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Bill	Property taxation: welfare exemption.	The California Constitution authorizes the Legislature to exempt from taxation property that is used exclusively for religious, hospital, or charitable purposes, and is owned or held in trust by a nonprofit entity. Pursuant to this constitutional authority, existing law partially exempts from property taxation property used exclusively for rental housing and related facilities, if specified criteria are met, including, except in the case of a limited partnership in which the managing general partner is a nonprofit corporation eligible for the exemption, that 90% or more of the occupants of the property are lower income households whose rents do not exceed the rent limits prescribed by a specified law. Existing law limits the total exemption amount allowed to a taxpayer, with respect to a single property or multiple properties for any fiscal year on the sole basis of the application of this criterion, to $20,000 of tax.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20152016	SB 996	California SB 996 (20152016)	bill	Property taxation: welfare exemption.	enacted	Hill	7	30	8	2016-02-10	2016-09-29	openstates	ocd-bill/c36671b5-3712-4a70-b5e0-b4ebe0ccd5c8	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB996	b853a60a187ebcab10fe8c4d5e77e1f95321db2752310540257dcc0869168524	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California SB 996 (20152016) — Property taxation: welfare exemption.

The California Constitution authorizes the Legislature to exempt from taxation property that is used exclusively for religious, hospital, or charitable purposes, and is owned or held in trust by a nonprofit entity. Pursuant to this constitutional authority, existing law partially exempts from property taxation property used exclusively for rental housing and related facilities, if specified criteria are met, including, except in the case of a limited partnership in which the managing general partner is a nonprofit corporation eligible for the exemption, that 90% or more of the occupants of the property are lower income households whose rents do not exceed the rent limits prescribed by a specified law. Existing law limits the total exemption amount allowed to a taxpayer, with respect to a single property or multiple properties for any fiscal year on the sole basis of the application of this criterion, to $20,000 of tax.

Version chain

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

1. 02/10/16 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 05/02/16 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
3. 06/23/16 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
4. 08/15/16 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
5. 09/29/16 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
6. SB996 (committee substitute) — source
7. 08/26/16 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do pass — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• Placed on suspense file — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 9–0 (pass) · lower
• SB 996 Hill Senate Third Reading By MULLIN — 79–0 (pass) · lower
• Special Consent — 39–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended. — 15–0 (pass) · lower
• 3rd Reading — 39–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Hill — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2016-02-10 Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. introduction, reading-1
• 2016-02-11 From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 12.
• 2016-02-18 Referred to Com. on GOV. & F. referral-committee
• 2016-02-24 Set for hearing March 16.
• 2016-03-08 March 16 hearing postponed by committee.
• 2016-03-10 Set for hearing March 30.
• 2016-03-30 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 7. Noes 0. Page 3334.) (March 30). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee, committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2016-04-01 Set for hearing April 11.
• 2016-04-11 April 11 hearing: Placed on APPR. suspense file.
• 2016-05-02 From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee, reading-2, amendment-passage, committee-passage, reading-1
• 2016-05-20 Set for hearing May 27.
• 2016-05-27 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 7. Noes 0. Page 4001.) (May 27). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2016-05-27 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2016-05-31 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 39. Noes 0. Page 4040.) Ordered to the Assembly. reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2016-06-01 In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. reading-1
• 2016-06-06 Referred to Com. on REV. & TAX. referral-committee
• 2016-06-20 June 20 set for first hearing. Placed on REV. & TAX. suspense file.
• 2016-06-22 From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.) (June 20). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, amendment-passage
• 2016-06-23 Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee, reading-2, amendment-passage, reading-1
• 2016-08-03 August 3 set for first hearing. Placed on APPR. suspense file.
• 2016-08-12 From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 15. Noes 0.) (August 11). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, amendment-passage
• 2016-08-15 Read second time and amended. Ordered to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1
• 2016-08-16 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2016-08-18 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 79. Noes 0. Page 5893.) Ordered to the Senate. reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2016-08-19 In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
• 2016-08-23 Ordered to special consent calendar.
• 2016-08-25 Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 39. Noes 0. Page 5429.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling. committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage
• 2016-08-30 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 1:30 p.m.
• 2016-09-29 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2016-09-29 Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 836, Statutes of 2016.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/c36671b5-3712-4a70-b5e0-b4ebe0ccd5c8. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).