---
type: "Bill"
title: "Property taxation: disabled veterans' exemption: eligibility letters."
description: "Existing property tax law provides, pursuant to the authorization of the California Constitution, a disabled veteran's property tax exemption for the principal place of residence of a veteran or a veteran's spouse, including an unmarried surviving spouse, if the veteran, because of an injury incurred in military service, is blind in both eyes, has lost the use of 2 or more limbs, or is totally disabled, as those terms are defined, or if the veteran has, as a result of a service-connected injury or disease, died while on active duty in military service."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20232024"
identifier: "SB 82"
citation: "California SB 82 (20232024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Property taxation", "disabled veterans' exemption", "eligibility letters"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Seyarto"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 28
vote_count: 8
first_action: "2023-01-13"
last_action: "2023-10-11"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/70c9c2c5-c71b-408a-adc7-230c617808f9"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB82"
source_hash: "20ad37800da70832079778046fd056675ae625a62ce4f2e0556115b151c83a41"
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 SB 82 (20232024) — Property taxation: disabled veterans' exemption: eligibility letters.

Existing property tax law provides, pursuant to the authorization of the California Constitution, a disabled veteran's property tax exemption for the principal place of residence of a veteran or a veteran's spouse, including an unmarried surviving spouse, if the veteran, because of an injury incurred in military service, is blind in both eyes, has lost the use of 2 or more limbs, or is totally disabled, as those terms are defined, or if the veteran has, as a result of a service-connected injury or disease, died while on active duty in military service.

## Version chain

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

1. **01/13/23 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB82&version=20230SB8299INT)
2. **03/14/23 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB82&version=20230SB8298AMD)
3. **08/28/23 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB82&version=20230SB8297AMD)
4. **10/11/23 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB82&version=20230SB8295CHP)
5. **SB82** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB82)
6. **09/13/23 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB82&version=20230SB8296ENR)

## Votes

- Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Military and Veterans Affairs] with the recommendation: To Consent Calendar — **8–0** (pass) · upper
- Do pass. To Consent Calendar. — **15–0** (pass) · lower
- SB 82 Seyarto Senate Third Reading By Hoover — **79–0** (pass) · lower
- Unfinished Business SB82 Seyarto Concurrence — **39–0** (pass) · upper
- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Revenue and Taxation] with recommendation: To Consent Calendar — **9–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **10–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with the recommendation: To Consent Calendar — **4–0** (pass) · upper
- Consent Calendar — **37–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Seyarto — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-01-13** Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. `introduction, reading-1`
- **2023-01-17** From printer. May be acted upon on or after February 13.
- **2023-01-25** Referred to Coms. on GOV. & F. and M. & V.A. `referral-committee`
- **2023-03-14** Set for hearing March 29.
- **2023-03-14** From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on GOV. & F. `amendment-passage, committee-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2023-03-29** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on M. & V.A. with recommendation: To consent calendar. (Ayes 8. Noes 0. Page 573.) (March 29). Re-referred to Com. on M. & V.A. `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
- **2023-04-12** Set for hearing April 24.
- **2023-04-24** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR with recommendation: To consent calendar. (Ayes 4. Noes 0. Page 854.) (April 24). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
- **2023-04-26** Set for hearing May 1.
- **2023-05-01** From committee: Be ordered to second reading pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8 and ordered to consent calendar. `committee-passage, reading-2`
- **2023-05-02** Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2023-05-04** Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 37. Noes 0. Page 1003.) Ordered to the Assembly. `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2023-05-04** In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. `reading-1`
- **2023-05-11** Referred to Coms. on M. & V.A. and REV. & TAX. `referral-committee`
- **2023-06-21** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on REV. & TAX. with recommendation: To consent calendar. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.) (June 20). Re-referred to Com. on REV. & TAX. `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
- **2023-07-11** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 10. Noes 0.) (July 10). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
- **2023-08-16** From committee: Do pass. Ordered to consent calendar. (Ayes 15. Noes 0.) (August 16). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-08-17** Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2023-08-24** From consent calendar on motion of Assembly Member Bryan.
- **2023-08-24** Ordered to third reading.
- **2023-08-28** Read third time and amended. `amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2023-08-28** Ordered to third reading.
- **2023-09-06** Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 79. Noes 0. Page 2956.) Ordered to the Senate. `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2023-09-06** In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
- **2023-09-11** Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 39. Noes 0. Page 2606.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling. `amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-09-15** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m.
- **2023-10-11** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2023-10-11** Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 773, Statutes of 2023. `became-law`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/70c9c2c5-c71b-408a-adc7-230c617808f9`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).