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CA AB 761

enacted

Monterey-Salinas Transit District: sales and special taxes.

California · 2025-2026 Regular Session · lower

Quick answers

Did CA AB 761 pass?

Yes. CA AB 761 has been enacted into law as of 2025-10-13. Latest recorded action (2025-10-13): Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 706, Statutes of 2025.

What is CA AB 761 about?

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. 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.

Who sponsors CA AB 761?

Addis is the primary sponsor of CA AB 761.

Description

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. 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.

Introduced
2025-03-28
Latest action
2025-10-13 — Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 706, Statutes of 2025.
Bill type
bill
Last updated
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Subjects

Sponsors

  • Addisauthor

Committees

Not provided by source.

Action timeline

  1. 2025-02-18

    Read first time. To print.

    reading-1

  2. 2025-02-19

    From printer. May be heard in committee March 21.

  3. 2025-03-03

    Referred to Coms. on L. GOV. and REV. & TAX.

    referral-committee

  4. 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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  5. 2025-04-01

    Re-referred to Com. on L. GOV.

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  6. 2025-04-10

    From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on REV. & TAX. (Ayes 8. Noes 2.) (April 9). Re-referred to Com. on REV. & TAX.

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  7. 2025-04-21

    In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.

  8. 2025-04-29

    From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 5. Noes 2.) (April 28).

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  9. 2025-04-30

    Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading.

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  10. 2025-05-01

    Read second time. Ordered to third reading.

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  11. 2025-05-19

    Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 56. Noes 14. Page 1593.)

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  12. 2025-05-20

    In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment.

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  13. 2025-05-28

    Referred to Coms. on TRANS. and REV. & TAX.

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  14. 2025-06-25

    From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on REV. & TAX. (Ayes 11. Noes 3.) (June 24). Re-referred to Com. on REV. & TAX.

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  15. 2025-07-09

    From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 4. Noes 1.) (July 9).

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  16. 2025-07-10

    Read second time. Ordered to third reading.

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  17. 2025-09-09

    Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 30. Noes 10. Page 2698.).

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  18. 2025-09-09

    In Assembly. Ordered to Engrossing and Enrolling.

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  19. 2025-09-16

    Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 2 p.m.

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  20. 2025-10-13

    Approved by the Governor.

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  21. 2025-10-13

    Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 706, Statutes of 2025.

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Versions

  • 02/18/25 - Introduced — 2025-02-18Compare
  • 03/28/25 - Amended Assembly — 2025-03-28Compare
  • 04/30/25 - Amended Assembly — 2025-04-30Compare
  • 09/11/25 - Enrolled — 2025-09-11Compare
  • 10/13/25 - Chaptered — 2025-10-13Compare
  • AB761Compare
  • (document, no version)Compare

Documents

Votes

  • Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Revenue and Taxation]

    2025-04-09 · pass · 8-2

    Member-level votes (10)
    • Stefani: yes
    • Pacheco: yes
    • Ward: yes
    • Wilson: yes
    • Ramos: yes
    • Blanca Rubio: yes
    • Carrillo: yes
    • Ransom: yes
    • Ta: no
    • Hoover: no

  • Do pass as amended.

    2025-04-28 · pass · 5-2

    Member-level votes (7)
    • Quirk-Silva: yes
    • McKinnor: yes
    • Garcia: yes
    • Bains: yes
    • Gipson: yes
    • Ta: no
    • DeMaio: no

  • AB 761 Addis Assembly Third Reading

    2025-05-19 · pass · 56-14

    Member-level votes (79)
    • Solache: yes
    • Zbur: yes
    • Fong: yes
    • Kalra: yes
    • Michelle Rodriguez: yes
    • Ransom: yes
    • Rivas: yes
    • Ramos: yes
    • Pellerin: yes
    • Wilson: yes
    • Ortega: yes
    • Schultz: yes
    • Boerner: yes
    • Wicks: yes
    • Sharp-Collins: yes
    • Haney: yes
    • Gabriel: yes
    • Nguyen: yes
    • Pacheco: yes
    • Harabedian: yes
    • Bennett: yes
    • Bonta: yes
    • Addis: yes
    • Krell: yes
    • Arambula: yes
    • Ward: yes
    • Mark González: yes
    • Quirk-Silva: yes
    • Lowenthal: yes
    • Celeste Rodriguez: yes
    • Ahrens: yes
    • Jackson: yes
    • Hart: yes
    • Valencia: yes
    • Berman: yes
    • Bains: yes
    • Garcia: yes
    • Aguiar-Curry: yes
    • Alvarez: yes
    • Connolly: yes
    • Gipson: yes
    • Stefani: yes
    • Bryan: yes
    • Schiavo: yes
    • Rogers: yes
    • Caloza: yes
    • Blanca Rubio: yes
    • McKinnor: yes
    • Elhawary: yes
    • Carrillo: yes
    • Patel: yes
    • Calderon: yes
    • Irwin: yes
    • Lee: yes
    • Petrie-Norris: yes
    • Ávila Farías: yes
    • Chen: no
    • DeMaio: no
    • Lackey: no
    • Sanchez: no
    • Wallis: no
    • Patterson: no
    • Castillo: no
    • Ta: no
    • Hadwick: no
    • Gallagher: no
    • Macedo: no
    • Davies: no
    • Hoover: no
    • Tangipa: no
    • Ellis: other
    • Papan: other
    • Bauer-Kahan: other
    • Dixon: other
    • Alanis: other
    • Flora: other
    • Muratsuchi: other
    • Soria: other
    • Jeff Gonzalez: other

  • Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Revenue and Taxation]

    2025-06-24 · pass · 11-3

    Member-level votes (15)
    • Archuleta: yes
    • Gonzalez: yes
    • Menjivar: yes
    • Umberg: yes
    • Cervantes: yes
    • Blakespear: yes
    • Richardson: yes
    • Cortese: yes
    • Arreguín: yes
    • Limón: yes
    • Grayson: yes
    • Seyarto: no
    • Strickland: no
    • Dahle: no
    • Valladares: other

  • Do pass

    2025-07-09 · pass · 4-1

    Member-level votes (5)
    • Ashby: yes
    • McNerney: yes
    • Grayson: yes
    • Umberg: yes
    • Valladares: no

  • 3rd Reading AB761 Addis By Laird

    2025-09-09 · pass · 30-10

    Member-level votes (40)
    • Richardson: yes
    • Menjivar: yes
    • Cortese: yes
    • Weber Pierson: yes
    • McNerney: yes
    • Stern: yes
    • Smallwood-Cuevas: yes
    • Becker: yes
    • McGuire: yes
    • Cervantes: yes
    • Hurtado: yes
    • Cabaldon: yes
    • Rubio: yes
    • Durazo: yes
    • Laird: yes
    • Padilla: yes
    • Limón: yes
    • Pérez: yes
    • Reyes: yes
    • Archuleta: yes
    • Wiener: yes
    • Ashby: yes
    • Arreguín: yes
    • Grayson: yes
    • Allen: yes
    • Gonzalez: yes
    • Caballero: yes
    • Wahab: yes
    • Umberg: yes
    • Blakespear: yes
    • Niello: no
    • Ochoa Bogh: no
    • Dahle: no
    • Grove: no
    • Jones: no
    • Valladares: no
    • Seyarto: no
    • Strickland: no
    • Choi: no
    • Alvarado-Gil: no

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