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Bill	Property taxation: transfer of base year value: disaster relief.	Existing property tax law provides, pursuant to a requirement of the California Constitution, that the property tax base year value of real property that is substantially damaged or destroyed by a disaster, as declared by the Governor, may be transferred to a comparable property located within the same county that is acquired or newly constructed within 5 years after the disaster as a replacement property.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20232024	AB 556	California AB 556 (20232024)	bill	Property taxation disaster relief transfer of base year value	enacted	Gallagher	7	28	7	2023-02-08	2023-10-08	openstates	ocd-bill/fc8f602a-dfd8-4289-a362-414cbf5ff057	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB556	403303f5609dead8e644f9b4458366e0135f224fc34de98b701ea5541f2607c9	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 556 (20232024) — Property taxation: transfer of base year value: disaster relief.

Existing property tax law provides, pursuant to a requirement of the California Constitution, that the property tax base year value of real property that is substantially damaged or destroyed by a disaster, as declared by the Governor, may be transferred to a comparable property located within the same county that is acquired or newly constructed within 5 years after the disaster as a replacement property.

Version chain

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

1. 02/08/23 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 03/09/23 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 03/29/23 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
4. 04/27/23 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
5. 10/08/23 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
6. AB556 (committee substitute) — source
7. 09/14/23 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 11–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass. — 15–0 (pass) · lower
• Special Consent AB556 Gallagher By Dahle Urgency Clause — 39–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with the recommendation: To Consent Calendar — 8–0 (pass) · upper
• AB 556 Gallagher Third Reading Urgency — 80–0 (pass) · lower
• Placed on suspense file — 7–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Gallagher — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2023-02-08 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2023-02-09 From printer. May be heard in committee March 11.
• 2023-03-09 Referred to Com. on REV. & TAX. referral-committee
• 2023-03-09 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on REV. & TAX. Read second time and amended. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
• 2023-03-13 Re-referred to Com. on REV. & TAX. referral-committee
• 2023-03-29 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on REV. & TAX. Read second time and amended. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
• 2023-03-30 Re-referred to Com. on REV. & TAX. referral-committee
• 2023-04-11 In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to REV. & TAX. suspense file. referral-committee
• 2023-04-26 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 11. Noes 0.) (April 24). amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2023-04-27 Read second time and amended. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
• 2023-05-01 Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee
• 2023-05-17 In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to APPR. suspense file. referral-committee
• 2023-05-18 Joint Rule 62(a), file notice suspended. (Page 1580.)
• 2023-05-18 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 15. Noes 0.) (May 18). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2023-05-18 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2023-05-31 Read third time. Urgency clause adopted. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 80. Noes 0. Page 2057.). passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2023-06-01 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2023-06-14 Referred to Com. on GOV. & F. referral-committee
• 2023-06-21 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 8. Noes 0.) (June 21). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2023-07-03 In committee: Referred to APPR suspense file. referral-committee
• 2023-09-01 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (September 1). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2023-09-05 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2023-09-08 Ordered to special consent calendar.
• 2023-09-12 Read third time. Urgency clause adopted. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 39. Noes 0. Page 2686.). passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2023-09-12 In Assembly. Ordered to Engrossing and Enrolling. committee-passage
• 2023-09-19 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.
• 2023-10-08 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2023-10-08 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 443, Statutes of 2023. became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/fc8f602a-dfd8-4289-a362-414cbf5ff057. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).