---
type: "Bill"
title: "Personal income tax and corporation tax: administration: e-filing."
description: "Personal income tax and corporation tax: administration: e-filing."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20032004"
identifier: "AB 2480"
citation: "California AB 2480 (20032004)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Personal income tax and corporation tax: administration: e-filing."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Campbell"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 20
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2004-02-19"
last_action: "2004-08-23"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/50a206a5-30f0-47d4-8d20-742767cc8435"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=200320040AB2480"
source_hash: "cb78e9efe63c4e26058cc4ac231adadb1ac14d5b6b1ffdf639c733150107adcf"
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 2480 (20032004) — Personal income tax and corporation tax: administration: e-filing.

## Version chain

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

1. **02/19/04 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200320040AB2480&version=20030AB248099INT)
2. **04/15/04 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200320040AB2480&version=20030AB248098AMD)
3. **08/23/04 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200320040AB2480&version=20030AB248096CHP)
4. **AB2480** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=200320040AB2480)
5. **07/29/04 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200320040AB2480&version=20030AB248097ENR)

## Votes

- special consent cale ab2480 campbell — **pass** (pass) · upper
- ab 2480 campbell consent calendar second day regular session — **pass** (pass) · lower
- Do pass, but re-refer to the Committee on Appropriations Recommend Consent. — **pass** (pass) · upper
- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on Appropriations. — **pass** (pass) · lower
- do pass, to consent calendar. — **pass** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Campbell — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2004-08-23** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 267, Statutes of 2004.
- **2004-08-23** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2004-08-09** Enrolled and to the Governor at 2 p.m.
- **2004-08-05** In Assembly. To enrollment.
- **2004-07-29** Read third time. Urgency clause adopted. Passed and to Assembly. (Ayes 39. Noes 0. Page 4728.) `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2004-07-14** Read second time. To third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2004-07-13** From committee: Be placed on second reading file pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8. `committee-passage`
- **2004-07-07** In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
- **2004-06-24** From committee: Do pass, and re-refer to Standing Committee on Appropriations with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. Re-referred. (Ayes 6. Noes 0.). `committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee, committee-passage`
- **2004-06-09** Referred to Standing Committee on Revenue and Taxation. `referral-committee`
- **2004-05-26** In Senate. Read first time. To Standing Committee on Rules for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2004-05-25** Read third time. Urgency clause adopted. Passed and to Senate. (Ayes 77. Noes 0. Page 6029.) `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2004-05-20** From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (May 19). Read second time. To Consent Calendar. `committee-passage-favorable, reading-2, committee-passage, reading-1`
- **2004-05-11** From committee: Do pass, and re-refer to Standing Committee on Appropriations Re-referred. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (May 10). `committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee, committee-passage`
- **2004-04-26** In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
- **2004-04-16** Re-referred to Standing Committee on Revenue and Taxation. `referral-committee`
- **2004-04-15** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Standing Committee on Revenue and Taxation. Read second time and amended. `referral-committee, amendment-passage, amendment-introduction, reading-2, reading-1`
- **2004-03-04** Referred to Standing Committee on Revenue and Taxation. `referral-committee`
- **2004-02-20** From printer. May be heard in committee March 21.
- **2004-02-19** 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/50a206a5-30f0-47d4-8d20-742767cc8435`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).