---
type: "Bill"
title: "Budget Act of 2007."
description: "Budget Act of 2007."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20072008"
identifier: "AB 194"
citation: "California AB 194 (20072008)"
classification: ["bill", "appropriation"]
subjects: ["Budget Act of 2007."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Committee on Budget"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 19
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2007-01-25"
last_action: "2007-10-11"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/5581a290-5995-468e-b14b-aefa4ddc5286"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=200720080AB194"
source_hash: "fc5e8a585cca14a724925c2ea7c12d188297b126aafd34057568adf47678a158"
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 194 (20072008) — Budget Act of 2007.

## Version chain

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

1. **01/25/07 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200720080AB194&version=20070AB19499INT)
2. **09/07/07 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200720080AB194&version=20070AB19498AMD)
3. **10/11/07 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200720080AB194&version=20070AB19496CHP)
4. **AB194** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=200720080AB194)
5. **09/19/07 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200720080AB194&version=20070AB19497ENR)

## Votes

- AB 194 BUDGET Assembly Third Reading By LAIRD — **pass** (pass) · lower
- AB 194 BUDGET Concurrence- Urgency Added By LAIRD — **pass** (pass) · lower
- Assembly 3rd Reading AB194 Committee on BUDGET (Laird) Urgency Clause — **pass** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Committee on Budget — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2007-01-25** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
- **2007-01-26** From printer. May be heard in committee February 25.
- **2007-04-19** Without reference to committee. `referral-committee`
- **2007-04-19** Read second time. To third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2007-05-03** Read third time, passed, and to Senate. (Ayes 44. Noes 1. Page 1292.) `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2007-05-03** In Senate. Read first time. To Standing Committee on Rules for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2007-05-09** Referred to Standing Committee on Rules. `referral-committee`
- **2007-07-16** Withdrawn from committee. Ordered placed on second reading file.
- **2007-07-17** Read second time. To third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2007-08-27** To inactive file on motion of Senator Perata.
- **2007-09-04** From inactive file. To second reading.
- **2007-09-05** Read second time. To third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2007-09-07** Read third time, amended, and returned to third reading. `reading-1, reading-3, amendment-passage`
- **2007-09-07** Read third time. Urgency clause adopted. Passed and to Assembly. (Ayes 29. Noes 7. Page 2442.) `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2007-09-07** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after September 9 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
- **2007-09-10** Urgency clause adopted. Senate amendments concurred in. To enrollment. (Ayes 71. Noes 3. Page 3186.) `committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage`
- **2007-09-28** Enrolled and to the Governor at 3:45 p.m.
- **2007-10-11** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2007-10-11** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 489, Statutes of 2007.

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/5581a290-5995-468e-b14b-aefa4ddc5286`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).