---
type: "Bill"
title: "Budget Act of 2018."
description: "The Budget Act of 2018 made appropriations for the support of state government for the 2018–19 fiscal year."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20192020"
identifier: "AB 72"
citation: "California AB 72 (20192020)"
classification: ["bill", "appropriation"]
subjects: ["Budget Act of 2018."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Committee on Budget"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 19
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2018-12-03"
last_action: "2019-02-13"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/b1ea0c04-1e23-4e6b-b016-03e79f664b68"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB72"
source_hash: "0cd91c6488640bb03bde9e1571eebc9e38cc779c12306a272fa0dd470f0eca54"
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 72 (20192020) — Budget Act of 2018.

The Budget Act of 2018 made appropriations for the support of state government for the 2018–19 fiscal year.

## Version chain

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

1. **12/03/18 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB72&version=20190AB7299INT)
2. **01/28/19 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB72&version=20190AB7298AMD)
3. **01/30/19 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB72&version=20190AB7297AMD)
4. **02/13/19 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB72&version=20190AB7295CHP)
5. **AB72** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB72)
6. **02/11/19 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB72&version=20190AB7296ENR)

## Votes

- Do pass — **15–0** (pass) · upper
- Do pass as amended. — **28–0** (pass) · lower
- 3rd Reading AB72 BUDGET (Ting) By Mitchell — **37–0** (pass) · upper
- AB 72 BUDGET Assembly Third Reading By TING — **74–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Committee on Budget — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2018-12-03** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
- **2018-12-04** From printer. May be heard in committee January 3.
- **2019-01-24** Referred to Com. on BUDGET. `referral-committee`
- **2019-01-28** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on BUDGET. Read second time and amended. `reading-1, reading-2, amendment-passage, amendment-introduction`
- **2019-01-29** Re-referred to Com. on BUDGET. `referral-committee`
- **2019-01-29** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 28. Noes 0.) (January 29). `amendment-passage, committee-passage, amendment-introduction`
- **2019-01-30** Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading. `amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2`
- **2019-01-31** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2019-02-04** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 74. Noes 0. Page 277.) `passage, reading-3, reading-1`
- **2019-02-04** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2019-02-06** Referred to Com. on B. & F.R. `referral-committee`
- **2019-02-07** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 15. Noes 0.) (February 7). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2019-02-07** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2019-02-11** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 37. Noes 0. Page 159.). `passage, reading-3, reading-1`
- **2019-02-11** In Assembly. Ordered to Engrossing and Enrolling. `committee-passage`
- **2019-02-11** Enrolled measure version corrected.
- **2019-02-12** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 9:45 a.m.
- **2019-02-13** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2019-02-13** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 1, Statutes of 2019.

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/b1ea0c04-1e23-4e6b-b016-03e79f664b68`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).