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Bill	Housing assistance.	Existing law requires the California Housing Finance Agency to administer the California Homebuyer's Downpayment Assistance Program for the purpose of assisting first-time low- and moderate-income home buyers utilizing existing mortgage financing. Existing law allows the agency to use not more than $75,000,000 of the funds available pursuant to that program to finance the acquisition of land and the construction and development of for-sale residential structures through short-term loans, as specified.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20132014	AB 637	California AB 637 (20132014)	bill	Housing assistance.	enacted	Atkins	6	23	6	2013-02-20	2013-10-12	openstates	ocd-bill/9a71bb89-b6d2-4cb4-9c5b-0de729f93654	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB637	ccfea6d4cc452113110b121416d3a1a87e64c712c96a4b4c82d6886d4834ae73	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 637 (20132014) — Housing assistance.

Existing law requires the California Housing Finance Agency to administer the California Homebuyer's Downpayment Assistance Program for the purpose of assisting first-time low- and moderate-income home buyers utilizing existing mortgage financing. Existing law allows the agency to use not more than $75,000,000 of the funds available pursuant to that program to finance the acquisition of land and the construction and development of for-sale residential structures through short-term loans, as specified.

Version chain

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

1. 02/20/13 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 04/24/13 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 08/20/13 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
4. 10/12/13 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
5. AB637 (committee substitute) — source
6. 09/05/13 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do pass. — 5–2 (pass) · lower
• AB 637 ATKINS Assembly Third Reading — 54–22 (pass) · lower
• 3rd Reading AB637 Atkins By Torres — 29–10 (pass) · upper
• AB 637 ATKINS Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 56–22 (pass) · lower
• Do pass. — 9–1 (pass) · upper
• Be referred to Committee on Housing and Community Development. — 11–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Atkins — primary (person)
• Torres — coauthor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2013-02-20 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2013-02-21 From printer. May be heard in committee March 23.
• 2013-03-04 Referred to Com. on H. & C.D. referral-committee
• 2013-04-01 In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
• 2013-04-24 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on H. & C.D. Read second time and amended. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1
• 2013-04-25 Re-referred to Com. on H. & C.D. referral-committee
• 2013-04-29 Re-referred to Com. on RLS. pursuant to Assembly Rule 96. referral-committee
• 2013-04-29 From committee: Be re-referred to Com. on H. & C.D. Re-referred. (Ayes 11. Noes 0.) (April 29). Re-referred to Com. on H. & C.D. referral-committee, committee-passage
• 2013-05-01 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 5. Noes 2.) (May 1). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2013-05-02 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2013-05-09 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 54. Noes 22. Page 1324.) reading-3, reading-1, passage
• 2013-05-09 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2013-05-23 Referred to Com. on T. & H. referral-committee
• 2013-06-18 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 9. Noes 1.) (June 18). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2013-06-19 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2013-08-20 Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. reading-3, reading-1, amendment-passage
• 2013-08-21 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2013-08-26 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 29. Noes 10. Page 1986.). reading-3, reading-1, passage
• 2013-08-26 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after August 28 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
• 2013-08-30 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 56. Noes 22. Page 2777.). committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage
• 2013-09-09 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3:30 p.m.
• 2013-10-12 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2013-10-12 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 770, Statutes of 2013.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/9a71bb89-b6d2-4cb4-9c5b-0de729f93654. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).