---
type: "Bill"
title: "Office of Economic Research: duties: tax strategies and international trade."
description: "Office of Economic Research: duties: tax strategies and international trade."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "19992000"
identifier: "AB 1616"
citation: "California AB 1616 (19992000)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Office of Economic Research: duties: tax strategies and international trade."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Havice"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 19
vote_count: 6
first_action: "1999-02-26"
last_action: "1999-09-16"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/ddeed90c-6917-4c8e-8f29-558548c981e4"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=199920000AB1616"
source_hash: "a203b4c8cd394b0fce522d1ebc359fe60ca23c53d4cca71319cec7e3da4f227f"
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 1616 (19992000) — Office of Economic Research: duties: tax strategies and international trade.

## 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=199920000AB1616&version=19990AB161699INT)
2. **08/19/99 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=199920000AB1616&version=19990AB161698AMD)
3. **09/16/99 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=199920000AB1616&version=19990AB161696CHP)
4. **AB1616** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=199920000AB1616)
5. **08/26/99 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=199920000AB1616&version=19990AB161697ENR)

## Votes

- Special Consent #24 AB1616 Havice By Costa — **pass** (pass) · upper
- Do pass, to Consent Calendar. — **pass** (pass) · lower
- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on Appropriations. — **pass** (pass) · lower
- CONSENT CALENDAR SECOND DAY — **pass** (pass) · lower
- SPEC. CONSENT CALENDAR SECOND DAY CONCURRENCE — **pass** (pass) · lower
- Do pass, but re-refer to the Committee on Appropriations. — **pass** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Havice — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **1999-09-16** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 431, Statutes of 1999.
- **1999-09-16** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **1999-09-01** Enrolled and to the Governor at 3 p.m.
- **1999-08-26** Senate amendments concurred in. To enrollment. (Ayes 76. Noes 0. Page 3508.) `committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage`
- **1999-08-24** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after August 26 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77. Ordered to Special Consent Calendar.
- **1999-08-24** Read third time, passed, and to Assembly. (Ayes 40. Noes 0. Page 2615.) `passage, reading-3, reading-1`
- **1999-08-19** Read second time, amended, and to third reading. `amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1`
- **1999-08-18** From committee: Be placed on second reading file pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8 and be amended. `committee-passage, amendment-passage`
- **1999-06-10** From committee: Do pass, and re-refer to Standing Committee on Appropriations Re-referred. (Ayes 8. Noes 0.). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
- **1999-05-19** Referred to Com. on F.,I. & I.T. `referral-committee`
- **1999-05-10** In Senate. Read first time. To Standing Committee on Rules for assignment. `reading-1`
- **1999-05-10** Read third time, passed, and to Senate. (Ayes 79. Noes 0. Page 1525.) `passage, reading-3, reading-1`
- **1999-05-03** Read second time. To Consent Calendar. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **1999-04-29** From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (April 28). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **1999-04-13** From committee: Do pass, and re-refer to Standing Committee on Appropriations Re-referred. (Ayes 5. Noes 0.) (April 12). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
- **1999-03-22** Referred to Com. on I. T. & D. `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/ddeed90c-6917-4c8e-8f29-558548c981e4`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).