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Summary Prospectus January 1, 2010 American Century Investments® California High-Yield Municipal Fund

Investor Class: BCHYX A Class: CAYAX	B Class: CAYBX (closed) C Class: CAYCX


	Before you invest, you may want to review the fund’s prospectus, which contains more information about the fund and its risks. You can find the fund’s prospectus and other information about the fund online at the web addresses listed below. You can also get this information at no cost by calling or sending an email request. The fund’s prospectus and other information are also available from financial intermediaries (such as banks and broker-dealers) through which shares of the fund may be purchased or sold.

	Retail Investors americancentury.com/funds/fund_reports.jsp 1-800-345-2021 or 816-531-5575 prospectus@americancentury.com	Financial Professionals americancentury.com/ipro/funds/fund_reports_mf.jsp 1-800-345-6488 advisor_prospectus@americancentury.com

	This summary prospectus incorporates by reference the fund’s prospectus and statement of additional information (SAI), each dated January 1, 2010, as well as the Report of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm and the financial statements included in the fund’s annual report to shareholders, dated August 31, 2009. The fund's SAI and annual report may be obtained, free of charge, in the same manner as the prospectus.

Investment Objective

The fund seeks high current income that is exempt from federal and California income taxes.

Fees and Expenses

The following table describes the fees and expenses you may pay if you buy and hold shares of the fund. You may qualify for sales charge discounts if you and your family invest, or agree to invest in the future, at least $100,000 in American Century Investments funds. More information about these and other discounts is available from your financial professional and in Calculation of Sales Charges on page 14 of the fund’s prospectus and Sales Charges on page 50 of the statement of additional information. The fund’s B Class shares are not available for purchase, except through exchanges and dividend reinvestments.


Shareholder Fees (fees paid directly from your investment)
	Investor	A	B	C
Maximum Sales Charge (Load) Imposed on Purchases (as a percentage of offering price)	None	4.50%	None	None
Maximum Deferred Sales Charge (Load) (as a percentage of the original offering price for B Class shares or the lower of the original offering price or redemption proceeds for A and C Class shares)	None	None(1)	5.00%	1.00%
Maximum Account Maintenance Fee	$25(2)	None	None	None
Annual Fund Operating Expenses (expenses that you pay each year as a percentage of the value of your investment)
	Investor	A	B	C
Management Fee	0.51%	0.51%	0.51%	0.51%
Distribution and Service (12b-1) Fees	None	0.25%	1.00%	1.00%
Other Expenses	0.01%	0.01%	0.01%	0.01%
Total Annual Fund Operating Expenses	0.52%	0.77%	1.52%	1.52%

1	Investments of $1 million or more in A Class shares may be subject to a contingent deferred sales charge of 1.00% if the shares are redeemed within one year of the date of purchase.

2	Applies only to investors whose total eligible investments with American Century Investments are less than $10,000.

Example

The example below is intended to help you compare the costs of investing in the fund with the costs of investing in other mutual funds. The example assumes that you invest $10,000 in the fund for the time periods indicated and then redeem all of your shares at the end of those periods (unless otherwise indicated), that you earn a 5% return each year, and that the fund’s operating expenses remain the same. Although your actual costs may be higher or lower, based on these assumptions your costs would be:

	1 year	3 years	5 years	10 years
Investor Class	$53	$167	$291	$653
A Class	$525	$685	$859	$1,362
B Class	$555	$781	$930	$1,609
B Class (if shares not redeemed)	$155	$481	$830	$1,609
C Class	$155	$481	$830	$1,811

Portfolio Turnover

The fund pays transaction costs, such as commissions, when it buys and sells securities (or “turns over” its portfolio). A higher portfolio turnover rate may indicate higher transaction costs and may result in higher taxes when fund shares are held in a taxable account. These costs, which are not reflected in annual fund operating expenses or in the example, affect the fund’s performance. During the most recent fiscal year, the fund’s portfolio turnover rate was 26% of the average value of its portfolio.

Principal Investments, Principal Risks and Performance

The fund invests in California municipal and other debt securities with an emphasis on high-yield securities. A high-yield security is one that has been rated below investment-grade, or determined by the investment advisor to be of similar quality. Under normal market conditions, the portfolio manager invests at least 80% of the fund’s assets in municipal securities with income payments exempt from federal and California income taxes. Cities, counties and other municipalities in California and U. S. territories usually issue these securities for public projects, such as schools, roads, and water and sewer systems. Some of these investments are not necessarily exempt from the federal alternative minimum tax.

The portfolio manager seeks to invest in securities that will result in a high yield for the fund. To accomplish this, the portfolio manager buys securities that are rated below investment-grade, including so-called junk bonds and bonds that are in technical or monetary default. Issuers of these securities often have short financial histories or have questionable credit or have had and may continue to have problems making interest and principal payments.

The portfolio manager also may buy unrated securities if he determines such securities meet the investment objectives of the fund.

Although the fund invests primarily for income, it also employs techniques designed to realize capital appreciation. For example, the portfolio manager may select bonds with maturities and coupon rates that position the fund for potential capital appreciation for a variety of reasons, including his view on the direction of future interest-rate movements and the potential for a credit upgrade.

When determining whether to sell a security, the portfolio manager considers, among other things, current and anticipated changes in interest rates, the credit quality of a particular issuer, comparable alternatives, general market conditions and any other factor deemed relevant by the portfolio manager.

The fund’s principal risks include

•	Credit Risk – The fund’s investments often have high credit risk, which helps the fund pursue a higher yield than more conservatively managed bond funds. Issuers of high-yield securities are more vulnerable to real or perceived economic changes (such as an economic downturn or a prolonged period of rising interest rates), political changes or adverse developments specific to the issuer. Adverse economic, political and other developments may be more likely to cause an issuer of low-quality bonds to default on its obligation to pay interest and principal due under its securities.

	The fund invests a significant part of its assets in securities rated below investment-grade or that are unrated, including bonds that are in technical or monetary default. By definition, the issuers of many of these securities have had and may continue to have problems making interest and principal payments.

•	Nondiversification – The fund is classified as nondiversified. A nondiversified fund may invest a greater percentage of its assets in a smaller number of securities than a diversified fund. This gives the managers the flexibility to hold large positions in a small number of securities. If so, a price change in any one of those securities may have a greater impact on the fund’s share price than would be the case in a diversified fund.

•	Interest Rate Risk – When interest rates change, the fund’s share value will be affected. Generally, the value of debt securities and the funds that hold them decline as interest rates rise. Because the fund typically invests in intermediate-term and long-term bonds, the fund’s interest rate risk is generally higher than for funds with shorter-weighted average maturities, such as money market and short-term bond funds.

•	California Economic Risk – The fund will be sensitive to events that affect California’s economy. Significant political or economic developments in California will likely impact virtually all municipal securities issued in the state. Because the fund invests primarily in California municipal securities, it may have a higher level of risk than funds that invest in a larger universe of securities.

•	Municipal Securities Risk – Because the fund invests primarily in municipal securities, it will be sensitive to events that affect municipal markets, including legislative or political changes and the financial condition of the issuers of municipal securities. The fund may have a higher level of risk than funds that invest in a larger universe of securities.

•	Liquidity Risk – The fund may also be subject to liquidity risk. During periods of market turbulence or unusually low trading activity, in order to meet redemptions, it may be necessary for the fund to sell securities at prices that could have an adverse effect on the fund’s share price.

•	Tax Risk – Some or all of the fund’s income may be subject to the federal alternative minimum tax. There is no guarantee that all of the fund’s income will remain exempt from federal or state income taxes. Income from municipal bonds held by a fund could be declared taxable because of unfavorable changes in tax laws, adverse interpretations by the Internal Revenue Service or state tax authorities, or noncompliant conduct of a bond issuer.

•	Principal Loss – At any given time your shares may be worth less than the price you paid for them. In other words, it is possible to lose money by investing in the fund.

An investment in the fund is not a bank deposit, and it is not insured or guaranteed by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) or any other government agency.

Annual Total Returns

The following bar chart and table provide some indication of the risks of investing in the fund. The bar chart shows changes in the fund’s performance from year to year for Investor Class shares. The table shows how the fund’s average annual returns for the periods shown compared with those of a broad measure of market performance. The fund’s past performance (before and after taxes) is not necessarily an indication of how the fund will perform in the future. For current performance information, including yields, please visit americancentury.com.

Sales charges and account fees, if applicable, are not reflected in the bar chart. If those charges were included, returns would be less than those shown.

Highest Performance Quarter

(3Q 2002): 5.93%

Lowest Performance Quarter

(4Q 2008): -9.36%

As of September 30, 2009, the most recent calendar quarter end, the fund’s Investor Class year-to-date return was 23.14%

For the calendar year ended December 31, 2008	1 year	5 years	10 years	Since Inception	Inception Date
Investor Class Return Before Taxes	-13.52%	0.77%	3.21%	5.19%	12/30/1986
Return After Taxes on Distributions	-13.52%	0.77%	3.21%	5.14%	12/30/1986
Return After Taxes on Distributions and Sale of Fund Shares	-7.06%	1.49%	3.56%	5.28%	12/30/1986
A Class Return Before Taxes	-17.61%	-0.40%	—	0.65%	1/31/2003
B Class Return Before Taxes	-18.39%	-0.43%	—	0.51%	1/31/2003
C Class Return Before Taxes	-14.39%	-0.23%	—	0.72%	1/31/2003
Barclays Capital Long-Term Municipal Bond Index (reflects no deduction for fees, expenses and taxes)	-14.68%	0.82%	3.36%	6.24%(1)	—

1	Reflects benchmark performance since the date closest to the Investor Class’s inception for which data is available.

After-tax returns are shown only for Investor Class shares. After-tax returns for other share classes will vary. After-tax returns are calculated using the historical highest individual federal marginal income tax rates and do not reflect the impact of state and local taxes. Actual after-tax returns depend on an investor’s tax situation and may differ from those shown. After-tax returns are not relevant to investors who hold their fund shares through tax-deferred arrangements, such as 401(k) plans or IRAs.

Portfolio Management

Investment Advisor

American Century Investment Management, Inc.

Portfolio Manager

Steven M. Permut, Senior Vice President and Senior Portfolio Manager, has had or shared primary responsibility for the management of the fund since 1988, and has served on teams managing fixed-income investments since joining the advisor in 1987.

Purchase and Sale of Fund Shares

You may purchase or redeem shares of the fund on any business day through our Web site at americancentury.com, by mail (American Century Investments, P.O. Box 419200, Kansas City, MO 64141-6200), or by telephone at 1-800-345-2021 (Investor Services Representative) or 1-800-345-3533 (Business and Not-For-Profit Plans). Shares may be purchased by electronic bank transfer, by check or by wire. You may receive redemption proceeds by electronic bank transfer or by check.

Unless otherwise specified below, the minimum initial investment amount to open an account is $5,000. Financial intermediaries may open an account with $250, but may require their clients to meet different investment minimums. Broker-dealer sponsored wrap program accounts and fee based accounts do not have a minimum purchase amount. The minimum initial investment amount for Coverdell Education Savings Accounts (CESA) is $5,000 unless the account is opened through a financial intermediary. To establish a CESA, you must exchange from another American Century Investments CESA or roll over a minimum of $5,000 in order to meet the fund’s minimum. The fund is not available for employer-sponsored retirement plans and generally is inappropriate for tax-deferred accounts, such as IRAs and 403(b) custodial accounts.

There is a $50 minimum for subsequent purchases, except that there is no subsequent purchase minimum for financial intermediaries or employer-sponsored retirement plans. For purposes of fund minimums, employer-sponsored retirement plans do not include SEP IRAs, SIMPLE IRAs or SARSEPs.

Tax Information

The fund intends to distribute income that is exempt from regular federal and California income tax, however, fund distributions may be subject to capital gains tax. A portion of the fund’s distributions may be subject to federal and/or California income taxes or to the federal alternative minimum tax.

Payments to Broker-Dealers and Other Financial Intermediaries

If you purchase the fund through a broker-dealer or other financial intermediary (such as a bank, insurance company, plan sponsor or financial professional), the fund and its related companies may pay the intermediary for the sale of fund shares and related services. These payments may create a conflict of interest by influencing the broker-dealer or other intermediary and your salesperson to recommend the fund over another investment. Ask your salesperson or visit your financial intermediary’s Web site for more information.

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