---
type: "Bill"
title: "Income and corporation taxes: Franchise Tax Board: administration: electronic communication."
description: "Existing law, among other things, requires the Franchise Tax Board to administer the Personal Income Tax Law and the Corporation Tax Law."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20092010"
identifier: "AB 2177"
citation: "California AB 2177 (20092010)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Income and corporation taxes: Franchise Tax Board: administration: electronic communication."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Beall"]
version_count: 8
action_count: 25
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2010-02-18"
last_action: "2010-08-13"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/d16748d5-1448-4b35-b3e9-b81f6bbddc38"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB2177"
source_hash: "8ca998e345ff9443f985e54962fa4e959ac64e35934314a08fe074412781ffc1"
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 2177 (20092010) — Income and corporation taxes: Franchise Tax Board: administration: electronic communication.

Existing law, among other things, requires the Franchise Tax Board to administer the Personal Income Tax Law and the Corporation Tax Law.

## Version chain

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

1. **02/18/10 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB2177&version=20090AB217799INT)
2. **03/23/10 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB2177&version=20090AB217798AMD)
3. **04/14/10 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB2177&version=20090AB217797AMD)
4. **05/03/10 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB2177&version=20090AB217796AMD)
5. **05/26/10 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB2177&version=20090AB217795AMD)
6. **08/13/10 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB2177&version=20090AB217793CHP)
7. **AB2177** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB2177)
8. **08/04/10 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB2177&version=20090AB217794ENR)

## Votes

- AB 2177 BEALL Consent Calendar Second Day Regular Session — **pass** (pass) · lower
- Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on Appropriations. — **pass** (pass) · lower
- Do pass, but re-refer to the Committee on Appropriations. — **pass** (pass) · upper
- Do pass as amended, to Consent Calendar. — **pass** (pass) · lower
- Special Consent #29 AB2177 Beall — **pass** (pass) · upper
- AB 2177 BEALL Concurrence in Senate Amendments — **pass** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Beall — primary (person)
- Blumenfield — coauthor (person)
- Ma — coauthor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2010-02-18** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
- **2010-02-21** From printer. May be heard in committee March 23.
- **2010-03-04** Referred to Com. on REV. & TAX. `referral-committee`
- **2010-03-23** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on REV. & TAX. Read second time and amended. `amendment-introduction, reading-2, amendment-passage, reading-1`
- **2010-03-24** Re-referred to Com. on REV. & TAX. `referral-committee`
- **2010-04-13** From committee: Amend, do pass as amended, and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 8. Noes 0.) (April 12). `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage`
- **2010-04-14** Read second time and amended. `amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1`
- **2010-04-15** Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `referral-committee`
- **2010-04-29** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. To Consent Calendar. (April 28). `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage`
- **2010-05-03** Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading. `amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1`
- **2010-05-04** Read second time. To Consent Calendar. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2010-05-06** Read third time, passed, and to Senate. (Ayes 74. Noes 0. Page 5054.) `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2010-05-06** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2010-05-20** Referred to Com. on REV. & TAX. `referral-committee`
- **2010-05-26** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on REV. & TAX. `amendment-introduction, reading-2, amendment-passage, referral-committee, reading-1`
- **2010-06-09** From committee: Do pass, and re-refer to Com. on APPR. Re-referred. (Ayes 3. Noes 0.) (June 9). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2010-06-29** From committee: Be placed on second reading file pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8. `committee-passage`
- **2010-06-30** Read second time. To third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2010-06-30** Ordered to Special Consent Calendar.
- **2010-07-01** Read third time, passed, and to Assembly. (Ayes 34. Noes 0. Page 4202.) `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2010-07-01** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after July 8 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
- **2010-08-02** Senate amendments concurred in. To enrollment. (Ayes 76. Noes 0. Page 5996.) `amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2010-08-06** Enrolled and to the Governor at 4:15 p.m.
- **2010-08-13** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2010-08-13** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 136, Statutes of 2010.

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/d16748d5-1448-4b35-b3e9-b81f6bbddc38`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).