---
type: "Bill"
title: "Department of Information Technology."
description: "Department of Information Technology."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "19992000"
identifier: "AB 1686"
citation: "California AB 1686 (19992000)"
classification: ["bill", "appropriation"]
subjects: ["Department of Information Technology."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Committee on Information Technology"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 24
vote_count: 8
first_action: "1999-03-18"
last_action: "1999-10-10"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/e1dfe74b-b96c-4b70-adb2-7f15302f2220"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=199920000AB1686"
source_hash: "eee64e072798681b3cd2ff76ef18b4f2a45d23badcbf397b46c94a5d1509bdda"
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 1686 (19992000) — Department of Information Technology.

## Version chain

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

1. **03/18/99 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=199920000AB1686&version=19990AB168699INT)
2. **04/22/99 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=199920000AB1686&version=19990AB168698AMD)
3. **09/08/99 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=199920000AB1686&version=19990AB168697AMD)
4. **10/10/99 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=199920000AB1686&version=19990AB168695CHP)
5. **AB1686** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=199920000AB1686)
6. **09/10/99 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=199920000AB1686&version=19990AB168696ENR)

## Votes

- Assembly 3rd Reading AB1686 Committee on I.T. (Dutra) By Polanco — **pass** (pass) · upper
- Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on Appropriations. — **pass** (pass) · legislature
- Placed on Appropriations suspense file. — **pass** (pass) · upper
- AB 1686 COMMITTEE ON INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY SPEC. CONSENT CALENDAR FIRST DAY CONCURRENCE — **pass** (pass) · lower
- AB 1686 INFO. TECH. THIRD READING BY DUTRA — **pass** (pass) · lower
- Do pass, but re-refer to the Committee on Appropriations Recommend Consent. — **pass** (pass) · upper
- Do pass as amended. — **pass** (pass) · upper
- Do pass. — **pass** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Committee on Information Technology — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **1999-10-10** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 873, Statutes of 1999.
- **1999-10-08** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **1999-09-24** Enrolled and to the Governor at 12:45 p.m.
- **1999-09-10** Senate amendments concurred in. To enrollment. (Ayes 68. Noes 0. Page 4480.) `committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage`
- **1999-09-09** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. Ordered to Special Consent Calendar.
- **1999-09-09** Read third time, passed, and to Assembly. (Ayes 40. Noes 0. Page 3131.) `passage, reading-3, reading-1`
- **1999-09-08** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 11. Noes 0.). Read second time, amended, and to third reading. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage, reading-2, reading-1`
- **1999-09-03** Joint Rule 61 (a) suspended.
- **1999-09-01** In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
- **1999-08-23** Joint Rule 61 (a) suspended.
- **1999-07-12** In committee: Placed on Appropriations suspense file.
- **1999-06-22** From committee: Do pass, and re-refer to Standing Committee on Appropriations with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. Re-referred. (Ayes 12. Noes 0.). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
- **1999-06-02** Referred to Standing Committee on Governmental Organization. `referral-committee`
- **1999-05-28** In Senate. Read first time. To Standing Committee on Rules for assignment. `reading-1`
- **1999-05-27** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 21. Noes 0.) (May 26). Read second time. To third reading. Read third time, passed, and to Senate. (Ayes 70. Noes 7. Page 2050.) `committee-passage, reading-3, passage, committee-passage-favorable, reading-2, reading-1`
- **1999-05-19** In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to Standing Committee on Appropriations suspense file. `referral-committee`
- **1999-04-27** Re-referred to Standing Committee on Appropriations. `referral-committee`
- **1999-04-22** Read second time and amended. `amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1`
- **1999-04-21** From committee: Amend, do pass as amended, and re-refer to Standing Committee on Appropriations (Ayes 5. Noes 0.) (April 20). `committee-passage, amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, referral-committee`
- **1999-04-12** In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
- **1999-04-08** Art. IV, Sec. 8(a) of the Constitution dispensed with and Joint Rule 55 suspended. Joint Rule 62(a), file notice waived.
- **1999-03-24** Referred to Com. on INFO. TECH. `referral-committee`
- **1999-03-22** From printer. May be heard in committee April 21.
- **1999-03-18** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/e1dfe74b-b96c-4b70-adb2-7f15302f2220`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).