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type: "Bill"
title: "Utility user taxes: exemption: clean energy resource."
description: "Existing law generally provides that the legislative body of any city and any charter city may make and enforce all ordinances and regulations with respect to municipal affairs, as provided, including, but not limited to, a utility user tax on the consumption of gas and electricity. Existing law provides that the board of supervisors of any county may levy a utility user tax on the consumption of, among other things, gas and electricity in the unincorporated area of the county."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20192020"
identifier: "AB 1208"
citation: "California AB 1208 (20192020)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Utility user taxes: exemption: clean energy resource."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Ting"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 18
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2019-02-21"
last_action: "2019-09-05"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/740e121c-654f-40f9-84ef-734187483c4b"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB1208"
source_hash: "e0da2366396e454127ba58ec7fcc13259d3a2fa50ed1a3bc217acc16b489fa34"
vintage: "2026-07-01"
source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
confidence: "reported"
tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-ca"]
---
# California AB 1208 (20192020) — Utility user taxes: exemption: clean energy resource.
Existing law generally provides that the legislative body of any city and any charter city may make and enforce all ordinances and regulations with respect to municipal affairs, as provided, including, but not limited to, a utility user tax on the consumption of gas and electricity. Existing law provides that the board of supervisors of any county may levy a utility user tax on the consumption of, among other things, gas and electricity in the unincorporated area of the county.
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **02/21/19 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB1208&version=20190AB120899INT)
2. **03/25/19 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB1208&version=20190AB120898AMD)
3. **05/06/19 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB1208&version=20190AB120897AMD)
4. **09/05/19 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB1208&version=20190AB120895CHP)
5. **AB1208** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB1208)
6. **08/23/19 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB1208&version=20190AB120896ENR)
## Votes
- 3rd Reading AB1208 Ting et al. By McGuire — **390** (pass) · upper
- Do pass — **60** (pass) · upper
- AB 1208 Ting Assembly Third Reading — **760** (pass) · lower
- Do pass as amended. — **80** (pass) · lower
## Sponsors
- Ting — primary (person)
- Mullin — coauthor (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2019-02-21** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
- **2019-02-22** From printer. May be heard in committee March 24.
- **2019-03-25** Referred to Com. on L. GOV. `referral-committee`
- **2019-03-25** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on L. GOV. Read second time and amended. `reading-1, reading-2, amendment-passage, amendment-introduction`
- **2019-03-26** Re-referred to Com. on L. GOV. `referral-committee`
- **2019-05-02** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 8. Noes 0.) (May 1). `amendment-passage, committee-passage, amendment-introduction`
- **2019-05-06** Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading. `amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2`
- **2019-05-07** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2019-05-13** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 76. Noes 0. Page 1623.) `passage, reading-3, reading-1`
- **2019-05-14** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2019-05-22** Referred to Com. on GOV. & F. `referral-committee`
- **2019-06-20** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 6. Noes 0.) (June 19). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2019-06-24** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2019-08-22** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 39. Noes 0. Page 2238.). `passage, reading-3, reading-1`
- **2019-08-22** In Assembly. Ordered to Engrossing and Enrolling. `committee-passage`
- **2019-08-27** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3:30 p.m.
- **2019-09-05** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2019-09-05** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 238, Statutes of 2019.
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/740e121c-654f-40f9-84ef-734187483c4b`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).