Senate. (Ayes 76. Noes 0. Page 1780.) `passage, reading-3, reading-1`
- **1999-05-17** Read second time. To Consent Calendar. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **1999-05-13** From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (May 12). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **1999-04-15** From committee: Do pass, and re-refer to Standing Committee on Appropriations with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. Re-referred. (Ayes 8. Noes 0.) (April 14). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
- **1999-03-23** Referred to Standing Committee on Local Government. `referral-committee`
- **1999-03-01** Read first time. `reading-1`
- **1999-02-28** From printer. May be heard in committee March 30.
- **1999-02-26** Introduced. To print. `introduction`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/b50ac911-a401-40fa-aa5f-f62e66e6f59d`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).