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Bill	Property tax: claims for refund.	Existing property tax law requires property taxes to be refunded to the taxpayer or last recorded owner, as provided, under specified circumstances and requires that a refund only be made pursuant to a claim for refund. Existing law requires the claim to be verified by the person who paid the tax, including his or her guardian, executor, or administrator.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20172018	SB 1246	California SB 1246 (20172018)	bill	Property tax: claims for refund.	enacted	Gaines	7	25	5	2018-02-15	2018-09-11	openstates	ocd-bill/b30b4167-aa70-4a19-820f-5e668c9bb406	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB1246	2d5da7646fbafa2cd98045324848ae8a90f5e74e6120f6ce8ad81168a7beddc4	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California SB 1246 (20172018) — Property tax: claims for refund.

Existing property tax law requires property taxes to be refunded to the taxpayer or last recorded owner, as provided, under specified circumstances and requires that a refund only be made pursuant to a claim for refund. Existing law requires the claim to be verified by the person who paid the tax, including his or her guardian, executor, or administrator.

Version chain

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

1. 02/15/18 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 04/30/18 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
3. 05/16/18 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
4. 06/27/18 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
5. 09/11/18 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
6. SB1246 (committee substitute) — source
7. 08/21/18 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do pass. — 9–0 (pass) · lower
• 3rd Reading — 38–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 6–0 (pass) · upper
• Unfinished Business SB1246 Gaines Concurrence — 39–0 (pass) · upper
• SB 1246 Gaines Senate Third Reading By KILEY — 77–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Gaines — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2018-02-15 Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. introduction, reading-1
• 2018-02-16 From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 18.
• 2018-03-01 Referred to Com. on RLS. referral-committee
• 2018-04-30 From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on RLS. reading-2, referral-committee, amendment-passage, committee-passage, reading-1
• 2018-05-03 Re-referred to Com. on GOV. & F. referral-committee
• 2018-05-04 Set for hearing May 9.
• 2018-05-15 From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 6. Noes 0. Page 4996.) (May 9). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, amendment-passage
• 2018-05-16 Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. amendment-passage, reading-2, referral-committee, reading-1
• 2018-05-17 Withdrawn from committee.
• 2018-05-17 Ordered to second reading.
• 2018-05-21 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2018-05-29 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 38. Noes 0. Page 4333.) Ordered to the Assembly. reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2018-05-29 In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. reading-1
• 2018-06-04 Referred to Com. on REV. & TAX. referral-committee
• 2018-06-18 June 18 set for first hearing canceled at the request of author.
• 2018-06-25 June 25 set for second hearing canceled at the request of author.
• 2018-06-27 From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on REV. & TAX. reading-2, referral-committee, amendment-passage, committee-passage, reading-1
• 2018-07-03 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.) (July 2). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2018-07-05 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2018-08-16 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 77. Noes 0. Page 6306.) Ordered to the Senate. reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2018-08-16 In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
• 2018-08-20 Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 39. Noes 0. Page 5428.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling. committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage
• 2018-08-24 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.
• 2018-09-11 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2018-09-11 Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 358, Statutes of 2018.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/b30b4167-aa70-4a19-820f-5e668c9bb406. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).