republic-os/legislation/us/states/ca/20232024/ab-1270.md

---
type: "Bill"
title: "Redevelopment: successor agency: City of Lake Forest."
description: "Existing law dissolved redevelopment agencies and community development agencies as of February 1, 2012, and provides for the designation of successor agencies to, among other things, wind down the affairs of the dissolved redevelopment agencies and make payments due for enforceable obligations. In that regard, existing law requires the county auditor-controller to create within the county treasury a Redevelopment Property Tax Trust Fund (Fund) for the property tax revenues related to each former redevelopment agency for administration by the county auditor-controller."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20232024"
identifier: "AB 1270"
citation: "California AB 1270 (20232024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["City of Lake Forest", "Redevelopment", "successor agency"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Dixon"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 21
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2023-02-16"
last_action: "2023-10-04"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/57a75841-8e81-410d-af80-d38833d3df26"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB1270"
source_hash: "64d60db4bd543e96b90b30e813e8b947bc2333a758e18747b8e84f31a0c5b4bc"
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 1270 (20232024) — Redevelopment: successor agency: City of Lake Forest.

Existing law dissolved redevelopment agencies and community development agencies as of February 1, 2012, and provides for the designation of successor agencies to, among other things, wind down the affairs of the dissolved redevelopment agencies and make payments due for enforceable obligations. In that regard, existing law requires the county auditor-controller to create within the county treasury a Redevelopment Property Tax Trust Fund (Fund) for the property tax revenues related to each former redevelopment agency for administration by the county auditor-controller.

## Version chain

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

1. **02/16/23 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB1270&version=20230AB127099INT)
2. **03/16/23 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB1270&version=20230AB127098AMD)
3. **03/23/23 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB1270&version=20230AB127097AMD)
4. **10/04/23 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB1270&version=20230AB127095CHP)
5. **AB1270** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB1270)
6. **09/12/23 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB1270&version=20230AB127096ENR)

## Votes

- 3rd Reading AB1270 Dixon By Newman — **39–0** (pass) · upper
- Do pass. To Consent Calendar. — **15–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with recommendation: To Consent Calendar — **8–0** (pass) · lower
- AB 1270 Dixon Consent Calendar Second Day — **76–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **8–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Dixon — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-02-16** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
- **2023-02-17** From printer. May be heard in committee March 19.
- **2023-03-16** Referred to Com. on L. GOV. `referral-committee`
- **2023-03-16** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on L. GOV. Read second time and amended. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2`
- **2023-03-20** Re-referred to Com. on L. GOV. `referral-committee`
- **2023-03-23** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on L. GOV. Read second time and amended. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2`
- **2023-03-27** Re-referred to Com. on L. GOV. `referral-committee`
- **2023-04-27** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 8. Noes 0.) (April 26). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
- **2023-05-17** From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 15. Noes 0.) (May 17). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-05-18** Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2023-05-25** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 76. Noes 0. Page 1812.) `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2023-05-26** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2023-06-07** Referred to Com. on GOV. & F. `referral-committee`
- **2023-06-21** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 8. Noes 0.) (June 21). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
- **2023-07-03** From committee: Be ordered to second reading pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8. `committee-passage, reading-2`
- **2023-07-05** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2023-09-11** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 39. Noes 0. Page 2550.). `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2023-09-11** In Assembly. Ordered to Engrossing and Enrolling. `committee-passage`
- **2023-09-15** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.
- **2023-10-04** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2023-10-04** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 301, Statutes of 2023. `became-law`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/57a75841-8e81-410d-af80-d38833d3df26`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).