---
type: "Bill"
title: "State government."
description: "State government."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20072008"
identifier: "AB 199"
citation: "California AB 199 (20072008)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["State government."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Committee on Budget"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 20
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2007-01-25"
last_action: "2007-08-24"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/7229aecf-205d-4c81-9906-93eb92b8ebbd"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=200720080AB199"
source_hash: "9ea4158d4ac1184bad307d1d866b224ebb1a2ad7753df3e316e1b472609825d5"
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 199 (20072008) — State government.

## 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=200720080AB199&version=20070AB19999INT)
2. **08/21/07 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200720080AB199&version=20070AB19998AMD)
3. **08/24/07 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200720080AB199&version=20070AB19996CHP)
4. **AB199** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=200720080AB199)
5. **08/22/07 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200720080AB199&version=20070AB19997ENR)

## Votes

- AB 199 BUDGET Assembly Third Reading By LAIRD — **pass** (pass) · lower
- Assembly 3rd Reading AB199 Committee on BUDGET (Laird) Urgency Clause — **pass** (pass) · upper
- AB 199 BUDGET Concurrence- Urgency Added By LAIRD — **pass** (pass) · lower

## 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 1294.) `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`
- **2007-08-21** Read third time. `reading-1, reading-3`
- **2007-08-21** Amended.
- **2007-08-21** Senate Rule 29.3 suspended.
- **2007-08-21** To third reading.
- **2007-08-21** Read third time. Urgency clause adopted. Passed and to Assembly. (Ayes 34. Noes 3. Page 2014.) `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2007-08-21** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after August 23 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
- **2007-08-21** Assembly Rule 77 suspended. (Page 2654.)
- **2007-08-21** Urgency clause adopted. Senate amendments concurred in. To enrollment. (Ayes 63. Noes 8. Page 2654.) `committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage`
- **2007-08-23** Enrolled and to the Governor at 10 a.m.
- **2007-08-24** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2007-08-24** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 186, Statutes of 2007.

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/7229aecf-205d-4c81-9906-93eb92b8ebbd`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).