---
type: "Bill"
title: "Transactions and use taxes: City of Alameda."
description: "Existing law authorizes cities and counties, subject to certain limitations and approval requirements, to levy a transactions and use tax for general purposes, 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%."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20152016"
identifier: "AB 366"
citation: "California AB 366 (20152016)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Transactions and use taxes: City of Alameda."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Bonta"]
version_count: 9
action_count: 34
vote_count: 9
first_action: "2015-02-17"
last_action: "2016-09-23"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/33e7d512-8784-459b-bc01-d5a55212e43a"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB366"
source_hash: "3c649f2b682a57ffa8307aa2be8a046b85ff53d6748d812954e745c4539e7649"
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 366 (20152016) — Transactions and use taxes: City of Alameda.

Existing law authorizes cities and counties, subject to certain limitations and approval requirements, to levy a transactions and use tax for general purposes, 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%.

## Version chain

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

1. **02/17/15 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB366&version=20150AB36699INT)
2. **04/07/15 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB366&version=20150AB36698AMD)
3. **05/14/15 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB366&version=20150AB36697AMD)
4. **05/28/15 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB366&version=20150AB36696AMD)
5. **06/14/16 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB366&version=20150AB36694AMD)
6. **07/07/15 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB366&version=20150AB36695AMD)
7. **09/23/16 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB366&version=20150AB36692CHP)
8. **AB366** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB366)
9. **08/31/16 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB366&version=20150AB36693ENR)

## Votes

- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **16–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass — **5–2** (pass) · upper
- AB 366 BONTA Concurrence in Senate Amendments — **50–30** (pass) · lower
- AB 366 BONTA Assembly Third Reading — **77–0** (pass) · lower
- 3rd Reading AB366 Bonta By Hancock — **25–11** (pass) · upper
- Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with the recommendation: To Consent Calendar — **9–0** (pass) · upper
- Do pass as amended. — **17–0** (pass) · lower
- With recommendation: That Senate amendments be concurred in. — **5–3** (pass) · lower
- Placed on suspense file — **7–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Bonta — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2015-02-17** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
- **2015-02-18** From printer. May be heard in committee March 20.
- **2015-03-02** Referred to Com. on HEALTH. `referral-committee`
- **2015-04-07** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on HEALTH. Read second time and amended. `reading-2, amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1`
- **2015-04-08** Re-referred to Com. on HEALTH. `referral-committee`
- **2015-04-15** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 16. Noes 0.) (April 14). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `referral-committee, committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2015-05-13** In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
- **2015-05-14** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on APPR. Read second time and amended. `reading-2, amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1`
- **2015-05-18** Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `referral-committee`
- **2015-05-20** In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to APPR. suspense file. `referral-committee`
- **2015-05-28** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 17. Noes 0.) (May 28). `amendment-introduction, committee-passage, amendment-passage`
- **2015-05-28** Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading. `amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1`
- **2015-06-01** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2015-06-02** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 77. Noes 0. Page 1801.) `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2015-06-02** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2015-06-11** Referred to Com. on HEALTH. `referral-committee`
- **2015-07-07** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on HEALTH. `referral-committee, reading-2, amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1`
- **2015-07-16** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.) (July 15). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `referral-committee, committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2015-08-17** In committee: Referred to APPR. suspense file. `referral-committee`
- **2015-08-27** In committee: Held under submission.
- **2016-06-14** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on APPR. `referral-committee, reading-2, amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1`
- **2016-06-15** Withdrawn from committee.
- **2016-06-15** Re-referred to Com. on RLS. `referral-committee`
- **2016-06-16** Re-referred to Com. on GOV. & F. `referral-committee`
- **2016-06-29** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 5. Noes 2.) (June 29). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2016-06-30** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2016-08-15** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 25. Noes 11. Page 4958.). `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2016-08-16** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after August 18 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
- **2016-08-18** Re-referred to Com. on L. GOV. pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.2. `referral-committee`
- **2016-08-25** From committee: That the Senate amendments be concurred in. (Ayes 5. Noes 3.) . `committee-passage`
- **2016-08-30** Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 50. Noes 30. Page 6419.). `committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage`
- **2016-09-08** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.
- **2016-09-23** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2016-09-23** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 502, Statutes of 2016.

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/33e7d512-8784-459b-bc01-d5a55212e43a`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).