republic-os/legislation/us/states/ca/20212022/ab-742.md

---
type: "Bill"
title: "Personal income taxes: voluntary contributions: School Supplies for Homeless Children Voluntary Tax Contribution Fund."
description: "Existing law authorizes an individual to contribute amounts in excess of their personal income tax liability for the support of specified funds, including the School Supplies for Homeless Children Fund, a special fund, that assists homeless children in the state by providing school supplies and health-related products. Existing law requires the State Department of Social Services to enter into a subvention services agreement with a nonprofit organization to administer the School Supplies for Homeless Children Fund, and repeals the fund on January 1, 2022, unless a specified minimum contribution amount is not met. Existing law sets forth general administrative provisions applicable to voluntary contributions, which, among other things, require any new or extended voluntary contribution fund to include the words \"voluntary tax contribution\" in the name of the fund, to require the administering agency to include specified information about the fund on its internet website, and to continuously appropriate from the fund the contributions made to the administering agency."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20212022"
identifier: "AB 742"
citation: "California AB 742 (20212022)"
classification: ["bill", "appropriation"]
subjects: ["Personal income taxes: voluntary contributions: School Supplies for Homeless Children Voluntary Tax Contribution Fund."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Calderon"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 19
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2021-02-16"
last_action: "2021-07-16"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/486c89fe-f2bf-479c-a878-2315ae8e58fa"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB742"
source_hash: "880fb44119e53c20c2fc40fe145af15e4786574e34a591102bdc91580894d40a"
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 742 (20212022) — Personal income taxes: voluntary contributions: School Supplies for Homeless Children Voluntary Tax Contribution Fund.

Existing law authorizes an individual to contribute amounts in excess of their personal income tax liability for the support of specified funds, including the School Supplies for Homeless Children Fund, a special fund, that assists homeless children in the state by providing school supplies and health-related products. Existing law requires the State Department of Social Services to enter into a subvention services agreement with a nonprofit organization to administer the School Supplies for Homeless Children Fund, and repeals the fund on January 1, 2022, unless a specified minimum contribution amount is not met. Existing law sets forth general administrative provisions applicable to voluntary contributions, which, among other things, require any new or extended voluntary contribution fund to include the words "voluntary tax contribution" in the name of the fund, to require the administering agency to include specified information about the fund on its internet website, and to continuously appropriate from the fund the contributions made to the administering agency.

## Version chain

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

1. **02/16/21 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB742&version=20210AB74299INT)
2. **05/26/21 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB742&version=20210AB74298AMD)
3. **07/16/21 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB742&version=20210AB74296CHP)
4. **AB742** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB742)
5. **06/29/21 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB742&version=20210AB74297ENR)

## Votes

- Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with the recommendation: To Consent Calendar — **5–0** (pass) · upper
- AB 742 Calderon Concurrence in Senate Amendments — **79–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **10–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass. To Consent Calendar. — **14–0** (pass) · lower
- Consent Calendar AB742 — **39–0** (pass) · upper
- AB 742 Calderon Consent Calendar Second Day — **77–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Calderon — primary (person)
- Quirk — coauthor (person)
- Santiago — coauthor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-02-16** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
- **2021-02-17** From printer. May be heard in committee March 19.
- **2021-02-25** Referred to Com. on REV. & TAX. `referral-committee`
- **2021-03-23** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 10. Noes 0.) (March 22). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
- **2021-04-21** From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 14. Noes 0.) (April 21). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-04-22** Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2021-04-29** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 77. Noes 0. Page 1251.) `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2021-05-03** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2021-05-12** Referred to Com. on GOV. & F. `referral-committee`
- **2021-05-26** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on GOV. & F. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2021-06-10** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 5. Noes 0.) (June 10). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
- **2021-06-21** From committee: Be ordered to second reading file pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8 and ordered to Consent Calendar. `committee-passage, reading-2`
- **2021-06-22** Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2021-06-24** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 39. Noes 0. Page 1634.). `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2021-06-24** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after June 26 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
- **2021-06-28** Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 79. Noes 0. Page 2123.). `amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-07-05** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4:30 p.m.
- **2021-07-16** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2021-07-16** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 96, 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/486c89fe-f2bf-479c-a878-2315ae8e58fa`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).