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Bill	State Board of Equalization: returns and payment: extension: disaster.	Existing law authorizes the State Board of Equalization for good cause to extend the time, not to exceed one month, for a taxpayer, and to extend the time for more than one month for specified persons if a budget for the state has not been adopted by a specified date, to submit any return or pay any amount required to be paid under provisions of the Sales and Use Tax Law, Motor Vehicle Fuel Tax Law, Use Fuel Tax Law, Cigarette and Tobacco Products Tax Law, Alcoholic Beverage Tax Law, Timber Yield Tax, Energy Resources Surcharge Law, Emergency Telephone Users Surcharge Act, Hazardous Substances Tax Law, Integrated Waste Management Fee Law, Oil Spill Response, Prevention, and Administration Fees Law, Underground Storage Tank Maintenance Fee Law, Fee Collection Procedures Law, and Diesel Fuel Tax Law, under specified conditions.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20152016	AB 1559	California AB 1559 (20152016)	bill	State Board of Equalization: returns and payment: extension: disaster.	enacted	Dodd	7	27	7	2016-01-04	2016-09-09	openstates	ocd-bill/a1e8f26a-57f3-433c-9b51-c8c0bab9cf26	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB1559	eeebc0f5cdedc9e74039606045827e69d3a17baf31b6e01bff1b82277dd01403	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 1559 (20152016) — State Board of Equalization: returns and payment: extension: disaster.

Existing law authorizes the State Board of Equalization for good cause to extend the time, not to exceed one month, for a taxpayer, and to extend the time for more than one month for specified persons if a budget for the state has not been adopted by a specified date, to submit any return or pay any amount required to be paid under provisions of the Sales and Use Tax Law, Motor Vehicle Fuel Tax Law, Use Fuel Tax Law, Cigarette and Tobacco Products Tax Law, Alcoholic Beverage Tax Law, Timber Yield Tax, Energy Resources Surcharge Law, Emergency Telephone Users Surcharge Act, Hazardous Substances Tax Law, Integrated Waste Management Fee Law, Oil Spill Response, Prevention, and Administration Fees Law, Underground Storage Tank Maintenance Fee Law, Fee Collection Procedures Law, and Diesel Fuel Tax Law, under specified conditions.

Version chain

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

1. 01/04/16 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 04/13/16 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 06/21/16 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
4. 08/08/16 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
5. 09/09/16 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
6. AB1559 (committee substitute) — source
7. 08/26/16 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• 3rd Reading AB1559 Dodd By Fuller Urgency Clause — 38–0 (pass) · upper
• AB 1559 DODD Concurrence - Urgency Added — 80–0 (pass) · lower
• AB 1559 DODD Consent Calendar Second Day — 79–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass. To Consent Calendar. — 19–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended, and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with recommendation: To Consent Calendar — 9–0 (pass) · lower
• With recommendation: That Senate amendments be concurred in. — 9–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 7–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Dodd — primary (person)
• Bigelow — coauthor (person)
• Fuller — coauthor (person)
• Huff — coauthor (person)
• Kim — coauthor (person)
• McGuire — principal coauthor (person)
• Nielsen — coauthor (person)
• Obernolte — coauthor (person)
• Wilk — coauthor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2016-01-04 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2016-01-05 From printer. May be heard in committee February 4.
• 2016-02-01 Referred to Com. on REV. & TAX. referral-committee
• 2016-03-10 In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
• 2016-04-04 In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
• 2016-04-12 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.) (April 11). amendment-introduction, committee-passage, amendment-passage
• 2016-04-13 Read second time and amended. amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1
• 2016-04-14 Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee
• 2016-04-27 From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 19. Noes 0.) (April 27). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2016-04-28 Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. reading-2, reading-1
• 2016-05-05 Read third time. Urgency clause adopted. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 79. Noes 0. Page 4684.). reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2016-05-05 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2016-05-12 Referred to Com. on GOV. & F. referral-committee
• 2016-06-20 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (June 15). amendment-introduction, committee-passage, amendment-passage
• 2016-06-21 Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee, reading-2, amendment-passage, reading-1
• 2016-08-01 From committee: Be placed on second reading file pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8. committee-passage
• 2016-08-02 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2016-08-08 Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. reading-3, amendment-passage, reading-1
• 2016-08-09 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2016-08-15 Read third time. Urgency clause adopted. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 38. Noes 0. Page 4979.). reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2016-08-16 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after August 18 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
• 2016-08-18 Re-referred to Com. on REV. & TAX. pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.2. referral-committee
• 2016-08-23 From committee: That the Senate amendments be concurred in. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.) (August 23). committee-passage
• 2016-08-24 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 80. Noes 0. Page 6220.). committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage
• 2016-08-31 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.
• 2016-09-09 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2016-09-09 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 257, Statutes of 2016.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/a1e8f26a-57f3-433c-9b51-c8c0bab9cf26. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).