CA AB 698

in committee

Local taxation: real property transfers.

California · 2025-2026 Regular Session · lower

Quick answers

Did CA AB 698 pass?

Not yet. CA AB 698 is in committee as of 2025-06-09 and has not come to a final vote. Latest recorded action (2025-06-09): In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment.

What is CA AB 698 about?

Existing statutory law, enacted by Proposition 62, as approved by the voters at the November 4, 1986, statewide general election, prohibits a local government or district from imposing any transaction tax or sales tax on the sale of real property within the city, county, or district, except as provided. The California Constitution authorizes cities organized under a charter to make and enforce all ordinances and regulations in respect to municipal affairs, which supersede inconsistent general laws. Existing law, the Documentary Transfer Tax Act, authorizes the imposition of a tax by a county or city, as provided, with respect to specified instruments that transfer specified interests in real property. This bill would require a legislative body of a city, as specified, before it adopts any transfer tax on the sale of real property, to develop and post on its internet website an analysis that examines, at a minimum, the effect of the proposed transfer tax on, among other things, the production of affordable housing, including affordable housing produced by market-rate housing projects. The bill would include findings that changes proposed by this bill address a matter of statewide concern rather than a municipal affair and, therefore, apply to all cities, including charter cities.

Who sponsors CA AB 698?

Wicks is the primary sponsor of CA AB 698, joined by 1 cosponsor.

Description

Introduced: 2025-03-28
Latest action: 2025-06-09 — In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment.
Bill type: bill
Last updated: —

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Committees

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Action timeline

2025-02-14
Read first time. To print.
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2025-02-15
From printer. May be heard in committee March 17.
2025-03-28
Referred to Com. on L. GOV.
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2025-03-28
From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on L. GOV. Read second time and amended.
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2025-04-01
Re-referred to Com. on L. GOV.
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2025-05-01
From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 10. Noes 0.) (April 30).
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2025-05-05
Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading.
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2025-05-06
Read second time. Ordered to third reading.
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2025-06-02
Read third time and amended. Ordered to third reading. (Page 1951.)
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2025-06-05
Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 68. Noes 0. Page 2102.)
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2025-06-09
In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment.
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Versions

02/14/25 - Introduced — 2025-02-14Compare
03/28/25 - Amended Assembly — 2025-03-28Compare
05/05/25 - Amended Assembly — 2025-05-05Compare
06/02/25 - Amended Assembly — 2025-06-02Compare
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Votes

Do pass as amended.
2025-04-30 · pass · 10-0
Member-level votes (10)
- Stefani: yes
- Ransom: yes
- Pacheco: yes
- Ward: yes
- Wilson: yes
- Blanca Rubio: yes
- Ta: yes
- Carrillo: yes
- Ramos: yes
- Hoover: yes
AB 698 Wicks Assembly Third Reading
2025-06-05 · pass · 68-0
Member-level votes (79)
- Gallagher: yes
- Tangipa: yes
- Castillo: yes
- Hadwick: yes
- Petrie-Norris: yes
- Jeff Gonzalez: yes
- Schultz: yes
- Aguiar-Curry: yes
- Carrillo: yes
- Patel: yes
- Solache: yes
- Quirk-Silva: yes
- Nguyen: yes
- Flora: yes
- Alanis: yes
- Wallis: yes
- Macedo: yes
- Gabriel: yes
- Gipson: yes
- Ransom: yes
- Patterson: yes
- Bains: yes
- Haney: yes
- Lackey: yes
- Krell: yes
- Sharp-Collins: yes
- Ward: yes
- Wicks: yes
- Fong: yes
- Harabedian: yes
- Lowenthal: yes
- Dixon: yes
- Sanchez: yes
- Muratsuchi: yes
- Bauer-Kahan: yes
- Papan: yes
- Rivas: yes
- McKinnor: yes
- Michelle Rodriguez: yes
- Ahrens: yes
- Davies: yes
- Arambula: yes
- Garcia: yes
- Ramos: yes
- Celeste Rodriguez: yes
- Bennett: yes
- Connolly: yes
- Irwin: yes
- Mark González: yes
- Pacheco: yes
- Wilson: yes
- Blanca Rubio: yes
- Calderon: yes
- Hoover: yes
- Rogers: yes
- DeMaio: yes
- Pellerin: yes
- Alvarez: yes
- Stefani: yes
- Valencia: yes
- Ta: yes
- Boerner: yes
- Elhawary: yes
- Ellis: yes
- Jackson: yes
- Berman: yes
- Soria: yes
- Ávila Farías: yes
- Chen: other
- Caloza: other
- Hart: other
- Kalra: other
- Schiavo: other
- Bonta: other
- Ortega: other
- Bryan: other
- Addis: other
- Lee: other
- Zbur: other

Related bills

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Official source

http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB698

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