republic-os/legislation/us/states/ca/20172018/sb-639.md

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Bill	Property taxation: assessment: electric generation facilities.	Existing property tax law generally requires a county assessor to assess all property subject to general property taxation at its full value, but requires the State Board of Equalization to annually value and assess all of the taxable property within the state that is to be assessed by it pursuant to the California Constitution, which includes, among other things, property, except franchises, owned or used by companies transmitting or selling electricity and property owned or used by other public utilities, as authorized by the Legislature. Existing property tax law authorizes the board to use the principle of unit valuation in valuing properties of a state assessee that are operated as a unit in a primary function of the assessee, and provides for the allocation of property tax assessed value and revenues from the unitary and operating nonunitary property, as defined, of the state assessee among the various counties in which that property is located.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20172018	SB 639	California SB 639 (20172018)	bill	Property taxation: assessment: electric generation facilities.	enacted	Hertzberg	5	21	0	2017-02-17	2017-09-01	openstates	ocd-bill/35f4cc96-fae7-4b92-a076-d0403039bfe1	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB639	975e1edcd4ad7b388f98b7d65fe06d2053a00eaa3683148076fedd9ddb776fff	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California SB 639 (20172018) — Property taxation: assessment: electric generation facilities.

Existing property tax law generally requires a county assessor to assess all property subject to general property taxation at its full value, but requires the State Board of Equalization to annually value and assess all of the taxable property within the state that is to be assessed by it pursuant to the California Constitution, which includes, among other things, property, except franchises, owned or used by companies transmitting or selling electricity and property owned or used by other public utilities, as authorized by the Legislature. Existing property tax law authorizes the board to use the principle of unit valuation in valuing properties of a state assessee that are operated as a unit in a primary function of the assessee, and provides for the allocation of property tax assessed value and revenues from the unitary and operating nonunitary property, as defined, of the state assessee among the various counties in which that property is located.

Version chain

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

1. 02/17/17 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 03/23/17 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
3. 09/01/17 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
4. SB639 (committee substitute) — source
5. 08/25/17 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Sponsors

• Hertzberg — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2017-02-17 Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. introduction, reading-1
• 2017-02-21 From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 23.
• 2017-03-02 Referred to Com. on RLS. referral-committee
• 2017-03-23 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
• 2017-03-29 Re-referred to Com. on GOV. & F. referral-committee
• 2017-04-05 Set for hearing April 19.
• 2017-04-19 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 7. Noes 0. Page 745.) (April 19). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2017-04-21 Set for hearing May 1.
• 2017-05-01 From committee: Be ordered to second reading pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8. committee-passage, reading-2
• 2017-05-02 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2017-05-08 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 38. Noes 0. Page 985.) Ordered to the Assembly. reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2017-05-09 In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. reading-1
• 2017-05-26 Referred to Com. on REV. & TAX. referral-committee
• 2017-06-21 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.) (June 19). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 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 2770.) Ordered to the Senate. reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2017-08-24 In Senate. Ordered to engrossing and enrolling.
• 2017-08-30 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m.
• 2017-09-01 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2017-09-01 Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 220, Statutes of 2017.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/35f4cc96-fae7-4b92-a076-d0403039bfe1. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).