republic-os/legislation/us/states/ca/20152016/ab-485.md

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Bill	Personal income taxes: voluntary contributions: Prevention of Animal Homelessness and Cruelty Fund.	Existing law allows an individual taxpayer to contribute amounts in excess of his or her personal income tax liability for the support of specified funds.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20152016	AB 485	California AB 485 (20152016)	bill	Personal income taxes: voluntary contributions: Prevention of Animal Homelessness and Cruelty Fund.	enacted	Williams	8	29	8	2015-02-23	2015-10-07	openstates	ocd-bill/74affcfe-5a98-4fa9-8dd0-ecdd2642387f	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB485	0d4dd921c30b4c7edd189a084f190de938761524a8e4638d424f74e4e1e55454	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 485 (20152016) — Personal income taxes: voluntary contributions: Prevention of Animal Homelessness and Cruelty Fund.

Existing law allows an individual taxpayer to contribute amounts in excess of his or her personal income tax liability for the support of specified funds.

Version chain

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

1. 02/23/15 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 03/26/15 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 04/22/15 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
4. 06/19/15 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
5. 09/04/15 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
6. 10/07/15 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
7. AB485 (committee substitute) — source
8. 09/14/15 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• AB 485 WILLIAMS Consent Calendar Second Day — 77–0 (pass) · lower
• Placed on suspense file — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• 3rd Reading AB485 Williams By Allen — 39–0 (pass) · upper
• AB 485 WILLIAMS Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 80–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 7–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass. To Consent Calendar. — 17–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Williams — primary (person)
• Allen — principal coauthor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2015-02-23 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2015-02-24 From printer. May be heard in committee March 26.
• 2015-03-26 Referred to Com. on REV. & TAX. referral-committee
• 2015-03-26 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
• 2015-04-06 Re-referred to Com. on REV. & TAX. referral-committee
• 2015-04-21 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (April 20). amendment-introduction, committee-passage, amendment-passage
• 2015-04-22 Read second time and amended. amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1
• 2015-04-23 Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee
• 2015-04-29 From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 17. Noes 0.) (April 29). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2015-04-30 Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. reading-2, reading-1
• 2015-05-07 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 77. Noes 0. Page 1347.) reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2015-05-07 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2015-05-21 Referred to Com. on GOV. & F. referral-committee
• 2015-06-09 In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
• 2015-06-17 In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
• 2015-06-19 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
• 2015-07-01 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (July 1). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee, committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2015-07-08 In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
• 2015-08-17 In committee: Referred to APPR. suspense file. referral-committee
• 2015-08-27 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (August 27). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2015-08-31 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2015-09-04 Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. reading-3, amendment-passage, reading-1
• 2015-09-08 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2015-09-09 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 39. Noes 0. Page 2637.). reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2015-09-09 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending.
• 2015-09-10 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 80. Noes 0. Page 3057.). committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage
• 2015-09-18 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.
• 2015-10-07 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2015-10-07 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 557, Statutes of 2015.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/74affcfe-5a98-4fa9-8dd0-ecdd2642387f. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).