---
type: "Bill"
title: "Budget Act of 2019."
description: "This bill would make appropriations for the support of state government for the 2019–20 fiscal year."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20192020"
identifier: "AB 74"
citation: "California AB 74 (20192020)"
classification: ["bill", "appropriation"]
subjects: ["Budget Act of 2019."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Ting"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 30
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2018-12-03"
last_action: "2019-06-27"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/6ee3a922-78eb-4b1d-a114-c0c545860863"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB74"
source_hash: "2cc4c61f10cd71a284d85d75a4c9b6d06ddd553a2edecac7d30f70e711e05012"
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 74 (20192020) — Budget Act of 2019.

This bill would make appropriations for the support of state government for the 2019–20 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=201920200AB74&version=20190AB7499INT)
2. **05/09/19 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB74&version=20190AB7498AMD)
3. **06/10/19 - Proposed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB74&version=20190AB7497AMD)
4. **06/27/19 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB74&version=20190AB7495CHP)
5. **AB74** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB74)
6. **06/13/19 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB74&version=20190AB7496ENR)

## Votes

- Conference Report AB74 Ting By Mitchell — **29–11** (pass) · upper
- AB 74 Ting Concurrence in Senate Amendments — **1–75** (fail) · lower
- AB 74 Ting Conference Report — **60–17** (pass) · lower
- 3rd Reading AB74 Ting By Mitchell — **28–10** (pass) · upper
- AB 74 Ting Assembly Third Reading — **54–13** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Ting — 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`
- **2019-04-04** Assembly Rule 96 suspended. (Ayes 53. Noes 15. Page 1032.)
- **2019-04-04** Withdrawn from committee.
- **2019-04-04** Ordered to second reading.
- **2019-04-08** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2019-04-11** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 54. Noes 13. Page 1163.) `passage, reading-3, reading-1`
- **2019-04-11** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2019-04-24** Referred to Com. on B. & F.R. `referral-committee`
- **2019-05-09** 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. `reading-1, reading-2, amendment-passage, referral-committee, amendment-introduction`
- **2019-05-13** Withdrawn from committee.
- **2019-05-13** (Ayes 28. Noes 8. Page 1026.)
- **2019-05-13** Ordered to second reading.
- **2019-05-14** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2019-05-20** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 28. Noes 10. Page 1166.). `passage, reading-3, reading-1`
- **2019-05-20** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after May 22 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
- **2019-05-22** Assembly refused to concur in Senate amendments. To Conference Committee. (Ayes 1. Noes 75. Page 1775.) `committee-failure`
- **2019-05-24** Joint Rules 28, 28.1, and 29 suspended. (Ayes 72. Noes 1. Page 1969.)
- **2019-05-24** Joint Rules 28, 28.1, and 29 suspended in the Senate.
- **2019-05-24** (Page 1304.)
- **2019-05-24** Assembly Members Ting (Vice Chair), Mayes, McCarty, Obernolte, and Weber appointed to Conference Committee.
- **2019-05-24** Senators Mitchell (Chair), Nielsen, Moorlach, Roth, and Skinner appointed to Conference Committee.
- **2019-06-10** From Conference Committee: Be adopted. Assembly (Ayes: 3 (Ting, McCarty, and Weber). Noes: 2 (Mayes and Obernolte). Senate (Ayes: 3 (Mitchell, Roth, and Skinner). Noes: 2 (Moorlach and Nielsen)).
- **2019-06-10** Conference committee report to print.
- **2019-06-13** Assembly adopts Conference Committee report. (Ayes 60. Noes 17. Page 2277.). `committee-passage`
- **2019-06-13** Senate adopted Conference Committee report. (Ayes 29. Noes 11. Page 1561.) `committee-passage`
- **2019-06-15** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 10:30 a.m.
- **2019-06-27** Approved by the Governor with item veto. `executive-signature, executive-veto-line-item`
- **2019-06-27** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 23, Statutes of 2019.

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/6ee3a922-78eb-4b1d-a114-c0c545860863`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).