Stanford law professor Joseph Bankman spent $35,000 of his own money hiring a lobbyist to advocate for making ReadyReturn permanent. On the day supporters planned to bring the bill to a vote, Bankman received a call from a politician friend who told him they were one vote short of the support needed to bring it to the floor. The bill died without ever reaching a vote. Between 2001 and 2010, Intuit spent more than $1.7 million lobbying in California to kill ReadyReturn.