---
type: "Bill"
title: "Santa Clara Valley Water District: special taxes."
description: "Santa Clara Valley Water District: special taxes."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20012002"
identifier: "AB 88"
citation: "California AB 88 (20012002)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Santa Clara Valley Water District: special taxes."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Alquist"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 17
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2001-01-08"
last_action: "2001-07-16"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/5afd8cf9-bc3c-4243-a424-3c199387ab87"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=200120020AB88"
source_hash: "3740fbd3172d754b7950ac4d540377d821c52d6194ceebcefb59a759d2b0cf31"
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 88 (20012002) — Santa Clara Valley Water District: special taxes.

## Version chain

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

1. **01/08/01 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200120020AB88&version=20010AB8899INT)
2. **03/26/01 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200120020AB88&version=20010AB8898AMD)
3. **07/16/01 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200120020AB88&version=20010AB8896CHP)
4. **AB88** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=200120020AB88)
5. **06/28/01 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200120020AB88&version=20010AB8897ENR)

## Votes

- AB 88 Alquist Assembly Third Reading Urgency — **pass** (pass) · lower
- Do pass as amended. — **pass** (pass) · lower
- Assembly 3rd Reading AB88 Alquist By Vasconcellos — **pass** (pass) · upper
- Do pass. — **pass** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Alquist — primary (person)
- Cohn — principal coauthor (person)
- Diaz — principal coauthor (person)
- Salinas — principal coauthor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2001-07-16** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 63, Statutes of 2001.
- **2001-07-16** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2001-07-03** Enrolled and to the Governor at 4 p.m.
- **2001-06-28** In Assembly. To enrollment.
- **2001-06-28** Read third time. Urgency clause adopted. Passed and to Assembly. (Ayes 39. Noes 0.) `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2001-06-21** Read second time. To third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2001-06-20** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 5. Noes 0.). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2001-05-14** In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
- **2001-04-18** Referred to Standing Committee on Local Government. `referral-committee`
- **2001-03-29** In Senate. Read first time. To Standing Committee on Rules for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2001-03-29** Read third time. Urgency clause adopted. Passed and to Senate. (Ayes 74. Noes 0. Page 828.) `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2001-03-27** Read second time. To third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2001-03-26** Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading. `reading-2, amendment-passage, reading-1`
- **2001-03-23** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.) (March 21). `amendment-introduction, committee-passage, amendment-passage`
- **2001-03-01** Referred to Standing Committee on Local Government. `referral-committee`
- **2001-01-09** From printer. May be heard in committee February 8.
- **2001-01-08** 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/5afd8cf9-bc3c-4243-a424-3c199387ab87`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).