---
type: "Bill"
title: "Income taxes: designations: senior citizens."
description: "Income taxes: designations: senior citizens."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "19992000"
identifier: "AB 1697"
citation: "California AB 1697 (19992000)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Income taxes: designations: senior citizens."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Committee on Aging and Long-Term Care"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 20
vote_count: 5
first_action: "1999-04-05"
last_action: "1999-08-24"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/615370dc-26a3-46a7-af42-db4c20ce7bcf"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=199920000AB1697"
source_hash: "76600026eaca192bac759d7a787ef59d1ce5c16ce5bed9736e427bc9d349366b"
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 1697 (19992000) — Income taxes: designations: senior citizens.

## Version chain

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

1. **04/05/99 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=199920000AB1697&version=19990AB169799INT)
2. **05/06/99 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=199920000AB1697&version=19990AB169798AMD)
3. **05/20/99 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=199920000AB1697&version=19990AB169797AMD)
4. **08/24/99 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=199920000AB1697&version=19990AB169795CHP)
5. **AB1697** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=199920000AB1697)
6. **08/16/99 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=199920000AB1697&version=19990AB169796ENR)

## Votes

- Do pass. — **pass** (pass) · lower
- Do pass. — **pass** (pass) · upper
- AB 1697 THIRD READING BY ALQUIST — **pass** (pass) · lower
- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on Revenue and Taxation. — **pass** (pass) · lower
- Assembly 3rd Reading AB1697 Committee on Aging and Long-Term Vasconcellos — **pass** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Committee on Aging and Long-Term Care — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **1999-08-24** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 228, Statutes of 1999.
- **1999-08-23** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **1999-08-19** Enrolled and to the Governor at 3 p.m.
- **1999-08-17** In Assembly. To enrollment.
- **1999-08-16** Read third time, passed, and to Assembly. (Ayes 28. Noes 6. Page 2402.) `passage, reading-3, reading-1`
- **1999-07-12** Read second time. To third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **1999-07-08** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 6. Noes 0.). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **1999-06-02** Referred to Standing Committee on Revenue and Taxation. `referral-committee`
- **1999-05-25** In Senate. Read first time. To Standing Committee on Rules for assignment. `reading-1`
- **1999-05-24** Read third time, passed, and to Senate. (Ayes 70. Noes 6. Page 1817.) `passage, reading-3, reading-1`
- **1999-05-20** Read third time, amended, and returned to third reading. `reading-3, amendment-passage, reading-1`
- **1999-05-12** Read second time. To third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **1999-05-11** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 5. Noes 1.) (May 10). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **1999-05-10** From committee: Do pass, and re-refer to Standing Committee on Revenue and Taxation. Re-referred. (Ayes 5. Noes 0.) (May 10). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
- **1999-05-10** Re-referred to Standing Committee on Aging and Long Term Care Joint Rule 62(a), file notice waived. `referral-committee`
- **1999-05-06** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Standing Committee on Aging and Long Term Care Read second time and amended. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1, referral-committee`
- **1999-04-19** Art. IV, Sec. 8(a) of the Constitution dispensed with and Joint Rule 55 suspended.
- **1999-04-08** Referred to Standing Committee on Aging and Long Term Care and Standing Committee on Revenue and Taxation. `referral-committee`
- **1999-04-06** From printer. May be heard in committee May 6.
- **1999-04-05** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/615370dc-26a3-46a7-af42-db4c20ce7bcf`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).