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AB 761

Authors

Addis

Subject

Monterey-Salinas Transit District: sales and special taxes.

Relating To

relating to transportation.

Title

An act to amend Section 106060 of the Public Utilities Code, and to add and repeal Chapter 3.95 (commencing with Section 7300.5) of Part 1.7 of Division 2 of the Revenue and Taxation Code, relating to transportation.

Last Action Dt

2025-10-13

State

Chaptered

Status

Chaptered

Active?

Vote Required

Majority

Appropriation

Fiscal Committee

Local Program

Substantive Changes

None

Urgency

Tax Levy

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2025-10-13		Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 706, Statutes of 2025.
2025-10-13		Approved by the Governor.
2025-09-16		Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 2 p.m.
2025-09-09		Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 30. Noes 10. Page 2698.).
2025-09-09		In Assembly. Ordered to Engrossing and Enrolling.
2025-07-10		Read second time. Ordered to third reading.
2025-07-09		From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 4. Noes 1.) (July 9).
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.
2025-05-28		Referred to Coms. on TRANS. and REV. & TAX.
2025-05-20		In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment.
2025-05-19		Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 56. Noes 14. Page 1593.)
2025-05-01		Read second time. Ordered to third reading.
2025-04-30		Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading.
2025-04-29		From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 5. Noes 2.) (April 28).
2025-04-21		In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
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.
2025-04-01		Re-referred to Com. on L. GOV.
2025-03-28		From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on L. GOV. Read second time and amended.
2025-03-03		Referred to Coms. on L. GOV. and REV. & TAX.
2025-02-19		From printer. May be heard in committee March 21.
2025-02-18		Read first time. To print.

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Chaptered		2025-10-13
Enrolled		2025-09-11
Amended Assembly		2025-04-30
Amended Assembly		2025-03-28
Introduced		2025-02-18

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Last Version Text Digest

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 2 3 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.