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type: "Bill"
title: "Seaport infrastructure financing districts."
description: "Existing law authorizes the legislative body of a city or county to establish an enhanced infrastructure financing district, adopt an infrastructure financing plan, and issue bonds, for which only the district is liable, upon approval by 55% of the voters and to finance public capital facilities or other specified projects of communitywide significance, including, but not limited to, among other things, environmental mitigation, military base reuse, low-income housing, and specified housing and transit projects. Existing law authorizes an enhanced infrastructure financing district to fund infrastructure projects through tax increment financing, pursuant to the infrastructure financing plan and the agreement of affected taxing entities."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20152016"
identifier: "SB 63"
citation: "California SB 63 (20152016)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Seaport infrastructure financing districts."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Hall"]
version_count: 8
action_count: 28
vote_count: 8
first_action: "2015-01-05"
last_action: "2015-10-11"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/a56523d0-e247-4838-b8b1-79868636efbd"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB63"
source_hash: "68b161dc6b342662e91d58bce7a8d56ba0caba8d487c002d434302342b9a09ed"
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 SB 63 (20152016) — Seaport infrastructure financing districts.
Existing law authorizes the legislative body of a city or county to establish an enhanced infrastructure financing district, adopt an infrastructure financing plan, and issue bonds, for which only the district is liable, upon approval by 55% of the voters and to finance public capital facilities or other specified projects of communitywide significance, including, but not limited to, among other things, environmental mitigation, military base reuse, low-income housing, and specified housing and transit projects. Existing law authorizes an enhanced infrastructure financing district to fund infrastructure projects through tax increment financing, pursuant to the infrastructure financing plan and the agreement of affected taxing entities.
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **01/05/15 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB63&version=20150SB6399INT)
2. **03/23/15 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB63&version=20150SB6398AMD)
3. **04/07/15 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB63&version=20150SB6397AMD)
4. **06/01/15 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB63&version=20150SB6396AMD)
5. **09/01/15 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB63&version=20150SB6395AMD)
6. **10/11/15 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB63&version=20150SB6393CHP)
7. **SB63** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB63)
8. **09/09/15 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB63&version=20150SB6394ENR)
## Votes
- 3rd Reading — **362** (pass) · upper
- Do pass as amended — **52** (pass) · upper
- Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **61** (pass) · upper
- Placed on suspense file — **70** (pass) · upper
- SB 63 Hall Senate Third Reading By O'DONNELL — **762** (pass) · lower
- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **90** (pass) · lower
- Do pass. — **170** (pass) · lower
- Unfinished Business SB63 Hall Concurrence — **341** (pass) · upper
## Sponsors
- Hall — primary (person)
- Bonta — coauthor (person)
- Gipson — coauthor (person)
- Lara — coauthor (person)
- O'Donnell — coauthor (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2015-01-05** Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. `introduction, reading-1`
- **2015-01-06** From printer. May be acted upon on or after February 5.
- **2015-01-15** Referred to Com. on RLS. `referral-committee`
- **2015-03-23** From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on RLS. `referral-committee, reading-2, amendment-passage, committee-passage, reading-1`
- **2015-03-25** Re-referred to Com. on GOV. & F. `referral-committee`
- **2015-03-27** Set for hearing April 15.
- **2015-04-07** From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on GOV. & F. `referral-committee, reading-2, amendment-passage, committee-passage, reading-1`
- **2015-04-15** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 6. Noes 1. Page 618.) (April 15). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `referral-committee, committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2015-04-17** Set for hearing April 27.
- **2015-04-27** April 27 hearing: Placed on APPR. suspense file.
- **2015-05-23** Set for hearing May 28.
- **2015-05-28** From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 5. Noes 2. Page 1147.) (May 28). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, amendment-passage`
- **2015-06-01** Read second time and amended. Ordered to third reading. `amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1`
- **2015-06-02** Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 36. Noes 2. Page 1250.) Ordered to the Assembly. `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2015-06-02** In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. `reading-1`
- **2015-06-15** Referred to Com. on L. GOV. `referral-committee`
- **2015-07-16** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.) (July 15). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `referral-committee, committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2015-08-19** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 17. Noes 0.) (August 19). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2015-08-20** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2015-09-01** Read third time and amended. `reading-3, amendment-passage, reading-1`
- **2015-09-01** Ordered to third reading.
- **2015-09-03** Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 63. Noes 2. Page 2843.) Ordered to the Senate. `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2015-09-03** In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
- **2015-09-08** Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 34. Noes 1. Page 2555.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling. `committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage`
- **2015-09-11** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 5 p.m.
- **2015-09-11** (Corrected September 10).
- **2015-10-11** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2015-10-11** Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 793, Statutes of 2015.
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/a56523d0-e247-4838-b8b1-79868636efbd`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).