---
type: "Bill"
title: "Transactions and use taxes: County of Alameda: Santa Cruz Metropolitan Transit District."
description: "(1) Existing law authorizes various specified cities and counties, subject to certain limitations and approval requirements, to levy a transactions and use tax for general or specific purposes, in accordance with the procedures and requirements set forth in the Transactions and Use Tax Law. A provision of the Transactions and Use Tax Law prohibits the combined rate of all taxes that may be imposed in accordance with that law in a county from exceeding 2%."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20192020"
identifier: "AB 723"
citation: "California AB 723 (20192020)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Transactions and use taxes: County of Alameda: Santa Cruz Metropolitan Transit District."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Quirk"]
version_count: 8
action_count: 35
vote_count: 8
first_action: "2019-02-19"
last_action: "2019-10-11"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/cc73387d-2fb6-4166-abc6-07e86a43fb78"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB723"
source_hash: "2fe3b42629e2cfd77e9fed4604745ac2d6c56e70870242053b04ab781b0594e2"
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 723 (20192020) — Transactions and use taxes: County of Alameda: Santa Cruz Metropolitan Transit District.

(1) Existing law authorizes various specified cities and counties, subject to certain limitations and approval requirements, to levy a transactions and use tax for general or specific purposes, in accordance with the procedures and requirements set forth in the Transactions and Use Tax Law. A provision of the Transactions and Use Tax Law prohibits the combined rate of all taxes that may be imposed in accordance with that law in a county from exceeding 2%.

## Version chain

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

1. **02/19/19 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB723&version=20190AB72399INT)
2. **03/25/19 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB723&version=20190AB72398AMD)
3. **04/29/19 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB723&version=20190AB72397AMD)
4. **07/01/19 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB723&version=20190AB72396AMD)
5. **09/06/19 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB723&version=20190AB72395AMD)
6. **10/11/19 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB723&version=20190AB72393CHP)
7. **AB723** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB723)
8. **09/19/19 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB723&version=20190AB72394ENR)

## Votes

- That the measure be returned to Senate Floor for consideration. Ordered to third reading. — **4–2** (pass) · upper
- Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Housing] — **4–0** (pass) · upper
- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Housing and Community Development] — **10–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **8–0** (pass) · lower
- With recommendation: That Senate amendments be concurred in. — **5–2** (pass) · lower
- AB 723 Quirk Concurrence in Senate Amendments — **52–24** (pass) · lower
- AB 723 Wicks Assembly Third Reading — **77–0** (pass) · lower
- 3rd Reading AB723 Quirk By Wieckowski — **27–10** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Quirk — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-02-19** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
- **2019-02-20** From printer. May be heard in committee March 22.
- **2019-02-28** Referred to Coms. on REV. & TAX. and H. & C.D. `referral-committee`
- **2019-03-25** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on REV. & TAX. Read second time and amended. `reading-1, reading-2, amendment-passage, amendment-introduction`
- **2019-03-26** Re-referred to Com. on REV. & TAX. `referral-committee`
- **2019-04-01** In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
- **2019-04-09** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on H. & C.D. (Ayes 10. Noes 0.) (April 8). Re-referred to Com. on H. & C.D. `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2019-04-25** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 8. Noes 0.) (April 24). `amendment-passage, committee-passage, amendment-introduction`
- **2019-04-29** Read second time and amended. `amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2`
- **2019-04-29** Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `referral-committee`
- **2019-04-29** Withdrawn from committee.
- **2019-04-29** Ordered to second reading.
- **2019-04-30** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2019-05-06** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 77. Noes 0. Page 1516.) `passage, reading-3, reading-1`
- **2019-05-06** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2019-05-16** Referred to Coms. on GOV. & F. and HOUSING. `referral-committee`
- **2019-07-01** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on GOV. & F. `reading-1, reading-2, amendment-passage, referral-committee, amendment-introduction`
- **2019-07-10** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on HOUSING. (Ayes 4. Noes 0.) (July 10). Re-referred to Com. on HOUSING. `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2019-07-11** Withdrawn from committee.
- **2019-07-11** Ordered to second reading.
- **2019-08-12** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2019-09-06** Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. `amendment-passage, reading-3, reading-1`
- **2019-09-09** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2019-09-09** Re-referred to Com. on RLS. pursuant to Senate Rule 29.10(b). `referral-committee`
- **2019-09-09** From committee: Be re-referred to Com. on GOV. & F. pursuant to Senate Rule 29.10(b). (Ayes 5. Noes 0.) Re-referred to Com. on GOV. & F. `committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2019-09-10** From committee: That the measure be returned to Senate Floor for consideration. (Ayes 4. Noes 2.) (September 10) `committee-passage`
- **2019-09-11** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 27. Noes 10. Page 2862.). `passage, reading-3, reading-1`
- **2019-09-11** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending.
- **2019-09-12** Re-referred to Com. on L. GOV. pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.2. `referral-committee`
- **2019-09-13** Joint Rule 62(a), file notice suspended. (Page 3542.)
- **2019-09-13** From committee: That the Senate amendments be concurred in. (Ayes 5. Noes 2.) (September 13). `committee-passage`
- **2019-09-13** Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 52. Noes 24. Page 3558.). `amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-09-25** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3:30 p.m.
- **2019-10-11** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2019-10-11** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 747, Statutes of 2019.

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/cc73387d-2fb6-4166-abc6-07e86a43fb78`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).