republic-os/legislation/us/states/ca/20152016/ab-313.md

---
type: "Bill"
title: "Enhanced infrastructure financing districts."
description: "Existing law authorizes the legislative body of a city or a county, defined to include a city and county, to establish an enhanced infrastructure financing district to finance public capital facilities or other specified projects of communitywide significance, including, but not limited to, the acquisition, construction, or rehabilitation of housing for persons of low and moderate income for rent or purchase. Existing law requires proceedings for the establishment of a district to be instituted by the adoption of a resolution of intention to establish the proposed district, and imposes specified duties on the legislative body with respect to the preparation, proposal, and adoption of an infrastructure financing plan after that resolution of intent is adopted."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20152016"
identifier: "AB 313"
citation: "California AB 313 (20152016)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Enhanced infrastructure financing districts."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Atkins"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 23
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2015-02-12"
last_action: "2015-09-22"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/4889e6aa-2c1a-49d4-a79c-c4a87d3ce244"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB313"
source_hash: "65b7dd067b9b6ee69a0355bec3478aef94bba66541ae631a69a2377b75bed463"
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 313 (20152016) — Enhanced infrastructure financing districts.

Existing law authorizes the legislative body of a city or a county, defined to include a city and county, to establish an enhanced infrastructure financing district to finance public capital facilities or other specified projects of communitywide significance, including, but not limited to, the acquisition, construction, or rehabilitation of housing for persons of low and moderate income for rent or purchase. Existing law requires proceedings for the establishment of a district to be instituted by the adoption of a resolution of intention to establish the proposed district, and imposes specified duties on the legislative body with respect to the preparation, proposal, and adoption of an infrastructure financing plan after that resolution of intent is adopted.

## Version chain

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

1. **02/12/15 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB313&version=20150AB31399INT)
2. **06/30/15 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB313&version=20150AB31398AMD)
3. **08/25/15 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB313&version=20150AB31397AMD)
4. **09/22/15 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB313&version=20150AB31395CHP)
5. **AB313** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB313)
6. **09/04/15 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB313&version=20150AB31396ENR)

## Votes

- 3rd Reading AB313 Atkins By Beall — **40–0** (pass) · upper
- Do pass and be ordered to the Consent Calendar — **11–0** (pass) · upper
- AB 313 ATKINS Concurrence in Senate Amendments — **80–0** (pass) · lower
- AB 313 ATKINS Consent Calendar Second Day — **78–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Transportation and Housing] with the recommendation: To Consent Calendar — **7–0** (pass) · upper
- Do pass. To Consent Calendar. — **9–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Atkins — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2015-02-12** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
- **2015-02-13** From printer. May be heard in committee March 15.
- **2015-02-23** Referred to Com. on L. GOV. `referral-committee`
- **2015-05-07** From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.) (May 6). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2015-05-11** Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2015-05-14** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 78. Noes 0. Page 1453.) `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2015-05-14** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2015-05-28** Referred to Coms. on GOV. & F. and T. & H. `referral-committee`
- **2015-06-30** 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. `referral-committee, reading-2, amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1`
- **2015-07-08** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on T. & H. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (July 8). Re-referred to Com. on T. & H. `referral-committee, committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2015-07-15** From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 11. Noes 0.) (July 14). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2015-07-16** Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2015-08-17** From Consent Calendar.
- **2015-08-17** Ordered to third reading.
- **2015-08-25** Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. `reading-3, amendment-passage, reading-1`
- **2015-08-26** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2015-08-31** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 40. Noes 0. Page 2305.). `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2015-08-31** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after September 2 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
- **2015-09-01** Assembly Rule 77 suspended. (Page 2729.)
- **2015-09-01** Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 80. Noes 0. Page 2732.). `committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage`
- **2015-09-14** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.
- **2015-09-22** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2015-09-22** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 320, Statutes of 2015.

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/4889e6aa-2c1a-49d4-a79c-c4a87d3ce244`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).