---
type: "Bill"
title: "Personal income and business and corporation taxes: administration: violations: refunds."
description: "Personal income and business and corporation taxes: administration: violations: refunds."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20032004"
identifier: "AB 1260"
citation: "California AB 1260 (20032004)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Personal income and business and corporation taxes: administration: violations: refunds."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Matthews"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 19
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2003-02-21"
last_action: "2004-07-16"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/569d21f4-50f7-403d-a659-7245b35c767a"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=200320040AB1260"
source_hash: "8c48c92f3e1b17cf0cf6c5d74eed8ae2f4d109a4a6c5e5ce2050c663d5747556"
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 1260 (20032004) — Personal income and business and corporation taxes: administration: violations: refunds.

## Version chain

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

1. **02/21/03 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200320040AB1260&version=20030AB126099INT)
2. **01/05/04 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200320040AB1260&version=20030AB126098AMD)
3. **07/16/04 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200320040AB1260&version=20030AB126096CHP)
4. **AB1260** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=200320040AB1260)
5. **07/01/04 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200320040AB1260&version=20030AB126097ENR)

## Votes

- ab 1260 matthews assembly third reading — **pass** (pass) · lower
- Do pass. — **pass** (pass) · lower
- Do pass. — **pass** (pass) · upper
- assembly 3rd reading ab1260 matthews by romero — **pass** (pass) · upper
- do pass and re-refer to committee on appropriations with recommendation: to consent calendar. — **pass** (pass) · lower
- Do pass, but re-refer to the Committee on Appropriations. — **pass** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Matthews — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2004-07-16** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 163, Statutes of 2004.
- **2004-07-15** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2004-07-08** Enrolled and to the Governor at 2:30 p.m.
- **2004-07-02** In Assembly. To enrollment.
- **2004-07-01** Read third time, passed, and to Assembly. (Ayes 34. Noes 0. Page 4528.) `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2004-06-23** Read second time. To third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2004-06-22** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 8. Noes 0.). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2004-06-08** From committee: Do pass, and re-refer to Standing Committee on Appropriations Re-referred. (Ayes 4. Noes 1.). `committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee, committee-passage`
- **2004-05-25** In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
- **2004-02-17** Referred to Standing Committee on Public Safety. `referral-committee`
- **2004-01-28** In Senate. Read first time. To Standing Committee on Rules for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2004-01-26** Read third time, passed, and to Senate. (Ayes 75. Noes 0. Page 4364.) `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2004-01-22** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 22. Noes 1.) (January 21). Read second time. To third reading. `committee-passage-favorable, reading-2, committee-passage, reading-1`
- **2004-01-13** From committee: Do pass, and re-refer to Standing Committee on Appropriations with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. Re-referred. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (January 12). `committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee, committee-passage`
- **2004-01-05** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Standing Committee on Transportation Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Standing Committee on Transportation Re-referred to Standing Committee on Revenue and Taxation. by unanimous consent. `referral-committee, amendment-passage, amendment-introduction, reading-2, reading-1`
- **2003-04-23** In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
- **2003-03-06** Referred to Standing Committee on Transportation. `referral-committee`
- **2003-02-24** From printer. May be heard in committee March 26. Read first time. `reading-1`
- **2003-02-21** 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/569d21f4-50f7-403d-a659-7245b35c767a`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).