republic-os/legislation/us/states/ca/20212022/ab-1297.md

---
type: "Bill"
title: "California Infrastructure and Economic Development Bank: public and economic development facilities: housing."
description: "The Bergeson-Peace Infrastructure and Economic Development Bank Act authorizes the California Infrastructure and Economic Development Bank, governed by a board of directors, to, among other things, make loans, issue bonds, and provide other financial assistance for various types of projects that qualify as public development or economic development facilities. The act defines \"public development facilities\" for these purposes to mean real and personal property, structures, conveyances, equipment, thoroughfares, buildings, and supporting components thereof, excluding any housing, that are directly related to providing, among other things, housing-related infrastructure, as specified. The act defines \"economic development facilities\" for these purposes to mean real and personal property, structures, buildings, equipment, and supporting components thereof that are used to provide industrial, recreational, research, commercial, utility, goods movement, or service enterprise facilities, community, educational, cultural, or social welfare facilities and any parts or combinations thereof, and all necessary facilities or infrastructure, excluding any housing."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20212022"
identifier: "AB 1297"
citation: "California AB 1297 (20212022)"
classification: ["bill", "appropriation"]
subjects: ["California Infrastructure and Economic Development Bank: public and economic development facilities: housing."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Holden"]
version_count: 8
action_count: 30
vote_count: 10
first_action: "2021-02-19"
last_action: "2021-09-28"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/5b9ee751-8304-44bd-bfca-47cd466c117d"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB1297"
source_hash: "0d7b1b3683b9b2fb5e8a9dde92a4a4c7a63ba6c292a2f355fc7431a995770e40"
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 1297 (20212022) — California Infrastructure and Economic Development Bank: public and economic development facilities: housing.

The Bergeson-Peace Infrastructure and Economic Development Bank Act authorizes the California Infrastructure and Economic Development Bank, governed by a board of directors, to, among other things, make loans, issue bonds, and provide other financial assistance for various types of projects that qualify as public development or economic development facilities. The act defines "public development facilities" for these purposes to mean real and personal property, structures, conveyances, equipment, thoroughfares, buildings, and supporting components thereof, excluding any housing, that are directly related to providing, among other things, housing-related infrastructure, as specified. The act defines "economic development facilities" for these purposes to mean real and personal property, structures, buildings, equipment, and supporting components thereof that are used to provide industrial, recreational, research, commercial, utility, goods movement, or service enterprise facilities, community, educational, cultural, or social welfare facilities and any parts or combinations thereof, and all necessary facilities or infrastructure, excluding any housing.

## Version chain

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

1. **02/19/21 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB1297&version=20210AB129799INT)
2. **03/30/21 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB1297&version=20210AB129798AMD)
3. **04/14/21 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB1297&version=20210AB129797AMD)
4. **05/20/21 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB1297&version=20210AB129796AMD)
5. **08/17/21 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB1297&version=20210AB129795AMD)
6. **09/28/21 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB1297&version=20210AB129793CHP)
7. **AB1297** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB1297)
8. **09/07/21 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB1297&version=20210AB129794ENR)

## Votes

- AB 1297 Holden Concurrence in Senate Amendments — **67–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on [Housing and Community Development] — **7–0** (pass) · lower
- Placed on suspense file — **7–0** (pass) · upper
- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **5–1** (pass) · lower
- Do pass. — **13–3** (pass) · lower
- Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Housing] — **12–0** (pass) · upper
- 3rd Reading AB1297 Holden et al. By Wiener — **38–0** (pass) · upper
- Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **9–0** (pass) · upper
- AB 1297 Holden Assembly Third Reading — **65–1** (pass) · lower
- Do pass — **7–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Holden — primary (person)
- Min — coauthor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-02-19** Introduced. To print. `introduction`
- **2021-02-20** From printer. May be heard in committee March 22.
- **2021-02-22** Read first time. `reading-1`
- **2021-03-04** Referred to Coms. on J.,E.D., & E. and H. & C.D. `referral-committee`
- **2021-03-30** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on J.,E.D., & E. Read second time and amended. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2`
- **2021-04-05** Re-referred to Com. on J.,E.D., & E. `referral-committee`
- **2021-04-13** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on H. & C.D. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (April 13). `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2021-04-14** Read second time and amended. `amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2`
- **2021-04-15** Re-referred to Com. on H. & C.D. `referral-committee`
- **2021-05-03** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 5. Noes 1.) (April 29). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
- **2021-05-03** Received by the Desk April 30 pursuant to Joint Rule 61(a)(2).
- **2021-05-12** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 13. Noes 3.) (May 12). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-05-13** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2021-05-20** Read third time and amended. Ordered to third reading. (Page 1464.) `amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2021-05-24** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 65. Noes 1. Page 1544.) `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2021-05-25** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2021-06-03** Referred to Coms. on B., P. & E.D. and HOUSING. `referral-committee`
- **2021-06-30** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on HOUSING. (Ayes 12. Noes 0.) (June 30). Re-referred to Com. on HOUSING. `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
- **2021-07-08** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.) (July 8). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
- **2021-08-17** 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-1, reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2021-08-23** In committee: Referred to APPR suspense file. `referral-committee`
- **2021-08-26** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (August 26). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-08-26** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2021-09-01** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 38. Noes 0. Page 2284.). `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2021-09-01** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after September 3 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
- **2021-09-02** Assembly Rule 77 suspended. (Ayes 57. Noes 14. Page 2703.)
- **2021-09-02** Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 67. Noes 0. Page 2748.). `amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-09-10** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.
- **2021-09-28** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2021-09-28** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 356, Statutes of 2021. `became-law`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/5b9ee751-8304-44bd-bfca-47cd466c117d`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).