---
type: "Bill"
title: "Personal income tax: voluntary contributions: ALS/Lou Gehrig's Disease Research Fund."
description: "Existing personal income tax allow individual taxpayers to contribute amounts in excess of their tax liability for the support of specified funds, including the ALS/Lou Gehrig's Disease Research Fund. Those laws repeal the ALS/Lou Gehrig's Disease Research Fund on January 1, 2013, or on the taxable year beginning on or after January 1 of the calendar year in which the Franchise Tax Board estimates, by September 1, that the contributions made on returns filed in that calendar year will be less than a minimum contribution amount, as defined, whichever occurs first."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20112012"
identifier: "SB 583"
citation: "California SB 583 (20112012)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Personal income tax: voluntary contributions: ALS/Lou Gehrig's Disease Research Fund."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Vargas"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 21
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2011-02-17"
last_action: "2011-10-09"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/2c6cfba0-28ed-49bc-b1b2-5a8d987c505e"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201120120SB583"
source_hash: "0b8c6eac1f5860a4b30a7e10eeaf4fb5bbf2bd948a22edddb86e97139d5b6bfd"
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 583 (20112012) — Personal income tax: voluntary contributions: ALS/Lou Gehrig's Disease Research Fund.

Existing personal income tax allow individual taxpayers to contribute amounts in excess of their tax liability for the support of specified funds, including the ALS/Lou Gehrig's Disease Research Fund. Those laws repeal the ALS/Lou Gehrig's Disease Research Fund on January 1, 2013, or on the taxable year beginning on or after January 1 of the calendar year in which the Franchise Tax Board estimates, by September 1, that the contributions made on returns filed in that calendar year will be less than a minimum contribution amount, as defined, whichever occurs first.

## Version chain

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

1. **02/17/11 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120SB583&version=20110SB58399INT)
2. **05/02/11 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120SB583&version=20110SB58398AMD)
3. **05/11/11 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120SB583&version=20110SB58397AMD)
4. **10/09/11 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120SB583&version=20110SB58395CHP)
5. **SB583** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201120120SB583)
6. **08/31/11 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120SB583&version=20110SB58396ENR)

## Votes

- Do pass, but re-refer to the Committee on Appropriations. — **9–0** (pass) · upper
- Do pass. — **17–0** (pass) · lower
- 3rd Reading — **38–0** (pass) · upper
- SB 583 Vargas Senate Third Reading By GARRICK — **77–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on Appropriations. — **7–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Vargas — primary (person)
- Cook — coauthor (person)
- DeSaulnier — coauthor (person)
- Emmerson — coauthor (person)
- Garrick — coauthor (person)
- Silva — coauthor (person)
- Steinberg — principal coauthor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2011-02-17** Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. `introduction, reading-1`
- **2011-02-18** From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 20.
- **2011-03-03** Referred to Com. on GOV. & F. `referral-committee`
- **2011-03-16** Set for hearing April 27.
- **2011-04-27** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 9. Noes 0. Page 762.) (April 27). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `referral-committee, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2011-04-29** Set for hearing May 9.
- **2011-05-02** From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `reading-2, reading-1, committee-passage, amendment-passage, referral-committee`
- **2011-05-10** From committee: Be placed on second reading file pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8 and be amended. `committee-passage, amendment-passage`
- **2011-05-11** Read second time and amended. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1, amendment-passage`
- **2011-05-19** Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 38. Noes 0. Page 1037.) Ordered to the Assembly. `reading-3, reading-1, passage`
- **2011-05-19** In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. `reading-1`
- **2011-05-27** Referred to Com. on REV. & TAX. `referral-committee`
- **2011-06-14** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (June 13). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `referral-committee, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2011-07-07** Set, first hearing. Referred to APPR. suspense file. `referral-committee`
- **2011-08-26** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 17. Noes 0.) (August 25). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2011-08-26** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2011-08-29** Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 77. Noes 0. Page 2645.) Ordered to the Senate. `reading-3, reading-1, passage`
- **2011-08-29** In Senate. Ordered to engrossing and enrolling.
- **2011-09-01** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m.
- **2011-10-09** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2011-10-09** Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 711, Statutes of 2011.

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/2c6cfba0-28ed-49bc-b1b2-5a8d987c505e`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).