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Bill	California Alternative Energy and Advanced Transportation Financing Authority: sales and use taxes: exclusions.	The California Alternative Energy and Advanced Transportation Financing Authority Act establishes the California Alternative Energy and Advanced Transportation Financing Authority. The act authorizes, until January 1, 2021, the authority to provide financial assistance in the form of a sales and use tax exclusion for projects, as defined, including those that promote California-based manufacturing, California-based jobs, advanced manufacturing, the reduction of greenhouse gases, or the reduction in air and water pollution or energy consumption. The act prohibits the sales and use tax exclusions from exceeding $100,000,000 for each calendar year. The act requires the authority to evaluate a project application based on specified criteria, including, among others, the extent to which the project will create new, permanent jobs in the state.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20192020	AB 176	California AB 176 (20192020)	bill	California Alternative Energy and Advanced Transportation Financing Authority: sales and use taxes: exclusions.	enacted	Cervantes	8	34	7	2019-01-09	2019-10-09	openstates	ocd-bill/138db2c9-fafc-4156-a1de-a76134f8e417	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB176	de4fec5f25caa59492dfa24c5c61651e6bc9d49fdc1a8b2640e517008940e66a	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 176 (20192020) — California Alternative Energy and Advanced Transportation Financing Authority: sales and use taxes: exclusions.

The California Alternative Energy and Advanced Transportation Financing Authority Act establishes the California Alternative Energy and Advanced Transportation Financing Authority. The act authorizes, until January 1, 2021, the authority to provide financial assistance in the form of a sales and use tax exclusion for projects, as defined, including those that promote California-based manufacturing, California-based jobs, advanced manufacturing, the reduction of greenhouse gases, or the reduction in air and water pollution or energy consumption. The act prohibits the sales and use tax exclusions from exceeding $100,000,000 for each calendar year. The act requires the authority to evaluate a project application based on specified criteria, including, among others, the extent to which the project will create new, permanent jobs in the state.

Version chain

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

1. 01/09/19 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 02/25/19 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 04/12/19 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
4. 06/12/19 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
5. 09/06/19 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
6. 10/09/19 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
7. AB176 (committee substitute) — source
8. 09/20/19 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 11–0 (pass) · lower
• AB 176 Cervantes Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 78–0 (pass) · lower
• Be re-referred to the Committee on [Revenue and Taxation] — 10–0 (pass) · lower
• AB 176 Cervantes Assembly Third Reading — 77–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass. — 18–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with the recommendation: To Consent Calendar — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• 3rd Reading AB176 Cervantes By Hueso — 40–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Cervantes — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2019-01-09 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2019-01-10 From printer. May be heard in committee February 9.
• 2019-01-24 Referred to Coms. on NAT. RES. and REV. & TAX. referral-committee
• 2019-02-25 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on NAT. RES. Read second time and amended. reading-1, reading-2, amendment-passage, amendment-introduction
• 2019-02-26 Re-referred to Com. on NAT. RES. referral-committee
• 2019-03-25 Re-referred to Com. on RLS. pursuant to Assembly Rule 96(a). referral-committee
• 2019-03-28 From committee: Be re-referred to Com. on REV. & TAX. Re-referred. (Ayes 10. Noes 0.) (March 28). Re-referred to Com. on REV. & TAX. committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2019-04-12 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on REV. & TAX. Read second time and amended. reading-1, reading-2, amendment-passage, amendment-introduction
• 2019-04-22 Re-referred to Com. on REV. & TAX. referral-committee
• 2019-04-23 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 11. Noes 0.) (April 22). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2019-05-01 In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to APPR. suspense file. referral-committee
• 2019-05-16 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 18. Noes 0.) (May 16). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2019-05-20 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2019-05-22 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 77. Noes 0. Page 1788.) passage, reading-3, reading-1
• 2019-05-23 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2019-05-29 Referred to Com. on RLS. referral-committee
• 2019-06-12 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on RLS. reading-1, reading-2, amendment-passage, referral-committee, amendment-introduction
• 2019-06-19 Re-referred to Com. on GOV. & F. referral-committee
• 2019-07-10 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (July 10). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2019-08-12 From committee: Be ordered to second reading file pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8 and ordered to Consent Calendar. committee-passage, reading-2
• 2019-08-13 Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. reading-1, reading-2
• 2019-08-15 From Consent Calendar.
• 2019-08-15 Ordered to third reading.
• 2019-08-22 Ordered to inactive file at the request of Senator Roth.
• 2019-09-06 From inactive file.
• 2019-09-06 Ordered to second reading.
• 2019-09-06 Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
• 2019-09-09 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2019-09-12 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 40. Noes 0. Page 2904.). passage, reading-3, reading-1
• 2019-09-12 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending.
• 2019-09-13 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 78. Noes 0. Page 3541.). amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2019-09-26 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.
• 2019-10-09 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2019-10-09 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 672, Statutes of 2019.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/138db2c9-fafc-4156-a1de-a76134f8e417. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).