republic-os/legislation/us/states/ca/19992000/ab-2879.md

---
type: "Bill"
title: "Income Taxes: credit: teacher retention."
description: "Income Taxes: credit: teacher retention."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "19992000"
identifier: "AB 2879"
citation: "California AB 2879 (19992000)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Income Taxes: credit: teacher retention."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Jackson"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 18
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2000-03-06"
last_action: "2000-07-05"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/8a70a584-0621-4c71-a5d7-87826864b555"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=199920000AB2879"
source_hash: "494437e5f85a7a9e51a84760d3ae0f6a091ef3179a8ccc93ad4c25922f39d8ae"
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 2879 (19992000) — Income Taxes: credit: teacher retention.

## Version chain

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

1. **03/06/00 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=199920000AB2879&version=19990AB287999INT)
2. **05/25/00 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=199920000AB2879&version=19990AB287998AMD)
3. **06/15/00 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=199920000AB2879&version=19990AB287997AMD)
4. **07/05/00 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=199920000AB2879&version=19990AB287995CHP)
5. **AB2879** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=199920000AB2879)
6. **06/22/00 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=199920000AB2879&version=19990AB287996ENR)

## Votes

- W/O REF. TO FILE AB2879 Committee on Budget (Ducheny) Peace — **pass** (pass) · upper
- AB 2879 JACKSON CONCURRENCE — **pass** (pass) · lower
- AB 2879 BUDGET THIRD READING — **pass** (pass) · lower
- AB 2879 JACKSON CONCURRENCE — **fail** (fail) · lower
- Do pass. — **pass** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Jackson — primary (person)
- Alarcon — coauthor (person)
- Alquist — coauthor (person)
- Calderon — coauthor (person)
- Cardoza — coauthor (person)
- Cedillo — coauthor (person)
- Correa — coauthor (person)
- Costa — coauthor (person)
- Davis — coauthor (person)
- Dutra — coauthor (person)
- Figueroa — coauthor (person)
- Gallegos — coauthor (person)
- Hertzberg — coauthor (person)
- Honda — coauthor (person)
- Hughes — coauthor (person)
- Knox — coauthor (person)
- Longville — coauthor (person)
- Lowenthal — coauthor (person)
- McPherson — coauthor (person)
- Nakano — coauthor (person)
- O'Connell — coauthor (person)
- Rainey — coauthor (person)
- Reyes — coauthor (person)
- Romero — coauthor (person)
- Schiff — coauthor (person)
- Shelley — coauthor (person)
- Solis — coauthor (person)
- Soto — coauthor (person)
- Vasconcellos — coauthor (person)
- Villaraigosa — coauthor (person)
- Vincent — coauthor (person)
- Washington — coauthor (person)
- Wiggins — coauthor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2000-07-05** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 75, Statutes of 2000.
- **2000-07-05** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2000-06-28** Enrolled and to the Governor at 10:30 a.m.
- **2000-06-22** Reconsideration waived. Action rescinded whereby reconsideration was waived. Reconsideration granted. (Page 7310.) Senate amendments concurred in. (Ayes 56. Noes 11. page 7323.) To enrollment. `committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage`
- **2000-06-21** Motion to reconsider continued until June 22. Special Order of Business continued.
- **2000-06-20** Motion to reconsider continued until June 21. Special Order of Business Continued.
- **2000-06-19** Motion to reconsider continued until June 20. Special Order of Business continued.
- **2000-06-16** Motion to reconsider made by Assembly Member Shelley. Made Special Order for Monday, June 19, at 11 a.m.
- **2000-06-15** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after June 17 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77. Assembly Rule 77 suspended. Senate amendments concurred in. (Ayes 44. Noes 21. Page 7178.) `committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage`
- **2000-06-15** Art. IV, Sec. 8(b) of the Constitution suspended. Senate Rule 29.3 suspended. Senate Rule 29.10 suspended. Withdrawn from committee. Read second time and amended. Read third time, passed, and to Assembly. (Ayes 27. Noes 1. Page 5103.) `amendment-passage, reading-3, passage, reading-2, reading-1`
- **2000-06-06** Referred to Standing Committee on Rules. `referral-committee`
- **2000-05-26** In Senate. Read first time. To Standing Committee on Rules for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2000-05-26** Read third time, passed, and to Senate. (Ayes 46. Noes 12. Page 6634.) `passage, reading-3, reading-1`
- **2000-05-25** Read second time. To third reading. Read third time, amended, and returned to third reading. `amendment-passage, reading-3, reading-2, reading-1`
- **2000-05-24** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 15. Noes 0.) (May 23). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2000-03-23** Referred to Standing Committee on Budget. `referral-committee`
- **2000-03-07** From printer. May be heard in committee April 6.
- **2000-03-06** 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/8a70a584-0621-4c71-a5d7-87826864b555`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).