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type: "Bill"
title: "School facilities: charter schools."
description: "Existing law assigns to the California School Finance Authority a specified amount of the state's 2010 federal tax credit bond volume cap for qualified school construction bonds, to be issued for the benefit of charter schools, or to be further assigned and distributed to one or more issuers in the state for the benefit of charter schools, as the California School Finance Authority determines. Existing law authorizes a charter school to apply for the federal qualified school construction bond volume cap if specified criteria are met."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20112012"
identifier: "AB 1859"
citation: "California AB 1859 (20112012)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["School facilities: charter schools."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Buchanan"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 20
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2012-02-22"
last_action: "2012-07-10"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/9046fc36-79f0-4a85-a622-5e4b3f988d02"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB1859"
source_hash: "8b806b7e0f97a996523b469e528bb683f115ff5cb5e664e2390e44e51eadc7bc"
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 1859 (20112012) — School facilities: charter schools.
Existing law assigns to the California School Finance Authority a specified amount of the state's 2010 federal tax credit bond volume cap for qualified school construction bonds, to be issued for the benefit of charter schools, or to be further assigned and distributed to one or more issuers in the state for the benefit of charter schools, as the California School Finance Authority determines. Existing law authorizes a charter school to apply for the federal qualified school construction bond volume cap if specified criteria are met.
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **02/22/12 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB1859&version=20110AB185999INT)
2. **03/29/12 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB1859&version=20110AB185998AMD)
3. **04/30/12 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB1859&version=20110AB185997AMD)
4. **07/10/12 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB1859&version=20110AB185995CHP)
5. **AB1859** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB1859)
6. **06/26/12 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB1859&version=20110AB185996ENR)
## Votes
- Do pass. — **80** (pass) · upper
- Special Consent #13 AB1859 Buchanan By Liu — **330** (pass) · upper
- AB 1859 BUCHANAN Consent Calendar Second Day — **750** (pass) · lower
- Do pass, to Consent Calendar. — **100** (pass) · lower
## Sponsors
- Buchanan — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2012-02-22** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
- **2012-02-23** From printer. May be heard in committee March 24.
- **2012-03-29** Referred to Com. on ED. `referral-committee`
- **2012-03-29** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on ED. Read second time and amended. `reading-2, amendment-introduction, reading-1, amendment-passage`
- **2012-04-09** Re-referred to Com. on ED. `referral-committee`
- **2012-04-30** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on ED. Read second time and amended. `reading-2, amendment-introduction, reading-1, amendment-passage`
- **2012-05-01** Re-referred to Com. on ED. `referral-committee`
- **2012-05-10** From committee: Do pass. To consent calendar. (Ayes 10. Noes 0.) (May 9). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2012-05-14** Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2012-05-17** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 75. Noes 0. Page 4890.) `reading-3, reading-1, passage`
- **2012-05-17** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2012-05-24** Referred to Com. on ED. `referral-committee`
- **2012-06-13** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 8. Noes 0.) (June 13). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2012-06-14** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2012-06-20** Ordered to special consent calendar.
- **2012-06-25** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 33. Noes 0. Page 4058.). `reading-3, reading-1, passage`
- **2012-06-25** In Assembly. Ordered to Engrossing and Enrolling. `committee-passage`
- **2012-06-29** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 2 p.m.
- **2012-07-10** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2012-07-10** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 80, Statutes of 2012.
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/9046fc36-79f0-4a85-a622-5e4b3f988d02`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).