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type: "Bill"
title: "Personal income tax: California Senior Citizen Advocacy Voluntary Tax Contribution Fund."
description: "Existing law authorizes an individual to contribute amounts in excess of the individual's personal income tax liability for the support of specified funds. Existing law sets forth general administrative provisions applicable to voluntary contributions, which, among other things, provide that a voluntary tax contribution remains in effect only until January 1 of the 7th calendar year following the first appearance of the contribution on the personal income tax return, and requires that a minimum contribution of $250,000 must be received for the fund to continue appearing on the tax return, as specified."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20192020"
identifier: "SB 309"
citation: "California SB 309 (20192020)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Personal income tax: California Senior Citizen Advocacy Voluntary Tax Contribution Fund."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Rubio"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 23
vote_count: 7
first_action: "2019-02-15"
last_action: "2019-09-20"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/952b27dc-1965-4fd9-8984-1e5019b658d3"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB309"
source_hash: "d6340fa8114d9f766ff047e62c08317635750b40c08a2d00c60c13d3cc2cfa48"
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 SB 309 (20192020) — Personal income tax: California Senior Citizen Advocacy Voluntary Tax Contribution Fund.
Existing law authorizes an individual to contribute amounts in excess of the individual's personal income tax liability for the support of specified funds. Existing law sets forth general administrative provisions applicable to voluntary contributions, which, among other things, provide that a voluntary tax contribution remains in effect only until January 1 of the 7th calendar year following the first appearance of the contribution on the personal income tax return, and requires that a minimum contribution of $250,000 must be received for the fund to continue appearing on the tax return, as specified.
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **02/15/19 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB309&version=20190SB30999INT)
2. **04/11/19 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB309&version=20190SB30998AMD)
3. **04/22/19 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB309&version=20190SB30997AMD)
4. **09/20/19 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB309&version=20190SB30995CHP)
5. **SB309** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB309)
6. **08/21/19 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB309&version=20190SB30996ENR)
## Votes
- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **70** (pass) · lower
- Do pass — **60** (pass) · upper
- Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **70** (pass) · upper
- SB 309 Rubio Third Reading Urgency By Blanca Rubio — **770** (pass) · lower
- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Aging and Long-Term Care] — **110** (pass) · lower
- 3rd Reading SB309 Rubio et al. Urgency Clause — **380** (pass) · upper
- Do pass. — **180** (pass) · lower
## Sponsors
- Rubio — primary (person)
- Blanca Rubio — coauthor (person)
- Levine — coauthor (person)
- Nazarian — coauthor (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2019-02-15** Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. `introduction, reading-1`
- **2019-02-19** From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 21.
- **2019-02-28** Referred to Com. on GOV. & F. `referral-committee`
- **2019-04-04** Set for hearing April 10.
- **2019-04-11** From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 7. Noes 0. Page 713.) (April 10). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, amendment-passage`
- **2019-04-11** Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `reading-1, reading-2, amendment-passage, referral-committee`
- **2019-04-18** Set for hearing April 29.
- **2019-04-22** From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `reading-1, reading-2, amendment-passage, committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2019-04-29** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 6. Noes 0. Page 872.) (April 29). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2019-04-30** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2019-05-09** Read third time. Urgency clause adopted. Passed. (Ayes 38. Noes 0. Page 998.) Ordered to the Assembly. `passage, reading-3, reading-1`
- **2019-05-09** In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. `reading-1`
- **2019-06-03** Referred to Coms. on REV. & TAX. and AGING & L.T.C. `referral-committee`
- **2019-06-17** June 17 hearing postponed by committee.
- **2019-06-25** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on AGING & L.T.C. (Ayes 11. Noes 0.) (June 24). Re-referred to Com. on AGING & L.T.C. `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2019-07-10** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (July 9). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2019-08-14** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 18. Noes 0.) (August 14). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2019-08-15** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2019-08-19** Read third time. Urgency clause adopted. Passed. (Ayes 77. Noes 0. Page 2755.) Ordered to the Senate. `passage, reading-3, reading-1`
- **2019-08-20** In Senate. Ordered to engrossing and enrolling.
- **2019-09-10** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.
- **2019-09-20** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2019-09-20** Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 325, Statutes of 2019.
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/952b27dc-1965-4fd9-8984-1e5019b658d3`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).