---
type: "Bill"
title: "Local sales and use taxes: transaction and use taxes."
description: "Existing law authorizes the board of supervisors of a county and the governing body of a city to levy, increase, or extend a transactions and use tax at a rate of 0.25%, or a multiple thereof, if approved by the required vote of the board or governing body and the required vote of qualified voters."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20112012"
identifier: "AB 686"
citation: "California AB 686 (20112012)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Local sales and use taxes: transaction and use taxes."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Huffman"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 19
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2011-02-17"
last_action: "2011-08-04"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/904a122c-499c-44d3-b3a2-0abd3cfabfa1"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB686"
source_hash: "1bbb66895c7982b7c574d48b267eb53cc1a759b13a77086877b58a95b4c08682"
vintage: "2026-07-01"
source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
confidence: "reported"
tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-ca"]
---

# California AB 686 (20112012) — Local sales and use taxes: transaction and use taxes.

Existing law authorizes the board of supervisors of a county and the governing body of a city to levy, increase, or extend a transactions and use tax at a rate of 0.25%, or a multiple thereof, if approved by the required vote of the board or governing body and the required vote of qualified voters.

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **02/17/11 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB686&version=20110AB68699INT)
2. **03/09/11 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB686&version=20110AB68698AMD)
3. **08/04/11 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB686&version=20110AB68696CHP)
4. **AB686** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB686)
5. **07/18/11 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB686&version=20110AB68697ENR)

## Votes

- 3rd Reading AB686 Huffman By Leno — **21–16** (pass) · upper
- Do pass. — **6–3** (pass) · lower
- Do pass. — **6–3** (pass) · upper
- AB 686 HUFFMAN Assembly Third Reading — **47–26** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Huffman — primary (person)

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **2011-02-17** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
- **2011-02-18** From printer. May be heard in committee March 20.
- **2011-03-03** Referred to Com. on REV. & TAX. `referral-committee`
- **2011-03-09** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on REV. & TAX. Read second time and amended. `reading-2, amendment-introduction, reading-1, amendment-passage`
- **2011-03-10** Re-referred to Com. on REV. & TAX. `referral-committee`
- **2011-04-04** In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to REV. & TAX. suspense file. `referral-committee`
- **2011-05-03** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 6. Noes 3.) (May 2). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2011-05-04** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2011-05-12** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 47. Noes 26. Page 1339.) `reading-3, reading-1, passage`
- **2011-05-12** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2011-05-26** Referred to Com. on GOV. & F. `referral-committee`
- **2011-06-15** In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
- **2011-06-29** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 6. Noes 3.) (June 29). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2011-06-30** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2011-07-14** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 21. Noes 16. Page 1854.). `reading-3, reading-1, passage`
- **2011-07-14** In Assembly. Ordered to Engrossing and Enrolling. `committee-passage`
- **2011-07-25** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 1:30 p.m.
- **2011-08-04** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2011-08-04** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 176, Statutes of 2011.

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/904a122c-499c-44d3-b3a2-0abd3cfabfa1`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).