republic-os/legislation/us/states/ca/20132014/ab-1979.md

---
type: "Bill"
title: "School facilities: California School Finance Authority: definitions."
description: "(1) Existing law authorizes the California School Finance Authority to, among other things, determine the location and character of any project to be financed or refinanced under the California School Finance Authority Act. Existing law defines the term \"project\" as the acquisition, construction, expansion, remodeling, renovation, improvement, furnishing, or equipping of an educational facility to be financed or refinanced pursuant to the act."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20132014"
identifier: "AB 1979"
citation: "California AB 1979 (20132014)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["School facilities: California School Finance Authority: definitions."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Nazarian"]
version_count: 8
action_count: 31
vote_count: 8
first_action: "2014-02-19"
last_action: "2014-09-18"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/371de3c4-25eb-4d80-a7be-7e78fc940d17"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB1979"
source_hash: "61b793c19975b3208c6f2be9484fe8da87937ef5e9a1b621c7a92c5767caf2d7"
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 1979 (20132014) — School facilities: California School Finance Authority: definitions.

(1) Existing law authorizes the California School Finance Authority to, among other things, determine the location and character of any project to be financed or refinanced under the California School Finance Authority Act. Existing law defines the term "project" as the acquisition, construction, expansion, remodeling, renovation, improvement, furnishing, or equipping of an educational facility to be financed or refinanced pursuant to the act.

## Version chain

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

1. **02/19/14 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB1979&version=20130AB197999INT)
2. **05/28/14 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB1979&version=20130AB197998AMD)
3. **06/18/14 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB1979&version=20130AB197997AMD)
4. **07/01/14 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB1979&version=20130AB197996AMD)
5. **08/05/14 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB1979&version=20130AB197995AMD)
6. **09/18/14 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB1979&version=20130AB197993CHP)
7. **AB1979** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB1979)
8. **08/29/14 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB1979&version=20130AB197994ENR)

## Votes

- Do pass, to Consent Calendar. — **17–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass, but re-refer to the Committee on Appropriations Recommend Consent. — **6–0** (pass) · upper
- Do pass as amended, and re-refer to the Committee on Rules. — **7–0** (pass) · upper
- amendments be concurred in. — **5–0** (pass) · lower
- AB 1979 NAZARIAN Concurrence in Senate Amendments — **78–0** (pass) · lower
- AB 1979 NAZARIAN Consent Calendar Second Day — **73–0** (pass) · lower
- 3rd Reading AB1979 Nazarian By Liu — **35–0** (pass) · upper
- Do pass and re-refer to Committee on Appropriations with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. — **7–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Nazarian — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2014-02-19** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
- **2014-02-20** From printer. May be heard in committee March 22.
- **2014-03-03** Referred to Com. on ED. `referral-committee`
- **2014-04-21** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: to consent calendar. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (April 9). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee, committee-passage`
- **2014-04-30** From committee: Do pass. To consent calendar. (Ayes 17. Noes 0.) (April 30). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2014-05-01** Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2014-05-08** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 73. Noes 0. Page 4849.) `reading-3, reading-1, passage`
- **2014-05-08** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2014-05-22** Referred to Com. on ED. `referral-committee`
- **2014-05-28** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on ED. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2014-06-02** In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
- **2014-06-17** From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on RLS. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (June 11). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, amendment-passage`
- **2014-06-18** Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on RLS. `amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2014-06-19** Re-referred to Com. on GOV. & F. `referral-committee`
- **2014-06-25** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: to consent calendar. (Ayes 6. Noes 0.) (June 25). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee, committee-passage`
- **2014-07-01** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on APPR. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2014-08-04** From committee: Be placed on second reading file pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8 and ordered to consent calendar. `committee-passage`
- **2014-08-05** Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2014-08-05** From consent calendar.
- **2014-08-05** Ordered to third reading.
- **2014-08-05** Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. `reading-3, reading-1, amendment-passage`
- **2014-08-06** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2014-08-18** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 35. Noes 0. Page 4557.). `reading-3, reading-1, passage`
- **2014-08-18** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after August 20 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
- **2014-08-19** Re-referred to Com. on ED. pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.2. `referral-committee`
- **2014-08-25** Joint Rule 62(a), file notice suspended. (Page 6379.)
- **2014-08-26** From committee: That the Senate amendments be concurred in. (Ayes 5. Noes 0.) (August 26). `committee-passage`
- **2014-08-27** Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 78. Noes 0. Page 6533.). `committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage`
- **2014-09-08** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3:30 p.m.
- **2014-09-18** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2014-09-18** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 416, Statutes of 2014.

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/371de3c4-25eb-4d80-a7be-7e78fc940d17`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).