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Bill	Excise taxes: claim for refund: timely filed claims.	Existing law establishes procedures by which a person may claim a refund for an overpayment of the taxes, fees, and surcharges imposed by the Sales and Use Tax Law, the Use Fuel Tax Law, the Cigarette and Tobacco Products Tax Law, the Alcoholic Beverage Tax Law, the Energy Resources Surcharge Law, the Emergency Telephone Users Surcharge Act, the Hazardous Substances Tax Law, the Integrated Waste Management Fee Law, the Oil Spill Response, Prevention, and Administration Fees Law, the Underground Storage Tank Maintenance Fee Law, and the Diesel Fuel Tax Law, and of taxes, fees, and surcharges imposed in accordance with the Fee Collection Procedures Law. Existing law generally requires that a claim be filed within 3 years after specified periods in which the overpayment was made.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20152016	AB 1856	California AB 1856 (20152016)	bill	Excise taxes: claim for refund: timely filed claims.	enacted	Dababneh	7	23	5	2016-02-10	2016-07-25	openstates	ocd-bill/a988f9fd-2931-4c69-ae5e-0730acadb9d7	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB1856	fca96f52254882c7e88cf58fa788e0b0eec16e8e05bfb9b26267acb2928bf74a	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 1856 (20152016) — Excise taxes: claim for refund: timely filed claims.

Existing law establishes procedures by which a person may claim a refund for an overpayment of the taxes, fees, and surcharges imposed by the Sales and Use Tax Law, the Use Fuel Tax Law, the Cigarette and Tobacco Products Tax Law, the Alcoholic Beverage Tax Law, the Energy Resources Surcharge Law, the Emergency Telephone Users Surcharge Act, the Hazardous Substances Tax Law, the Integrated Waste Management Fee Law, the Oil Spill Response, Prevention, and Administration Fees Law, the Underground Storage Tank Maintenance Fee Law, and the Diesel Fuel Tax Law, and of taxes, fees, and surcharges imposed in accordance with the Fee Collection Procedures Law. Existing law generally requires that a claim be filed within 3 years after specified periods in which the overpayment was made.

Version chain

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

1. 02/10/16 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 03/17/16 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 03/29/16 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
4. 04/06/16 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
5. 07/25/16 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
6. AB1856 (committee substitute) — source
7. 07/07/16 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Consent Calendar 2nd — 37–0 (pass) · upper
• AB 1856 DABABNEH Consent Calendar Second Day — 76–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 9–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass. To Consent Calendar. — 16–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with the recommendation: To Consent Calendar — 7–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Dababneh — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2016-02-10 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2016-02-11 From printer. May be heard in committee March 12.
• 2016-03-14 Referred to Com. on REV. & TAX. referral-committee
• 2016-03-17 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, amendment-passage, reading-1
• 2016-03-28 Re-referred to Com. on REV. & TAX. referral-committee
• 2016-03-29 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, amendment-passage, reading-1
• 2016-03-30 Re-referred to Com. on REV. & TAX. referral-committee
• 2016-04-06 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, amendment-passage, reading-1
• 2016-04-07 Re-referred to Com. on REV. & TAX. referral-committee
• 2016-04-12 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.) (April 11). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee, committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2016-04-20 From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 16. Noes 0.) (April 20). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2016-04-21 Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. reading-2, reading-1
• 2016-04-28 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 76. Noes 0. Page 4593.) reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2016-04-28 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2016-05-05 Referred to Coms. on GOV. & F. and APPR. referral-committee
• 2016-06-15 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (June 15). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee, committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2016-06-27 From committee: Be placed on second reading file pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8 and ordered to consent calendar. committee-passage
• 2016-06-28 Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. reading-2, reading-1
• 2016-06-30 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 37. Noes 0. Page 4650.). reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2016-06-30 In Assembly. Ordered to Engrossing and Enrolling. committee-passage
• 2016-07-11 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4:30 p.m.
• 2016-07-25 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2016-07-25 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 98, Statutes of 2016.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/a988f9fd-2931-4c69-ae5e-0730acadb9d7. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).