---
type: "Bill"
title: "Income tax credit: qualified principal residence."
description: "The Personal Income Tax Law authorizes various credits against the taxes imposed by that law, including a credit against those taxes in an amount equal to the lesser of 5% of the purchase price of a qualified principal residence, as defined, or $10,000, for purchases made between March 1, 2009, and before March 1, 2010, subject to specified restrictions."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20092010"
identifier: "AB 183"
citation: "California AB 183 (20092010)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Income tax credit: qualified principal residence."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Caballero"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 25
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2009-02-02"
last_action: "2010-03-25"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/cd19a2a3-3f8e-4629-b580-e4bab22c5bde"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB183"
source_hash: "929b3636facacf9300dcd933c017888efe50059191f2885fdfd2095e639863f8"
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 183 (20092010) — Income tax credit: qualified principal residence.

The Personal Income Tax Law authorizes various credits against the taxes imposed by that law, including a credit against those taxes in an amount equal to the lesser of 5% of the purchase price of a qualified principal residence, as defined, or $10,000, for purchases made between March 1, 2009, and before March 1, 2010, subject to specified restrictions.

## Version chain

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

1. **02/02/09 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB183&version=20090AB18399INT)
2. **03/18/10 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB183&version=20090AB18397AMD)
3. **03/25/10 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB183&version=20090AB18395CHP)
4. **09/04/09 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB183&version=20090AB18398AMD)
5. **AB183** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB183)
6. **03/22/10 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB183&version=20090AB18396ENR)

## Votes

- AB 183 BUDGET Assembly Third Reading By EVANS — **pass** (pass) · lower
- AB 183 BUDGET Assembly Third Reading By EVANS — **pass** (pass) · lower
- W/O REF. TO FILE AB183 Caballero — **pass** (pass) · upper
- AB 183 CABALLERO Concurrence in Senate Amendments — **pass** (pass) · lower
- Do pass. — **pass** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Caballero — primary (person)
- Alquist — coauthor (person)
- Ashburn — principal coauthor (person)
- Calderon — principal coauthor (person)
- Huber — coauthor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2009-02-02** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
- **2009-02-03** From printer. May be heard in committee March 5.
- **2009-03-31** Referred to Com. on BUDGET. `referral-committee`
- **2009-04-27** Withdrawn from committee. Ordered placed on second reading file.
- **2009-04-29** Read second time. To third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2009-05-04** Read third time, passed, and to Senate. (Ayes 51. Noes 0. Page 1224.) `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2009-05-04** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2009-05-14** Referred to Com. on RLS. `referral-committee`
- **2009-06-11** Withdrawn from committee. Ordered placed on second reading file.
- **2009-06-15** Read second time. To third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2009-09-04** Read third time, amended. To second reading. `reading-3, amendment-passage, reading-1`
- **2009-09-08** Read second time. To third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2010-03-17** Re-referred to Com. on RLS. `referral-committee`
- **2010-03-18** Re-referred to Com. on B. & F.R. `referral-committee`
- **2010-03-18** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on B. & F.R. `amendment-introduction, reading-2, amendment-passage, referral-committee, reading-1`
- **2010-03-18** (Corrected March 23.)
- **2010-03-22** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 15. Noes 0.) (March 22). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2010-03-22** Ordered to third reading.
- **2010-03-22** Read third time, passed, and to Assembly. (Ayes 29. Noes 1. Page 2981.) `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2010-03-22** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after March 24 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
- **2010-03-22** Assembly Rule 77 suspended. (Page 4362.)
- **2010-03-22** Senate amendments concurred in. To enrollment. (Ayes 67. Noes 2. Page 4362.) `amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2010-03-22** Enrolled and to the Governor at 6 p.m.
- **2010-03-25** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2010-03-25** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 12, Statutes of 2010.

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/cd19a2a3-3f8e-4629-b580-e4bab22c5bde`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).