republic-os/legislation/us/states/ca/19992000/ab-1470.md

---
type: "Bill"
title: "Food banks."
description: "Food banks."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "19992000"
identifier: "AB 1470"
citation: "California AB 1470 (19992000)"
classification: ["bill", "appropriation"]
subjects: ["Food banks."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Cardoza"]
version_count: 7
action_count: 24
vote_count: 6
first_action: "1999-02-26"
last_action: "2000-09-07"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/7c0c8162-26ac-481c-a8a8-e0f7df011f09"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=199920000AB1470"
source_hash: "9afe8a9a354836a27d8753bb82eedfde9eada1ee0fd06c517c72feb5e7e7613a"
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 1470 (19992000) — Food banks.

## Version chain

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

1. **02/26/99 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=199920000AB1470&version=19990AB147099INT)
2. **05/20/99 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=199920000AB1470&version=19990AB147098AMD)
3. **08/22/00 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=199920000AB1470&version=19990AB147097AMD)
4. **08/30/00 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=199920000AB1470&version=19990AB147096AMD)
5. **09/07/00 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=199920000AB1470&version=19990AB147094CHP)
6. **AB1470** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=199920000AB1470)
7. **08/31/00 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=199920000AB1470&version=19990AB147095ENR)

## Votes

- AB 1470 CARDOZA THIRD READING — **pass** (pass) · lower
- Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on Appropriations. — **pass** (pass) · lower
- Do pass, but re-refer to the Committee on Appropriations. — **pass** (pass) · upper
- Assembly 3rd Reading AB1470 Cardoza — **pass** (pass) · upper
- Do pass. — **pass** (pass) · lower
- AB 1470 CARDOZA CONCURRENCE — **pass** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Cardoza — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2000-09-07** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 309, Statutes of 2000.
- **2000-09-02** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2000-09-01** Enrolled and to the Governor at 12:45 p.m.
- **2000-08-31** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. Urgency clause adopted. Senate amendments concurred in. To enrollment. (Ayes 69. Noes 3. Page 8946.) `committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage`
- **2000-08-31** Read third time. Urgency clause adopted. Passed and to Assembly. (Ayes 40. Noes 0. Page 6407.) `passage, reading-3, reading-1`
- **2000-08-30** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 13. Noes 0.). Read second time. To third reading. Read third time, amended, and returned to third reading. `amendment-passage, committee-passage, reading-3, committee-passage-favorable, reading-2, reading-1`
- **2000-08-29** Joint Rule 61(b)(14) suspended. (Page 6220.) Joint Rule 62(a), file notice suspended. (Page 6220.)
- **2000-08-25** From committee: Do pass, and re-refer to Standing Committee on Appropriations Re-referred. (Ayes 9. Noes 1.). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
- **2000-08-24** Joint Rule 61(b) suspended.
- **2000-08-22** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on AGR. & WAT. RES. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2000-05-23** In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
- **1999-06-07** Referred to Com. on AGR. & WAT. RES. `referral-committee`
- **1999-06-02** In Senate. Read first time. To Standing Committee on Rules for assignment. `reading-1`
- **1999-06-01** Read third time, passed, and to Senate. (Ayes 64. Noes 6. Page 2208.) `passage, reading-3, reading-1`
- **1999-05-28** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 17. Noes 0.) (May 26). Read second time. To third reading. `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, reading-2, reading-1`
- **1999-05-24** Re-referred to Standing Committee on Appropriations. `referral-committee`
- **1999-05-20** Read second time and amended. `amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1`
- **1999-05-19** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended, and re-refer to Standing Committee on Appropriations (Ayes 9. Noes 0.) (May 12). `committee-passage, amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, referral-committee`
- **1999-04-22** Joint Rule 61 (a)(2) suspended.
- **1999-04-21** In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
- **1999-03-18** Referred to Standing Committee on Agriculture. `referral-committee`
- **1999-03-01** Read first time. `reading-1`
- **1999-02-28** From printer. May be heard in committee March 30.
- **1999-02-26** Introduced. To print. `introduction`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/7c0c8162-26ac-481c-a8a8-e0f7df011f09`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).