---
type: "Bill"
title: "California Tax Credit Allocation Committee: low-income housing credit: fines."
description: "Under existing law, the California Tax Credit Allocation Committee administers the federal and state low-income housing tax credit programs. Existing law requires the committee to allocate the housing credit on a specified regular basis and requires the committee to only allocate credits to a project if the housing sponsor enters into a specified regulatory agreement. Existing law authorizes the committee to make any allocation or reservation of the state's housing credit ceiling to a housing credit applicant subject to specified terms and conditions."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20152016"
identifier: "AB 1920"
citation: "California AB 1920 (20152016)"
classification: ["bill", "appropriation"]
subjects: ["California Tax Credit Allocation Committee: low-income housing credit: fines."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Chau"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 23
vote_count: 8
first_action: "2016-02-11"
last_action: "2016-09-25"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/00002831-7d45-4ee6-a785-95b26e2c2519"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB1920"
source_hash: "ad7d918cce88a72c28a4ed89381ba4f0e99635e97d7515de2417f43aecb0431f"
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 1920 (20152016) — California Tax Credit Allocation Committee: low-income housing credit: fines.

Under existing law, the California Tax Credit Allocation Committee administers the federal and state low-income housing tax credit programs. Existing law requires the committee to allocate the housing credit on a specified regular basis and requires the committee to only allocate credits to a project if the housing sponsor enters into a specified regulatory agreement. Existing law authorizes the committee to make any allocation or reservation of the state's housing credit ceiling to a housing credit applicant subject to specified terms and conditions.

## Version chain

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

1. **02/11/16 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB1920&version=20150AB192099INT)
2. **03/18/16 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB1920&version=20150AB192098AMD)
3. **06/08/16 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB1920&version=20150AB192097AMD)
4. **09/25/16 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB1920&version=20150AB192095CHP)
5. **AB1920** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB1920)
6. **08/25/16 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB1920&version=20150AB192096ENR)

## Votes

- Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with the recommendation: To Consent Calendar — **11–0** (pass) · upper
- Special Consent — **36–0** (pass) · upper
- Do pass. To Consent Calendar. — **20–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **9–0** (pass) · lower
- AB 1920 CHAU Concurrence in Senate Amendments — **80–0** (pass) · lower
- AB 1920 CHAU Consent Calendar Second Day — **78–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass — **7–0** (pass) · upper
- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Revenue and Taxation] — **7–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Chau — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2016-02-11** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
- **2016-02-12** From printer. May be heard in committee March 13.
- **2016-02-25** Referred to Coms. on H. & C.D. and REV. & TAX. `referral-committee`
- **2016-03-18** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on H. & C.D. Read second time and amended. `reading-2, amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1`
- **2016-03-28** Re-referred to Com. on H. & C.D. `referral-committee`
- **2016-03-30** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on REV. & TAX. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (March 30). Re-referred to Com. on REV. & TAX. `referral-committee, committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2016-04-19** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.) (April 18). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `referral-committee, committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2016-05-04** From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 20. Noes 0.) (May 4). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2016-05-05** Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2016-05-12** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 78. Noes 0. Page 4786.) `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2016-05-12** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2016-05-19** Referred to Com. on T. & H. `referral-committee`
- **2016-06-08** 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. `referral-committee, reading-2, amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1`
- **2016-06-15** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 11. Noes 0.) (June 14). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `referral-committee, committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2016-08-02** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (August 1). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2016-08-03** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2016-08-11** Ordered to special consent calendar.
- **2016-08-18** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 36. Noes 0. Page 5139.). `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2016-08-19** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after August 21 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
- **2016-08-24** Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 80. Noes 0. Page 6217.). `committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage`
- **2016-08-31** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.
- **2016-09-25** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2016-09-25** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 611, Statutes of 2016.

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/00002831-7d45-4ee6-a785-95b26e2c2519`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).