(a) The agency may, from time to time, issue its bonds in the principal amount that the agency determines necessary to provide sufficient funds for financing housing developments and other residential structures, the payment of interest on bonds of the agency, the establishment of reserves to secure the bonds, the payment of other expenditures of the agency incident to, and necessary or convenient to, issuance of the bonds, and for the other purposes provided by Sections 51065.5 and 51365.

(b) (1) Sale of the bonds of the agency shall be coordinated by the Treasurer. To obtain a date for the sale of bonds, the agency shall inform the Treasurer of the amount of the proposed issue. Upon that notification, the Treasurer shall provide three 10-day periods, within the 90 days next following, when the bonds can be sold. The agency may choose any date during the suggested periods or any other date to which the agency and the Treasurer have mutually agreed. The Treasurer shall sell the bonds on the date chosen according to terms approved by the agency.

(2) The agency shall exercise its powers with due regard for the right of the holders of bonds of the agency at any time outstanding, and nothing in, or done pursuant to, this section shall in any way limit, restrict, or alter the obligation or powers of the agency or any member, officer, or representative of the agency or the Treasurer to carry out and perform in every detail each and every covenant, agreement, or contract at any time made or entered into on behalf of the agency with respect to its bonds or its benefits, or the security of the holders of the bonds.

(c) Except as provided in subdivisions (d) to (h), inclusive, the aggregate principal amount of bonds that may be outstanding at any time pursuant to this part shall not exceed seven hundred fifty million dollars ($750,000,000), exclusive of the principal indebtedness of bonds issued to refund or renew previously issued bonds of the agency, to the extent of the outstanding principal indebtedness of the previously issued bonds and any redemption premium thereon and any interest accrued or to accrue to the date of redemption of the bonds, during the period in which both the previously issued bonds and the refunding or renewal bonds are outstanding.

(d) Effective January 1, 1980, the aggregate principal amount of bonds that may be outstanding at any time pursuant to this part shall be increased by seven hundred fifty million dollars ($750,000,000), exclusive of (1) bonds previously authorized pursuant to subdivision (c), and (2) the principal indebtedness of bonds issued to refund or renew bonds of the agency previously issued under the authority of this subdivision, but only to the extent of the outstanding principal indebtedness of the previously issued bonds and any redemption premium thereon and any interest accrued or to accrue to the date of redemption of the bonds, during the period in which both the previously issued bonds and the refunding or renewal bonds are outstanding.

(e) Effective January 1, 1983, the aggregate principal amount of bonds that may be outstanding at any time pursuant to this part shall be additionally increased by three hundred fifty million dollars ($350,000,000) exclusive of (1) bonds previously authorized pursuant to subdivision (c) or (d), and (2) the principal indebtedness of bonds issued to refund or renew bonds of the agency previously issued under the authority of this subdivision, but only to the extent of the outstanding principal indebtedness of the previously issued bonds and any redemption premium thereon and any interest accrued or to accrue to the date of the redemption of the bonds, during the period in which both the previously issued bonds and the refunding or renewal bonds are outstanding.

(f) Effective January 1, 1984, the aggregate principal amount of bonds that may be outstanding at any time pursuant to this part shall be additionally increased by five hundred million dollars ($500,000,000), exclusive of (1) bonds previously authorized pursuant to any of subdivisions (c) to (e), inclusive, and (2) the principal indebtedness of bonds issued to refund or renew bonds of the agency previously issued under the authority of this subdivision, but only to the extent of the outstanding principal indebtedness of the previously issued bonds and any redemption premium thereon and any interest accrued or to accrue to the date of the redemption of the bonds, during the period in which both the previously issued bonds and the refunding or renewal bonds are outstanding.

(g) On the effective date of the amendments to this section enacted by the Statutes of 1985, the aggregate principal amount of bonds that may be outstanding at any time pursuant to this part shall be additionally increased by six hundred million dollars ($600,000,000), exclusive of (1) bonds previously authorized pursuant to any of subdivisions (c) to (f), inclusive, and (2) the principal indebtedness of bonds issued to refund or renew bonds of the agency previously issued under the authority of this subdivision, but only to the extent of the outstanding principal indebtedness of the previously issued bonds and any redemption premium thereon and any interest accrued or to accrue to the date of the redemption of the bonds, during the period in which both the previously issued bonds and the refunding or renewal bonds are outstanding.

(h) On the effective date of the amendments to this section enacted by the Statutes of 1985, the aggregate principal amount of bonds that may be outstanding at any time pursuant to this part shall be additionally increased by six hundred million dollars ($600,000,000), exclusive of (1) bonds previously authorized pursuant to any of subdivisions (c) to (g), inclusive, and (2) the principal indebtedness of bonds issued to refund or renew bonds of the agency previously issued under the authority of this subdivision, but only to the extent of the outstanding principal indebtedness of the previously issued bonds and any redemption premium thereon and any interest accrued or to accrue to the date of the redemption of the bonds, during the period in which both the previously issued bonds and the refunding or renewal bonds are outstanding.

(i) Effective September 4, 1990, the aggregate principal amount of bonds that may be outstanding at any one time pursuant to this part shall be additionally increased by nine hundred million dollars ($900,000,000), exclusive of the following: (1) bonds previously authorized pursuant to any of subdivisions (c) to (h), inclusive, and (2) the principal indebtedness of bonds issued to refund or renew bonds of the agency previously issued under the authority of this subdivision, but only to the extent of the outstanding principal indebtedness of the previously issued bonds and any redemption premium thereon and any interest accrued or to accrue to the date of the redemption of the bonds, during the period in which both the previously issued bonds and the refunding or renewal bonds are outstanding.

(j) On the effective date of the amendments to this section which added this subdivision, the aggregate principal amount of bonds that may be outstanding at any one time pursuant to this part shall be additionally increased by nine hundred million dollars ($900,000,000), exclusive of the following: (1) bonds previously authorized pursuant to any of subdivisions (c) to (i), inclusive, and (2) the principal indebtedness of bonds issued to refund or renew bonds of the agency previously issued under the authority of this subdivision, but only to the extent of the outstanding principal indebtedness of the previously issued bonds and any redemption premium thereon and any interest accrued or to accrue to the date of the redemption of the bonds, during the period in which both the previously issued bonds and the refunding or renewal bonds are outstanding.

(k) Effective January 1, 1998, the aggregate principal amount of bonds that may be outstanding at any one time pursuant to this part shall be additionally increased by one billion four hundred million dollars ($1,400,000,000), exclusive of: (1) bonds previously authorized pursuant to any of subdivisions (c) to (j), inclusive, and (2) the principal indebtedness of bonds issued to refund or renew bonds of the agency previously issued under the authority of this subdivision, but only to the extent of the outstanding principal indebtedness of the previously issued bonds and any redemption premium thereon and any interest accrued or to accrue to the date of the redemption of the bonds, during the period in which both the previously issued bonds and the refunding or renewal bonds are outstanding.

(l) Effective January 1, 2000, the aggregate principal amount of bonds that may be outstanding at any one time pursuant to this part shall be additionally increased by two billion two hundred million dollars ($2,200,000,000), exclusive of: (1) bonds previously authorized pursuant to any of subdivisions (c) to (k), inclusive, and (2) the principal indebtedness of bonds issued to refund or renew bonds of the agency previously issued under the authority of this subdivision, but only to the extent of the outstanding principal indebtedness of the previously issued bonds and any redemption premium thereon and any interest accrued or to accrue to the date of the redemption of the bonds, during the period in which both the previously issued bonds and the refunding or renewal bonds are outstanding.

(m) Effective January 1, 2002, the aggregate principal amount of bonds that may be outstanding at any one time pursuant to this part shall be increased by two billion two hundred million dollars ($2,200,000,000), exclusive of (1) bonds previously authorized pursuant to any of subdivisions (c) to (l), inclusive, and (2) the principal indebtedness of bonds issued to refund or renew bonds of the agency previously issued under the authority of this subdivision, but only to the extent of the outstanding principal indebtedness of the previously issued bonds and any redemption premium thereon and any interest accrued or to accrue to the date of the redemption of the bonds, during the period in which both the previously issued bonds and the refunding or renewal bonds are outstanding.

(n) Effective January 1, 2008, the aggregate principal amount of bonds that may be outstanding at any one time pursuant to this part shall be increased by two billion dollars ($2,000,000,000), exclusive of (1) bonds previously authorized pursuant to any of subdivisions (c) to (m), inclusive, and (2) the principal indebtedness of bonds issued to refund or renew bonds of the agency previously issued under the authority of this subdivision, but only to the extent of the outstanding principal indebtedness of the previously issued bonds and any redemption premium thereon and any interest accrued or to accrue to the date of the redemption of the bonds, during the period in which both the previously issued bonds and the refunding or renewal bonds are outstanding.

(Amended by Stats. 2007, Ch. 274, Sec. 1. Effective January 1, 2008.)