CaliforniaMonterey-Salinas Transit District: sales and special taxes.
What it does
Existing law creates the Monterey-Salinas Transit District to include all of the County of Monterey, with specified powers and duties related to public transit service. Existing law prohibits the district from imposing sales or special taxes, but authorizes the district, with the concurrence of a majority of the member jurisdictions represented on the board of directors, to submit a ballot measure for the imposition of those taxes to voters of the district.
More detail
This bill would prohibit the submission of a measure for the imposition of a sales or special tax to the voters of the district under this authority on or after January 1, 2026.
Existing law authorizes various local governmental entities, subject to certain limitations and approval requirements, to levy a transactions and use tax, in accordance with the procedures and requirements set forth in the Transactions and Use Tax Law, including a requirement that the combined rate of all taxes that may be imposed in accordance with that law in the county not exceed 2%.
This bill would authorize the Monterey-Salinas Transit District, upon the affirmative vote of at least 23 of the board of directors, to submit to the voters of the district a measure proposing a retail transactions and use tax ordinance in accordance with the Transactions and Use Tax Law.
The bill would also separately authorize the district to impose a transactions and use tax for the support of its transportation services at a rate of no more than 0.25% that would, in combination with other transactions and use taxes, exceed the above-described combined rate limit of 2%, if the ordinance proposing the tax is approved by the voters before January 1, 2035, subject to applicable voter approval requirements, as specified. The bill would prohibit a transactions and use tax rate imposed pursuant to this authority from being considered for purposes of that combined rate limit described above.
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- Introduced
- Passed Assembly
- Passed Senate
- To Governor
- Became Law
Looking ahead
No hearings or votes scheduled.
History
- 2025
- Oct 13Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 706, Statutes of 2025.Latest
- Oct 13Approved by the Governor Gavin Newsom.Became Law
- Sep 16Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 2 p.m.To Governor
- Sep 9In Assembly. Ordered to Engrossing and Enrolling.Minor
- Vote recorded 3rd Reading AB761 Addis By Laird. Result: pass.Upper
- Sep 9Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 30. Noes 10. Page 2698.).Passed Senate
- Jul 10Read second time. Ordered to third reading.Minor
- Jul 9From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 4. Noes 1.) (July 9).Minor
- Vote recorded Do pass. Result: pass.Upper
- Jun 25From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on REV. & TAX. (Ayes 11. Noes 3.) (June 24). Re-referred to Com. on REV. & TAX.Minor
- Jun 24
- Vote recorded Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Revenue and Taxation]. Result: pass.Upper
- May 28Referred to Coms. on TRANS. and REV. & TAX.Minor
- May 20In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment.Minor
- May 19Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 56. Noes 14. Page 1593.)Passed Assembly
- Vote recorded AB 761 Addis Assembly Third Reading. Result: pass.Lower
- May 1Read second time. Ordered to third reading.Minor
- Apr 30Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading.Major
- Apr 29From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 5. Noes 2.) (April 28).Major
- Apr 28
- Vote recorded Do pass as amended. Result: pass.Lower
- Apr 21In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
- Apr 10From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on REV. & TAX. (Ayes 8. Noes 2.) (April 9). Re-referred to Com. on REV. & TAX.Minor
- Apr 9
- Vote recorded Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Revenue and Taxation]. Result: pass.Lower
- Apr 1Re-referred to Com. on L. GOV.Minor
- Mar 28From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on L. GOV. Read second time and amended.Major
- Mar 3Referred to Coms. on L. GOV. and REV. & TAX.Minor
- Feb 19From printer. May be heard in committee March 21.
- Feb 18Read first time. To print.Introduced