CA SB 263
vetoedInternational trade: tariffs: impact study.
California · 2025-2026 Regular Session · upper
Quick answers
Did CA SB 263 pass?
No. CA SB 263 passed the legislature but was vetoed on 2026-03-02. Latest recorded action (2026-03-02): Veto sustained.
What is CA SB 263 about?
Existing law establishes the Governor's Office of Business and Economic Development ("GO-Biz") to, among other duties, serve the Governor as the lead entity for economic strategy and the marketing of California on issues relating to business development, private sector investment, and economic growth. Existing law requires the Transportation Agency to establish a freight advisory committee to, among other things, participate in the development of the state freight plan. This bill would require GO-Biz, in consultation with the Department of Finance and the Transportation Agency, to conduct a study on the impacts that increases in tariffs and reciprocal tariffs have on the state's international trade of imports and exports, as specified. The bill would also require GO-Biz to provide resources to support the international trade activities of California small businesses. The bill would require the agency to convene the freight advisory committee to discuss the scope of the study upon GO-Biz initiating the study. On or before January 1, 2029, the bill would require GO-Biz, to submit the study to the Legislature, as specified.
Who sponsors CA SB 263?
Gonzalez is the primary sponsor of CA SB 263, joined by 6 cosponsors.
Description
Existing law establishes the Governor's Office of Business and Economic Development ("GO-Biz") to, among other duties, serve the Governor as the lead entity for economic strategy and the marketing of California on issues relating to business development, private sector investment, and economic growth. Existing law requires the Transportation Agency to establish a freight advisory committee to, among other things, participate in the development of the state freight plan. This bill would require GO-Biz, in consultation with the Department of Finance and the Transportation Agency, to conduct a study on the impacts that increases in tariffs and reciprocal tariffs have on the state's international trade of imports and exports, as specified. The bill would also require GO-Biz to provide resources to support the international trade activities of California small businesses. The bill would require the agency to convene the freight advisory committee to discuss the scope of the study upon GO-Biz initiating the study. On or before January 1, 2029, the bill would require GO-Biz, to submit the study to the Legislature, as specified.
- Introduced
- 2025-02-03
- Latest action
- 2026-03-02 — Veto sustained.
- Bill type
- bill
- Last updated
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Subjects
Sponsors
- Gonzalezauthor
- Weber Piersoncoauthor
- Lowenthalcoauthor
- Calozacoauthor
- Jacksoncoauthor
- Rogerscoauthor
- Solachecoauthor
Committees
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Action timeline
2025-02-03
Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print.
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2025-02-04
From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 6.
2025-02-14
Referred to Coms. on TRANS. and B. P. & E.D.
referral-committee
2025-03-13
From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on TRANS.
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2025-03-17
Set for hearing March 25.
2025-03-26
From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on B. P. & E.D. (Ayes 14. Noes 0. Page 534.) (March 25). Re-referred to Com. on B. P. & E.D.
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2025-04-03
Set for hearing April 28.
2025-04-28
From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 11. Noes 0. Page 916.) (April 28). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
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2025-05-02
Set for hearing May 12.
2025-05-12
May 12 hearing: Placed on APPR. suspense file.
2025-05-16
Set for hearing May 23.
2025-05-23
From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 6. Noes 0. Page 1193.) (May 23).
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2025-05-23
Read second time and amended. Ordered to second reading.
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2025-05-27
Read second time. Ordered to third reading.
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2025-05-28
Read third time. Urgency clause adopted. Passed. (Ayes 35. Noes 1. Page 1282.) Ordered to the Assembly.
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2025-05-28
In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk.
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2025-06-05
Referred to Coms. on TRANS. and E.D., G., & H.I.
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2025-07-07
Joint Rule 62(a) suspended.
2025-07-07
Assembly Rule 56 suspended.
2025-07-08
Coauthors revised.
2025-07-08
From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on E.D., G., & H.I. (Ayes 14. Noes 0.) (July 7). Re-referred to Com. on E.D., G., & H.I.
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2025-07-08
From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (July 8). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
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2025-07-08
Coauthors revised.
2025-08-20
August 20 set for first hearing. Placed on APPR. suspense file.
2025-08-29
From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 11. Noes 1.) (August 29).
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2025-09-02
Read second time and amended. Ordered to second reading.
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2025-09-03
Read second time. Ordered to third reading.
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2025-09-04
Read third time and amended.
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2025-09-04
Ordered to third reading.
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2025-09-09
Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 69. Noes 5. Page 3082.) Ordered to the Senate.
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2025-09-09
In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
2025-09-10
Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 40. Noes 0. Page 2820.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling.
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2025-09-17
Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 2 p.m.
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2025-10-11
Vetoed by the Governor.
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2025-10-11
In Senate. Consideration of Governor's veto pending.
2026-03-02
Veto sustained.
2026-03-02
Stricken from file.
Versions
- 02/03/25 - Introduced — 2025-02-03Compare
- 03/13/25 - Amended Senate — 2025-03-13Compare
- 05/23/25 - Amended Senate — 2025-05-23Compare
- 09/02/25 - Amended Assembly — 2025-09-02Compare
- 09/04/25 - Amended Assembly — 2025-09-04Compare
- 09/12/25 - Enrolled — 2025-09-12Compare
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Votes
Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Business, Professions and Economic Development]
2025-03-25 · pass · 14-0
Member-level votes (15)
- Limón: yes
- Seyarto: yes
- Archuleta: yes
- Strickland: yes
- Gonzalez: yes
- Cortese: yes
- Arreguín: yes
- Cervantes: yes
- Blakespear: yes
- Umberg: yes
- Richardson: yes
- Valladares: yes
- Menjivar: yes
- Grayson: yes
- Dahle: other
Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations]
2025-04-28 · pass · 11-0
Member-level votes (11)
- Grayson: yes
- Smallwood-Cuevas: yes
- Umberg: yes
- Arreguín: yes
- Weber Pierson: yes
- Ashby: yes
- Strickland: yes
- Choi: yes
- Archuleta: yes
- Niello: yes
- Menjivar: yes
Placed on suspense file
2025-05-12 · pass · 7-0
Member-level votes (7)
- Wahab: yes
- Seyarto: yes
- Grayson: yes
- Richardson: yes
- Cabaldon: yes
- Dahle: yes
- Caballero: yes
Do pass as amended
2025-05-23 · pass · 6-0
Member-level votes (7)
- Caballero: yes
- Seyarto: yes
- Wahab: yes
- Cabaldon: yes
- Richardson: yes
- Grayson: yes
- Dahle: other
3rd Reading SB263 Gonzalez et al. Urgency Clause
2025-05-28 · pass · 35-1
Member-level votes (40)
- McNerney: yes
- Cabaldon: yes
- Allen: yes
- Padilla: yes
- Gonzalez: yes
- Smallwood-Cuevas: yes
- Laird: yes
- Becker: yes
- Ochoa Bogh: yes
- Rubio: yes
- Strickland: yes
- Umberg: yes
- Caballero: yes
- Arreguín: yes
- Wahab: yes
- Weber Pierson: yes
- Archuleta: yes
- McGuire: yes
- Richardson: yes
- Blakespear: yes
- Choi: yes
- Cortese: yes
- Hurtado: yes
- Valladares: yes
- Jones: yes
- Dahle: yes
- Durazo: yes
- Niello: yes
- Ashby: yes
- Grayson: yes
- Wiener: yes
- Stern: yes
- Pérez: yes
- Seyarto: yes
- Menjivar: yes
- Alvarado-Gil: no
- Limón: other
- Grove: other
- Reyes: other
- Cervantes: other
Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Economic Development, Growth, and Household Impact]
2025-07-07 · pass · 14-0
Member-level votes (16)
- Ward: yes
- Hoover: yes
- Lowenthal: yes
- Ransom: yes
- Ahrens: yes
- Hart: yes
- Jackson: yes
- Wilson: yes
- Davies: yes
- Bennett: yes
- Rogers: yes
- Lackey: yes
- Papan: yes
- Caloza: yes
- Carrillo: other
- Macedo: other
Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations]
2025-07-08 · pass · 7-0
Member-level votes (8)
- Wallis: yes
- Stefani: yes
- Solache: yes
- Castillo: yes
- Petrie-Norris: yes
- Patel: yes
- Soria: yes
- Bonta: other
Do pass as amended.
2025-08-29 · pass · 11-1
Member-level votes (15)
- Elhawary: yes
- Pellerin: yes
- Fong: yes
- Pacheco: yes
- Calderon: yes
- Arambula: yes
- Mark González: yes
- Wicks: yes
- Caloza: yes
- Ahrens: yes
- Solache: yes
- Tangipa: no
- Sanchez: other
- Ta: other
- Dixon: other
SB 263 Gonzalez Senate Third Reading By Lowenthal
2025-09-09 · pass · 69-5
Member-level votes (80)
- Ahrens: yes
- Mark González: yes
- Nguyen: yes
- Ortega: yes
- Solache: yes
- Lowenthal: yes
- Blanca Rubio: yes
- Jackson: yes
- Bryan: yes
- Petrie-Norris: yes
- Harabedian: yes
- Gabriel: yes
- Zbur: yes
- Davies: yes
- McKinnor: yes
- Pellerin: yes
- Muratsuchi: yes
- Krell: yes
- Irwin: yes
- Lackey: yes
- Ramos: yes
- Patel: yes
- Kalra: yes
- Rivas: yes
- Garcia: yes
- Tangipa: no
- Macedo: no
- Ellis: no
- Patterson: no
- DeMaio: no
- Johnson: other
- Hadwick: other
- Gallagher: other
- Sanchez: other
- Chen: other
- Flora: other
- Dixon: yes
- Quirk-Silva: yes
- Gipson: yes
- Rogers: yes
- Addis: yes
- Ward: yes
- Haney: yes
- Hart: yes
- Fong: yes
- Calderon: yes
- Elhawary: yes
- Wilson: yes
- Carrillo: yes
- Bains: yes
- Ransom: yes
- Soria: yes
- Michelle Rodriguez: yes
- Berman: yes
- Valencia: yes
- Wicks: yes
- Celeste Rodriguez: yes
- Arambula: yes
- Connolly: yes
- Schultz: yes
- Bauer-Kahan: yes
- Bennett: yes
- Papan: yes
- Schiavo: yes
- Bonta: yes
- Ávila Farías: yes
- Aguiar-Curry: yes
- Jeff Gonzalez: yes
- Pacheco: yes
- Boerner: yes
- Alvarez: yes
- Castillo: yes
- Lee: yes
- Alanis: yes
- Wallis: yes
- Stefani: yes
- Ta: yes
- Caloza: yes
- Hoover: yes
- Sharp-Collins: yes
Unfinished Business SB263 Gonzalez et al. Concurrence
2025-09-10 · pass · 40-0
Member-level votes (40)
- Umberg: yes
- Grove: yes
- Wiener: yes
- Niello: yes
- Jones: yes
- Wahab: yes
- Cortese: yes
- Dahle: yes
- Alvarado-Gil: yes
- Limón: yes
- Seyarto: yes
- Durazo: yes
- Choi: yes
- Archuleta: yes
- Gonzalez: yes
- Smallwood-Cuevas: yes
- Grayson: yes
- Weber Pierson: yes
- Hurtado: yes
- Arreguín: yes
- Laird: yes
- Cervantes: yes
- Rubio: yes
- McGuire: yes
- Reyes: yes
- Blakespear: yes
- Padilla: yes
- Valladares: yes
- Menjivar: yes
- Pérez: yes
- Strickland: yes
- Stern: yes
- Allen: yes
- Caballero: yes
- McNerney: yes
- Ochoa Bogh: yes
- Ashby: yes
- Richardson: yes
- Becker: yes
- Cabaldon: yes
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