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Bill	Personal income taxes: voluntary contributions: Schools Not Prisons Voluntary Tax Contribution Fund.	Existing law authorizes an individual to contribute amounts in excess of his or her personal income tax liability for the support of specified funds. Under existing law, there are general administrative provisions applicable to these voluntary contributions, which, among other things, provide for the disbursement of contributions following the repeal of the fund's provisions and require undesignated funds to be transferred to the General Fund.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20172018	AB 2944	California AB 2944 (20172018)	bill appropriation	Personal income taxes: voluntary contributions: Schools Not Prisons Voluntary Tax Contribution Fund.	enacted	Jones-Sawyer	8	25	7	2018-02-16	2018-09-17	openstates	ocd-bill/f240a478-6a8f-43b4-9d08-eb124cd970b6	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB2944	036626d31e1ff8d31c9081866f0ad7131a55b515b400da394b7a6aea4216f494	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 2944 (20172018) — Personal income taxes: voluntary contributions: Schools Not Prisons Voluntary Tax Contribution Fund.

Existing law authorizes an individual to contribute amounts in excess of his or her personal income tax liability for the support of specified funds. Under existing law, there are general administrative provisions applicable to these voluntary contributions, which, among other things, provide for the disbursement of contributions following the repeal of the fund's provisions and require undesignated funds to be transferred to the General Fund.

Version chain

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

1. 02/16/18 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 04/02/18 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 04/16/18 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
4. 05/31/18 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
5. 06/14/18 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
6. 09/17/18 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
7. AB2944 (committee substitute) — source
8. 08/22/18 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Special Consent AB2944 — 37–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 8–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• AB 2944 JONES-SAWYER Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 79–0 (pass) · lower
• AB 2944 JONES-SAWYER Consent Calendar Second Day — 71–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass. To Consent Calendar. — 17–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Jones-Sawyer — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2018-02-16 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2018-02-17 From printer. May be heard in committee March 19.
• 2018-03-08 Referred to Com. on REV. & TAX. referral-committee
• 2018-04-02 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on REV. & TAX. Read second time and amended. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1
• 2018-04-03 Re-referred to Com. on REV. & TAX. referral-committee
• 2018-04-12 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 8. Noes 0.) (April 9). amendment-passage, committee-passage, amendment-introduction
• 2018-04-16 Read second time and amended. reading-1, amendment-passage, reading-2
• 2018-04-17 Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee
• 2018-04-25 From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 17. Noes 0.) (April 25). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2018-04-26 Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. reading-2, reading-1
• 2018-05-03 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 71. Noes 0. Page 5007.) reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2018-05-03 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2018-05-17 Referred to Com. on GOV. & F. referral-committee
• 2018-05-31 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. amendment-passage, referral-committee, reading-2, reading-1, amendment-introduction
• 2018-06-13 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (June 13). amendment-passage, committee-passage, amendment-introduction
• 2018-06-14 Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. amendment-passage, reading-2, referral-committee, reading-1
• 2018-07-02 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (July 2). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2018-07-03 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2018-08-01 Ordered to special consent calendar.
• 2018-08-13 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 37. Noes 0. Page 5286.). reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2018-08-14 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after August 16 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
• 2018-08-20 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 79. Noes 0. Page 6361.). committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage
• 2018-08-27 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m.
• 2018-09-17 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2018-09-17 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 441, Statutes of 2018.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/f240a478-6a8f-43b4-9d08-eb124cd970b6. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).