---
type: "Bill"
title: "Transactions and use taxes: County of Humboldt."
description: "Existing law authorizes various local governmental entities, 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: "20232024"
identifier: "AB 1256"
citation: "California AB 1256 (20232024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["County of Humboldt", "Transactions and use taxes"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Wood"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 18
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2023-02-16"
last_action: "2023-10-08"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/7aced118-ee8c-47b8-8ba9-454bbdbe9327"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB1256"
source_hash: "2202a2659c71b1eb013b99ec9aec44513b7bdfaa4cb42e3d26b4668de5beb5a0"
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 1256 (20232024) — Transactions and use taxes: County of Humboldt.

Existing law authorizes various local governmental entities, 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. **02/16/23 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB1256&version=20230AB125699INT)
2. **03/23/23 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB1256&version=20230AB125698AMD)
3. **10/08/23 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB1256&version=20230AB125696CHP)
4. **AB1256** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB1256)
5. **09/18/23 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB1256&version=20230AB125697ENR)

## Votes

- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Revenue and Taxation] — **5–2** (pass) · lower
- 3rd Reading AB1256 Wood By McGuire — **30–9** (pass) · upper
- Do pass — **6–1** (pass) · upper
- AB 1256 Wood Assembly Third Reading — **55–14** (pass) · lower
- Do pass. — **8–2** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Wood — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-02-16** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
- **2023-02-17** From printer. May be heard in committee March 19.
- **2023-03-23** Referred to Coms. on L. GOV. and REV. & TAX. `referral-committee`
- **2023-03-23** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on L. GOV. Read second time and amended. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2`
- **2023-03-27** Re-referred to Com. on L. GOV. `referral-committee`
- **2023-04-20** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on REV. & TAX. (Ayes 5. Noes 2.) (April 19). Re-referred to Com. on REV. & TAX. `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
- **2023-05-02** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 8. Noes 2.) (May 1). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-05-03** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2023-05-15** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 55. Noes 14. Page 1550.) `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2023-05-16** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2023-05-24** Referred to Com. on GOV. & F. `referral-committee`
- **2023-06-07** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 6. Noes 1.) (June 7). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-06-08** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2023-09-13** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 30. Noes 9. Page 2762.). `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2023-09-13** In Assembly. Ordered to Engrossing and Enrolling. `committee-passage`
- **2023-09-21** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3:30 p.m.
- **2023-10-08** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2023-10-08** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 572, Statutes of 2023. `became-law`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/7aced118-ee8c-47b8-8ba9-454bbdbe9327`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).