republic-os/legislation/us/states/ca/20112012/ab-1069.md

---
type: "Bill"
title: "Income taxes: credits: film: extension."
description: "The Personal Income Tax Law and the Corporation Tax Law authorize various credits against the taxes imposed by those laws, including a credit against those taxes for taxable years beginning on or after January 1, 2011, in an amount equal to a specified percentage of the qualified expenditures, as defined, attributable to the production of a qualified motion picture in California, or, where the qualified motion picture has relocated to California or is an independent film, as provided. Existing law requires the California Film Commission to allocate the tax credits until July 1, 2014, and limits the aggregate amount of credits that may be allocated to qualified motion pictures in any fiscal year to $100,000,000, through the 2013–14 fiscal year."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20112012"
identifier: "AB 1069"
citation: "California AB 1069 (20112012)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Income taxes: credits: film: extension."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Fuentes"]
version_count: 8
action_count: 34
vote_count: 9
first_action: "2011-02-18"
last_action: "2011-10-09"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/3c98e9b7-784a-4eab-a52e-7a9a2bc5fb4b"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB1069"
source_hash: "beb7fb2257688fc568128326f1195fcbd22643b436fdede686e6f66ce9049846"
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 1069 (20112012) — Income taxes: credits: film: extension.

The Personal Income Tax Law and the Corporation Tax Law authorize various credits against the taxes imposed by those laws, including a credit against those taxes for taxable years beginning on or after January 1, 2011, in an amount equal to a specified percentage of the qualified expenditures, as defined, attributable to the production of a qualified motion picture in California, or, where the qualified motion picture has relocated to California or is an independent film, as provided. Existing law requires the California Film Commission to allocate the tax credits until July 1, 2014, and limits the aggregate amount of credits that may be allocated to qualified motion pictures in any fiscal year to $100,000,000, through the 2013–14 fiscal year.

## Version chain

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

1. **02/18/11 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB1069&version=20110AB106999INT)
2. **05/18/11 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB1069&version=20110AB106998AMD)
3. **07/13/11 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB1069&version=20110AB106997AMD)
4. **08/31/11 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB1069&version=20110AB106996AMD)
5. **09/09/11 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB1069&version=20110AB106995AMD)
6. **10/09/11 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB1069&version=20110AB106993CHP)
7. **AB1069** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB1069)
8. **09/20/11 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB1069&version=20110AB106994ENR)

## Votes

- Do pass as amended, and re-refer to the Committee on Appropriations. — **9–0** (pass) · upper
- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on Revenue and Taxation. — **9–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on Appropriations. — **8–0** (pass) · lower
- AB 1069 FUENTES Concurrence in Senate Amendments — **74–1** (pass) · lower
- Do pass as amended. — **9–0** (pass) · upper
- Placed on Appropriations Suspense file. — **8–0** (pass) · upper
- W/O REF. TO FILE AB1069 Fuentes By Padilla — **34–2** (pass) · upper
- AB 1069 FUENTES Assembly Third Reading — **77–1** (pass) · lower
- Do pass. — **16–1** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Fuentes — primary (person)
- Alquist — coauthor (person)
- Butler — coauthor (person)
- Gatto — principal coauthor (person)
- Hall — principal coauthor (person)
- Ma — coauthor (person)
- Pavley — coauthor (person)
- Portantino — coauthor (person)
- Price — coauthor (person)
- Smyth — principal coauthor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2011-02-18** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
- **2011-02-20** From printer. May be heard in committee March 22.
- **2011-03-14** Referred to Coms. on REV. & TAX. and A.,E.,S.,T., & I.M. `referral-committee`
- **2011-03-31** Re-referred to Coms. on A.,E.,S.,T., & I.M. and REV. & TAX. pursuant to Assembly Rule 96. `referral-committee`
- **2011-04-12** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on REV. & TAX. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.) (April 12). Re-referred to Com. on REV. & TAX. `referral-committee, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2011-04-26** In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
- **2011-05-02** In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
- **2011-05-16** In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to REV. & TAX. suspense file. `referral-committee`
- **2011-05-17** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 8. Noes 0.) (May 16). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `referral-committee, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2011-05-18** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on APPR. Read second time and amended. `reading-2, amendment-introduction, reading-1, amendment-passage`
- **2011-05-19** Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `referral-committee`
- **2011-05-27** In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to APPR. suspense file. `referral-committee`
- **2011-05-27** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 16. Noes 1.) (May 27). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2011-05-27** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2011-05-31** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 77. Noes 1. Page 1659.) `reading-3, reading-1, passage`
- **2011-05-31** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2011-06-08** Referred to Com. on GOV. & F. `referral-committee`
- **2011-07-12** From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.) (July 6). `amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2011-07-13** Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `reading-2, reading-1, amendment-passage, referral-committee`
- **2011-08-30** From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.) (August 25). `amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2011-08-31** Read second time and amended. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1, amendment-passage`
- **2011-09-07** Re-referred to Com. on RLS. `referral-committee`
- **2011-09-09** Senate Rule 29.3(b) suspended. (Ayes 24. Noes 15. Page 2444.)
- **2011-09-09** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on RLS. `reading-2, amendment-introduction, reading-1, amendment-passage, referral-committee`
- **2011-09-09** Withdrawn from committee.
- **2011-09-09** (Ayes 24. Noes 15. Page 2445.)
- **2011-09-09** Ordered to third reading.
- **2011-09-10** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 34. Noes 2. Page 2484.). `reading-3, reading-1, passage`
- **2011-09-10** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending.
- **2011-09-10** Assembly Rule 63 suspended. (Page 3268.)
- **2011-09-10** Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 74. Noes 1. Page 3268.). `committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage`
- **2011-09-23** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3:30 p.m.
- **2011-10-09** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2011-10-09** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 731, Statutes of 2011.

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/3c98e9b7-784a-4eab-a52e-7a9a2bc5fb4b`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).