---
type: "Bill"
title: "Workforce housing cooperative trust."
description: "(1) Existing law defines \"limited-equity housing cooperative\" to be a corporation that meets specified criteria. Existing law exempts a limited-equity housing cooperative from specified requirements for the regulation of transactions of subdivided lands."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20092010"
identifier: "AB 1246"
citation: "California AB 1246 (20092010)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Workforce housing cooperative trust."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Jones"]
version_count: 8
action_count: 29
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2009-02-27"
last_action: "2009-10-11"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/5b031c07-efdd-445f-91e0-4cec8e3ab7fd"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB1246"
source_hash: "4cc4c97580fcbc030f617fc535a12156b177556ac1ce726e6f3118829f8bee47"
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 1246 (20092010) — Workforce housing cooperative trust.

(1) Existing law defines "limited-equity housing cooperative" to be a corporation that meets specified criteria. Existing law exempts a limited-equity housing cooperative from specified requirements for the regulation of transactions of subdivided lands.

## Version chain

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

1. **02/27/09 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB1246&version=20090AB124699INT)
2. **04/13/09 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB1246&version=20090AB124698AMD)
3. **05/05/09 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB1246&version=20090AB124697AMD)
4. **06/16/09 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB1246&version=20090AB124696AMD)
5. **07/15/09 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB1246&version=20090AB124695AMD)
6. **10/11/09 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB1246&version=20090AB124693CHP)
7. **AB1246** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB1246)
8. **08/26/09 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB1246&version=20090AB124694ENR)

## Votes

- Do pass, to Consent Calendar. — **pass** (pass) · lower
- AB 1246 JONES Consent Calendar Second Day Regular Session — **pass** (pass) · lower
- Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on Judiciary. — **pass** (pass) · lower
- Do pass as amended. — **pass** (pass) · upper
- AB 1246 JONES Concurrence in Senate Amendments — **pass** (pass) · lower
- Special Consent #14 AB1246 Jones — **pass** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Jones — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2009-02-27** Introduced. To print. `introduction`
- **2009-03-01** From printer. May be heard in committee March 30.
- **2009-03-02** Read first time. `reading-1`
- **2009-03-31** Referred to Coms. on H. & C.D. and JUD. `referral-committee`
- **2009-04-13** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on H. & C.D. Read second time and amended. `amendment-introduction, reading-2, amendment-passage, reading-1`
- **2009-04-13** (Corrected April 28.)
- **2009-04-13** Re-referred to Com. on H. & C.D. `referral-committee`
- **2009-05-04** From committee: Amend, do pass as amended, and re-refer to Com. on JUD. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (April 29). `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage`
- **2009-05-05** Read second time and amended. `amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1`
- **2009-05-06** Re-referred to Com. on JUD. `referral-committee`
- **2009-05-12** From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (May 12). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2009-05-13** Read second time. To Consent Calendar. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2009-05-18** Read third time, passed, and to Senate. (Ayes 77. Noes 0. Page 1557.) `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2009-05-18** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2009-06-04** Referred to Com. on T. & H. `referral-committee`
- **2009-06-16** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on T. & H. `amendment-introduction, reading-2, amendment-passage, referral-committee, reading-1`
- **2009-06-23** In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
- **2009-06-29** In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
- **2009-07-01** In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
- **2009-07-14** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 10. Noes 0.) (July 7). `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage`
- **2009-07-15** Read second time, amended, and to third reading. `amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1`
- **2009-07-15** Ordered to Special Consent Calendar.
- **2009-07-15** (Corrected July 21.)
- **2009-08-17** Read third time, passed, and to Assembly. (Ayes 35. Noes 0. Page 1843.) `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2009-08-17** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after August 19 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
- **2009-08-24** Senate amendments concurred in. To enrollment. (Ayes 77. Noes 0. Page 2704.) `amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2009-08-31** Enrolled and to the Governor at 5:15 p.m.
- **2009-10-11** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2009-10-11** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 520, Statutes of 2009.

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/5b031c07-efdd-445f-91e0-4cec8e3ab7fd`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).