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Bill	Federal earned income tax credit: notification: state departments and agencies.	The federal income tax law authorizes a refundable earned income tax credit for certain low-income individuals who have earned income and who meet certain other requirements. Existing California law requires an employer, as defined, to notify all employees that they may be eligible for the federal earned income tax credit (EITC) , as specified.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20112012	AB 509	California AB 509 (20112012)	bill	Federal earned income tax credit: notification: state departments and agencies.	enacted	Skinner	9	25	8	2011-02-15	2011-10-04	openstates	ocd-bill/17fe9cf8-aca8-48ec-94a8-7aa11876b8e7	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB509	a5ff462b433bace9b8011120e34eca240820a15d7b897e6f46a7c28eefb6caca	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 509 (20112012) — Federal earned income tax credit: notification: state departments and agencies.

The federal income tax law authorizes a refundable earned income tax credit for certain low-income individuals who have earned income and who meet certain other requirements. Existing California law requires an employer, as defined, to notify all employees that they may be eligible for the federal earned income tax credit (EITC) , as specified.

Version chain

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

1. 02/15/11 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 03/25/11 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 05/27/11 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
4. 06/21/11 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
5. 08/15/11 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
6. 08/30/11 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
7. 10/04/11 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
8. AB509 (committee substitute) — source
9. 09/16/11 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do pass as amended. — 12–5 (pass) · lower
• Placed on Appropriations Suspense file. — 8–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass, but re-refer to the Committee on Appropriations. — 6–3 (pass) · upper
• AB 509 SKINNER Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 52–26 (pass) · lower
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on Appropriations. — 6–2 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended. — 6–3 (pass) · upper
• 3rd Reading AB509 Skinner By Vargas — 25–15 (pass) · upper
• AB 509 SKINNER Assembly Third Reading — 52–24 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Skinner — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2011-02-15 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2011-02-16 From printer. May be heard in committee March 18.
• 2011-03-25 Referred to Com. on REV. & TAX. referral-committee
• 2011-03-25 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on REV. & TAX. Read second time and amended. reading-2, amendment-introduction, reading-1, amendment-passage
• 2011-03-29 Re-referred to Com. on REV. & TAX. referral-committee
• 2011-05-03 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 6. Noes 2.) (May 2). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2011-05-11 In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to APPR. suspense file. referral-committee
• 2011-05-27 From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 12. Noes 5.) (May 27). amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2011-05-27 Read second time and amended. Ordered to second reading. reading-2, reading-1, amendment-passage
• 2011-05-31 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2011-06-01 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 52. Noes 24. Page 1732.) reading-3, reading-1, passage
• 2011-06-01 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2011-06-08 Referred to Com. on GOV. & F. referral-committee
• 2011-06-21 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on GOV. & F. reading-2, amendment-introduction, reading-1, amendment-passage, referral-committee
• 2011-06-29 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 6. Noes 3.) (June 29). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2011-08-15 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on APPR. reading-2, amendment-introduction, reading-1, amendment-passage, referral-committee
• 2011-08-15 In committee: Referred to APPR. suspense file. referral-committee
• 2011-08-29 From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 6. Noes 3.) (August 25). amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2011-08-30 Read second time and amended. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1, amendment-passage
• 2011-09-06 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 25. Noes 15. Page 2317.). reading-3, reading-1, passage
• 2011-09-07 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending.
• 2011-09-08 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 52. Noes 26. Page 3065.). committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage
• 2011-09-20 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m.
• 2011-10-04 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2011-10-04 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 452, Statutes of 2011.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/17fe9cf8-aca8-48ec-94a8-7aa11876b8e7. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).