---
type: "Bill"
title: "Taxation: low-income housing."
description: "Taxation: low-income housing."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "19992000"
identifier: "AB 97"
citation: "California AB 97 (19992000)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Taxation: low-income housing."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Torlakson"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 26
vote_count: 9
first_action: "1998-12-14"
last_action: "1999-10-10"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/00a905c6-a82a-4209-8b0f-f22078895790"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=199920000AB97"
source_hash: "a56a28926069a4eefd3265633ad8930c9e63c6d22d672ff195d5262aa13c9b78"
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 97 (19992000) — Taxation: low-income housing.

## Version chain

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

1. **12/14/98 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=199920000AB97&version=19990AB9799INT)
2. **02/25/99 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=199920000AB97&version=19990AB9798AMD)
3. **09/03/99 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=199920000AB97&version=19990AB9797AMD)
4. **10/10/99 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=199920000AB97&version=19990AB9795CHP)
5. **AB97** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=199920000AB97)
6. **09/10/99 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=199920000AB97&version=19990AB9796ENR)

## Votes

- SPEC. CONSENT CALENDAR SECOND DAY CONCURRENCE — **pass** (pass) · lower
- Do pass. — **pass** (pass) · lower
- Do pass. — **pass** (pass) · upper
- Do pass, but re-refer to the Committee on Appropriations Recommend Consent. — **pass** (pass) · legislature
- AB 97 TORLAKSON THIRD READING — **pass** (pass) · lower
- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on Housing and Community Development. — **pass** (pass) · lower
- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on Appropriations. — **pass** (pass) · lower
- Placed on Appropriations suspense file. — **pass** (pass) · upper
- SPECIAL CONSENT CALE AB97 Torlakson By Alarcon — **pass** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Torlakson — primary (person)
- Alpert — coauthor (person)
- Calderon — coauthor (person)
- Costa — coauthor (person)
- Figueroa — coauthor (person)
- Honda — coauthor (person)
- Kuehl — coauthor (person)
- Leach — coauthor (person)
- Romero — coauthor (person)
- Steinberg — coauthor (person)
- Wayne — coauthor (person)
- Wildman — coauthor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **1999-10-10** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 893, Statutes of 1999.
- **1999-10-09** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **1999-09-24** Enrolled and to the Governor at 10 a.m.
- **1999-09-10** Senate amendments concurred in. To enrollment. (Ayes 68. Noes 0. Page 4482.) `committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage`
- **1999-09-08** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. Ordered to Special Consent Calendar.
- **1999-09-08** Read third time, passed, and to Assembly. (Ayes 40. Noes 0. Page 3097.) `passage, reading-3, reading-1`
- **1999-09-07** Read second time. To third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **1999-09-03** Read third time, amended. To second reading. `reading-3, amendment-passage, reading-1`
- **1999-09-01** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 13. Noes 0.). Read second time. To third reading. `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, reading-2, reading-1`
- **1999-08-23** Joint Rule 61 (a) suspended.
- **1999-08-16** In committee: Placed on Appropriations suspense file.
- **1999-07-12** From committee: Do pass, and re-refer to Standing Committee on Appropriations with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. Re-referred. (Ayes 5. Noes 0.). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
- **1999-06-17** Referred to Standing Committee on Housing and Community Development. `referral-committee`
- **1999-05-28** In Senate. Read first time. To Standing Committee on Rules for assignment. `reading-1`
- **1999-05-27** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 21. Noes 0.) (May 26). Read second time. To third reading. Read third time, passed, and to Senate. (Ayes 79. Noes 0. Page 2026.) `committee-passage, reading-3, passage, committee-passage-favorable, reading-2, reading-1`
- **1999-04-28** In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to Standing Committee on Appropriations suspense file. `referral-committee`
- **1999-04-14** From committee: Do pass, and re-refer to Standing Committee on Appropriations Re-referred. (Ayes 11. Noes 0.) (April 14). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
- **1999-04-07** From committee: Do pass, and re-refer to Standing Committee on Housing and Community Development Re-referred. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (April 5). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
- **1999-03-23** In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
- **1999-03-09** In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
- **1999-03-01** Re-referred to Standing Committee on Revenue and Taxation. `referral-committee`
- **1999-02-25** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Standing Committee on Revenue and Taxation. Read second time and amended. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1, referral-committee`
- **1999-01-15** Referred to Standing Committee on Revenue and Taxation. and Standing Committee on Housing and Community Development. `referral-committee`
- **1999-01-04** Read first time. `reading-1`
- **1998-12-15** From printer. May be heard in committee January 14.
- **1998-12-14** 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/00a905c6-a82a-4209-8b0f-f22078895790`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).