---
type: "Bill"
title: "San Bernardino County Transportation Authority."
description: "Existing law authorizes a county board of supervisors to create or otherwise designate local agencies, including a transportation authority, which may impose a transportation sales tax subject to voter approval, a service authority for freeway emergencies, and a transportation congestion management agency, as specified."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20152016"
identifier: "SB 1305"
citation: "California SB 1305 (20152016)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["San Bernardino County Transportation Authority."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Morrell"]
version_count: 7
action_count: 28
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2016-02-19"
last_action: "2016-08-26"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/92154063-bfba-4fda-976d-da40f9cfa252"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB1305"
source_hash: "547479aef59a914649589e28f10bcbae7eebc964ff2dfeb9284a6af0537eb6ab"
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 SB 1305 (20152016) — San Bernardino County Transportation Authority.

Existing law authorizes a county board of supervisors to create or otherwise designate local agencies, including a transportation authority, which may impose a transportation sales tax subject to voter approval, a service authority for freeway emergencies, and a transportation congestion management agency, as specified.

## Version chain

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

1. **02/19/16 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB1305&version=20150SB130599INT)
2. **03/30/16 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB1305&version=20150SB130598AMD)
3. **05/10/16 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB1305&version=20150SB130597AMD)
4. **05/16/16 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB1305&version=20150SB130596AMD)
5. **08/26/16 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB1305&version=20150SB130594CHP)
6. **SB1305** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB1305)
7. **08/12/16 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB1305&version=20150SB130595ENR)

## Votes

- Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **11–0** (pass) · upper
- 3rd Reading — **39–0** (pass) · upper
- Do pass. To Consent Calendar. — **20–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with recommendation: To Consent Calendar — **15–0** (pass) · lower
- SB 1305 Morrell Consent Calendar Second Day — **78–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Morrell — primary (person)
- Fuller — coauthor (person)
- Huff — coauthor (person)
- Lackey — coauthor (person)
- Mayes — coauthor (person)
- Obernolte — coauthor (person)
- Roth — coauthor (person)
- Steinorth — coauthor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2016-02-19** Introduced. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. `introduction`
- **2016-02-22** From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 23.
- **2016-02-22** Read first time. `reading-1`
- **2016-03-03** Referred to Com. on E., U., & C. `referral-committee`
- **2016-03-30** From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on E., U., & C. `referral-committee, reading-2, amendment-passage, committee-passage, reading-1`
- **2016-04-04** Withdrawn from committee.
- **2016-04-04** Re-referred to Com. on RLS. `referral-committee`
- **2016-04-07** Re-referred to Com. on T. & H. `referral-committee`
- **2016-04-12** Set for hearing April 19.
- **2016-04-20** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 11. Noes 0. Page 3617.) (April 19). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `referral-committee, committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2016-04-29** Set for hearing May 9.
- **2016-05-09** From committee: Be ordered to second reading pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8 and be amended. `committee-passage, reading-2, amendment-passage`
- **2016-05-10** Read second time and amended. Ordered to third reading. `amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1`
- **2016-05-16** Read third time and amended. `reading-3, amendment-passage, reading-1`
- **2016-05-16** Ordered to second reading.
- **2016-05-17** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2016-05-23** Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 39. Noes 0. Page 3929.) Ordered to the Assembly. `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2016-05-23** In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. `reading-1`
- **2016-06-01** Referred to Com. on TRANS. `referral-committee`
- **2016-06-15** June 20 hearing postponed by committee.
- **2016-06-28** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To consent calendar. (Ayes 15. Noes 0.) (June 27). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `referral-committee, committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2016-08-03** From committee: Do pass. Ordered to consent calendar. (Ayes 20. Noes 0.) (August 3). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2016-08-04** Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2016-08-11** Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 78. Noes 0. Page 5779.) Ordered to the Senate. `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2016-08-11** In Senate. Ordered to engrossing and enrolling.
- **2016-08-16** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 11:30 a.m.
- **2016-08-26** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2016-08-26** Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 216, Statutes of 2016.

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/92154063-bfba-4fda-976d-da40f9cfa252`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).