republic-os/legislation/us/states/ca/20132014/ab-637.md

---
type: "Bill"
title: "Housing assistance."
description: "Existing law requires the California Housing Finance Agency to administer the California Homebuyer's Downpayment Assistance Program for the purpose of assisting first-time low- and moderate-income home buyers utilizing existing mortgage financing. Existing law allows the agency to use not more than $75,000,000 of the funds available pursuant to that program to finance the acquisition of land and the construction and development of for-sale residential structures through short-term loans, as specified."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20132014"
identifier: "AB 637"
citation: "California AB 637 (20132014)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Housing assistance."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Atkins"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 23
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2013-02-20"
last_action: "2013-10-12"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/9a71bb89-b6d2-4cb4-9c5b-0de729f93654"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB637"
source_hash: "ccfea6d4cc452113110b121416d3a1a87e64c712c96a4b4c82d6886d4834ae73"
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 637 (20132014) — Housing assistance.

Existing law requires the California Housing Finance Agency to administer the California Homebuyer's Downpayment Assistance Program for the purpose of assisting first-time low- and moderate-income home buyers utilizing existing mortgage financing. Existing law allows the agency to use not more than $75,000,000 of the funds available pursuant to that program to finance the acquisition of land and the construction and development of for-sale residential structures through short-term loans, as specified.

## Version chain

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

1. **02/20/13 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB637&version=20130AB63799INT)
2. **04/24/13 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB637&version=20130AB63798AMD)
3. **08/20/13 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB637&version=20130AB63797AMD)
4. **10/12/13 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB637&version=20130AB63795CHP)
5. **AB637** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB637)
6. **09/05/13 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB637&version=20130AB63796ENR)

## Votes

- Do pass. — **5–2** (pass) · lower
- AB 637 ATKINS Assembly Third Reading — **54–22** (pass) · lower
- 3rd Reading AB637 Atkins By Torres — **29–10** (pass) · upper
- AB 637 ATKINS Concurrence in Senate Amendments — **56–22** (pass) · lower
- Do pass. — **9–1** (pass) · upper
- Be referred to Committee on Housing and Community Development. — **11–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Atkins — primary (person)
- Torres — coauthor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2013-02-20** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
- **2013-02-21** From printer. May be heard in committee March 23.
- **2013-03-04** Referred to Com. on H. & C.D. `referral-committee`
- **2013-04-01** In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
- **2013-04-24** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on H. & C.D. Read second time and amended. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1`
- **2013-04-25** Re-referred to Com. on H. & C.D. `referral-committee`
- **2013-04-29** Re-referred to Com. on RLS. pursuant to Assembly Rule 96. `referral-committee`
- **2013-04-29** From committee: Be re-referred to Com. on H. & C.D. Re-referred. (Ayes 11. Noes 0.) (April 29). Re-referred to Com. on H. & C.D. `referral-committee, committee-passage`
- **2013-05-01** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 5. Noes 2.) (May 1). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2013-05-02** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2013-05-09** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 54. Noes 22. Page 1324.) `reading-3, reading-1, passage`
- **2013-05-09** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2013-05-23** Referred to Com. on T. & H. `referral-committee`
- **2013-06-18** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 9. Noes 1.) (June 18). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2013-06-19** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2013-08-20** Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. `reading-3, reading-1, amendment-passage`
- **2013-08-21** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2013-08-26** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 29. Noes 10. Page 1986.). `reading-3, reading-1, passage`
- **2013-08-26** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after August 28 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
- **2013-08-30** Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 56. Noes 22. Page 2777.). `committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage`
- **2013-09-09** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3:30 p.m.
- **2013-10-12** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2013-10-12** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 770, Statutes of 2013.

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/9a71bb89-b6d2-4cb4-9c5b-0de729f93654`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).