Personal income taxes: voluntary contributions: Emergency Food for Families Voluntary Tax Contribution Fund.
Existing law authorizes individuals to contribute amounts in excess of their personal income tax liability for the support of specified funds, including the Emergency Food Assistance Program Fund. Existing law also has general administrative provisions applicable to voluntary contributions. Existing law provides for any new or extended voluntary contribution fund, to include the words "voluntary tax contribution" in the name of the fund, require the administering agency to include specified information about the fund on its Internet Web site, continuously appropriate from the fund the contributions made to the administering agency, and set a minimum contribution amount for the continuation of any voluntary tax contribution on the tax return form and include a generally applicable repeal date for a voluntary tax contribution. Existing law requires that the Emergency Food Assistance Program Fund equal or exceed a minimum contribution amount, which initially was $250,000 and which was required to be and has been adjusted for inflation.
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SB 61
California SB 61 (20172018)
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Personal income taxes: voluntary contributions: Emergency Food for Families Voluntary Tax Contribution Fund.
California SB 61 (20172018) — Personal income taxes: voluntary contributions: Emergency Food for Families Voluntary Tax Contribution Fund.
Existing law authorizes individuals to contribute amounts in excess of their personal income tax liability for the support of specified funds, including the Emergency Food Assistance Program Fund. Existing law also has general administrative provisions applicable to voluntary contributions. Existing law provides for any new or extended voluntary contribution fund, to include the words "voluntary tax contribution" in the name of the fund, require the administering agency to include specified information about the fund on its Internet Web site, continuously appropriate from the fund the contributions made to the administering agency, and set a minimum contribution amount for the continuation of any voluntary tax contribution on the tax return form and include a generally applicable repeal date for a voluntary tax contribution. Existing law requires that the Emergency Food Assistance Program Fund equal or exceed a minimum contribution amount, which initially was $250,000 and which was required to be and has been adjusted for inflation.
Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
2016-12-21 Introduced. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. introduction
2016-12-22 From printer. May be acted upon on or after January 21.
2017-01-04 Read first time. reading-1
2017-01-12 Referred to Coms. on HUMAN S. and GOV. & F. referral-committee
2017-01-30 Withdrawn from committee.
2017-01-30 Re-referred to Com. on RLS. referral-committee
2017-02-02 Re-referred to Com. on GOV. & F. referral-committee
2017-03-07 Set for hearing March 22.
2017-03-22 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 7. Noes 0. Page 444.) (March 22). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee
2017-03-24 Set for hearing April 3.
2017-04-03 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 7. Noes 0. Page 584.) (April 3). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
2017-04-04 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
2017-04-06 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 39. Noes 0. Page 641.) Ordered to the Assembly. reading-3, passage, reading-1
2017-04-06 In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. reading-1
2017-05-18 Referred to Com. on REV. & TAX. referral-committee
2017-06-12 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
2017-06-27 From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.) (June 19). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, amendment-passage
2017-06-28 Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. amendment-passage, reading-2, referral-committee, reading-1
2017-07-19 From committee: Do pass. Ordered to consent calendar. (Ayes 16. Noes 0.) (July 19). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
2017-07-20 Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar. reading-2, reading-1
2017-08-24 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 76. Noes 0. Page 2768.) Ordered to the Senate. reading-3, passage, reading-1
2017-08-24 In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
2017-08-29 Ordered to special consent calendar.
2017-08-31 Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 37. Noes 0. Page 2352.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling. committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage
2017-09-08 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m.
2017-10-12 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
2017-10-12 Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 723, Statutes of 2017.
Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/958e43b8-90fb-4bb5-949a-459383d13360. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).