republic-os/legislation/us/states/ca/20192020/ab-263.md

---
type: "Bill"
title: "Taxation: tax expenditures: information."
description: "Existing law imposes various taxes, including income taxes and sales and use taxes, and allows specified credits, deductions, exclusions, and exemptions in computing those taxes. Existing law limits the collection and use of taxpayer information and provides that any unauthorized use of this information is punishable as a misdemeanor. Existing law also requires any bill, introduced on or after January 1, 2015, that would authorize a personal income or corporation tax credit to contain, among other provisions, specified goals, purposes, and objectives that the tax credit will achieve and detailed performance indicators, including data collection requirements, to measure whether the tax credit is meeting those goals, purposes, and objectives and provides that taxpayer information collected pursuant to these new requirements is subject to the limitation on the collection and use of that information."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20192020"
identifier: "AB 263"
citation: "California AB 263 (20192020)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Taxation: tax expenditures: information."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Burke"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 20
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2019-01-24"
last_action: "2019-10-11"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/0262a880-9223-426e-b22b-06b1a1099d53"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB263"
source_hash: "c46f748ef755a5b94fe492e6273d027f6d77034ba3d1e02e1628d33949f6b4d1"
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 263 (20192020) — Taxation: tax expenditures: information.

Existing law imposes various taxes, including income taxes and sales and use taxes, and allows specified credits, deductions, exclusions, and exemptions in computing those taxes. Existing law limits the collection and use of taxpayer information and provides that any unauthorized use of this information is punishable as a misdemeanor. Existing law also requires any bill, introduced on or after January 1, 2015, that would authorize a personal income or corporation tax credit to contain, among other provisions, specified goals, purposes, and objectives that the tax credit will achieve and detailed performance indicators, including data collection requirements, to measure whether the tax credit is meeting those goals, purposes, and objectives and provides that taxpayer information collected pursuant to these new requirements is subject to the limitation on the collection and use of that information.

## Version chain

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

1. **01/24/19 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB263&version=20190AB26399INT)
2. **07/02/19 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB263&version=20190AB26398AMD)
3. **10/11/19 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB263&version=20190AB26396CHP)
4. **AB263** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB263)
5. **09/04/19 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB263&version=20190AB26397ENR)

## Votes

- Do pass. — **16–0** (pass) · lower
- AB 263 Burke Concurrence in Senate Amendments — **73–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **9–0** (pass) · lower
- 3rd Reading AB263 Burke By McGuire — **39–0** (pass) · upper
- Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **7–0** (pass) · upper
- AB 263 Burke Assembly Third Reading — **71–1** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Burke — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-01-24** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
- **2019-01-25** From printer. May be heard in committee February 24.
- **2019-02-07** Referred to Com. on REV. & TAX. `referral-committee`
- **2019-03-19** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.) (March 18). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2019-04-03** In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to APPR. suspense file. `referral-committee`
- **2019-05-16** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 16. Noes 0.) (May 16). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2019-05-20** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2019-05-23** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 71. Noes 1. Page 1860.) `passage, reading-3, reading-1`
- **2019-05-24** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2019-06-06** Referred to Com. on GOV. & F. `referral-committee`
- **2019-07-01** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (June 26). `amendment-passage, committee-passage, amendment-introduction`
- **2019-07-02** Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `reading-1, reading-2, amendment-passage, referral-committee`
- **2019-08-12** From committee: Be ordered to second reading pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8. `committee-passage, reading-2`
- **2019-08-13** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2019-08-26** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 39. Noes 0. Page 2285.). `passage, reading-3, reading-1`
- **2019-08-27** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after August 29 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
- **2019-09-03** Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 73. Noes 0. Page 2943.). `amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-09-09** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3:30 p.m.
- **2019-10-11** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2019-10-11** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 743, Statutes of 2019.

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/0262a880-9223-426e-b22b-06b1a1099d53`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).