---
type: "Bill"
title: "Income and corporation taxes: Franchise Tax Board: administration: electronic communication."
description: "Existing law authorizes the Franchise Tax Board to implement an alternative communication method that would allow the Franchise Tax Board to provide notification to the taxpayer in a preferred electronic communication method designated by the taxpayer that a specified notice, statement, bill, or other communication is available for viewing in the taxpayer's folder on the Franchise Tax Board's Internet Web site, and would allow the taxpayer to file a protest, notification, and other communication to the Franchise Tax Board in a secure manner. This provision ceases to be operative and is repealed on January 1, 2018."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20172018"
identifier: "AB 1720"
citation: "California AB 1720 (20172018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Income and corporation taxes: Franchise Tax Board: administration: electronic communication."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Committee on Revenue and Taxation"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 17
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2017-03-16"
last_action: "2017-08-07"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/4cda0dbb-2385-49cb-b8ac-d360f3cf2eec"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB1720"
source_hash: "654c80308e5d8ba2fd9e4a4aa45869aa1971ff9a437dffb4836290fd74fc07ef"
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 1720 (20172018) — Income and corporation taxes: Franchise Tax Board: administration: electronic communication.

Existing law authorizes the Franchise Tax Board to implement an alternative communication method that would allow the Franchise Tax Board to provide notification to the taxpayer in a preferred electronic communication method designated by the taxpayer that a specified notice, statement, bill, or other communication is available for viewing in the taxpayer's folder on the Franchise Tax Board's Internet Web site, and would allow the taxpayer to file a protest, notification, and other communication to the Franchise Tax Board in a secure manner. This provision ceases to be operative and is repealed on January 1, 2018.

## Version chain

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

1. **03/16/17 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB1720&version=20170AB172099INT)
2. **08/07/17 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB1720&version=20170AB172097CHP)
3. **AB1720** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB1720)
4. **07/21/17 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB1720&version=20170AB172098ENR)

## Votes

- Do pass. To Consent Calendar. — **16–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with recommendation: To Consent Calendar — **10–0** (pass) · lower
- AB 1720 REV. & TAX. Consent Calendar Second Day — **77–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with the recommendation: To Consent Calendar — **7–0** (pass) · upper
- Consent Calendar 2nd AB1720 REV. & TAX. — **38–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Committee on Revenue and Taxation — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2017-03-16** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
- **2017-03-17** From printer. May be heard in committee April 16.
- **2017-03-30** Referred to Com. on REV. & TAX. `referral-committee`
- **2017-04-25** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 10. Noes 0.) (April 24). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2017-05-03** From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 16. Noes 0.) (May 3). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2017-05-04** Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2017-05-11** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 77. Noes 0. Page 1486.) `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2017-05-11** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2017-05-24** Referred to Com. on GOV. & F. `referral-committee`
- **2017-07-05** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (July 5). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2017-07-17** From committee: Be placed on second reading file pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8 and ordered to consent calendar. `committee-passage`
- **2017-07-18** Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2017-07-20** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 38. Noes 0. Page 2130.). `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2017-07-20** In Assembly. Ordered to Engrossing and Enrolling. `committee-passage`
- **2017-08-01** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 12:30 p.m.
- **2017-08-07** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2017-08-07** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 177, Statutes of 2017.

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/4cda0dbb-2385-49cb-b8ac-d360f3cf2eec`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).