(1) Existing law, the San Francisco Bay Restoration Authority Act, until January 1, 2029, establishes the San Francisco Bay Restoration Authority to raise and allocate resources for the restoration, enhancement, protection, and enjoyment of wetlands and wildlife habitat in the San Francisco Bay and along its shoreline. The act establishes a governing board of the authority composed of specified members, including a member who is a resident of the San Francisco Bay area with expertise in the implementation of the San Francisco Bay Conservancy Program, who serves as the chair. The act grants to the board all powers that are necessary to carry out the act, including, among other things, the power to levy specified benefit assessments, special taxes, and property-related fees, and to issue revenue bonds and general obligation bonds. However, the act limits the total amount of outstanding indebtedness incurred pursuant to those provisions authorizing the issuance of general obligation bonds to 10% of the authority's total revenues in the preceding fiscal year. Existing law generally requires a district to reimburse the county elections official for the actual costs incurred in conducting an election for the district. However, the act authorizes, until January 1, 2017, the authority to reimburse only the incremental costs, as defined, that are incurred by the county elections official related to submitting a special tax measure to the voters.
California AB 746 (20152016) — San Francisco Bay Restoration Authority.
(1) Existing law, the San Francisco Bay Restoration Authority Act, until January 1, 2029, establishes the San Francisco Bay Restoration Authority to raise and allocate resources for the restoration, enhancement, protection, and enjoyment of wetlands and wildlife habitat in the San Francisco Bay and along its shoreline. The act establishes a governing board of the authority composed of specified members, including a member who is a resident of the San Francisco Bay area with expertise in the implementation of the San Francisco Bay Conservancy Program, who serves as the chair. The act grants to the board all powers that are necessary to carry out the act, including, among other things, the power to levy specified benefit assessments, special taxes, and property-related fees, and to issue revenue bonds and general obligation bonds. However, the act limits the total amount of outstanding indebtedness incurred pursuant to those provisions authorizing the issuance of general obligation bonds to 10% of the authority's total revenues in the preceding fiscal year. Existing law generally requires a district to reimburse the county elections official for the actual costs incurred in conducting an election for the district. However, the act authorizes, until January 1, 2017, the authority to reimburse only the incremental costs, as defined, that are incurred by the county elections official related to submitting a special tax measure to the voters.
Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
AB 746 TING Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 49–28 (pass) · lower
Do pass. — 12–5 (pass) · lower
Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 5–2 (pass) · upper
Sponsors
Ting — primary (person)
Beall — coauthor (person)
Chiu — coauthor (person)
Hancock — coauthor (person)
Hill — coauthor (person)
Leno — coauthor (person)
Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
2015-02-25 Read first time. To print. reading-1
2015-02-26 From printer. May be heard in committee March 28.
2015-03-26 Referred to Com. on L. GOV. referral-committee
2015-03-26 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on L. GOV. Read second time and amended. reading-2, amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1
2015-04-06 Re-referred to Com. on L. GOV. referral-committee
2015-04-14 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on L. GOV. Read second time and amended. reading-2, amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1
2015-04-15 Re-referred to Com. on L. GOV. referral-committee
2015-04-23 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 6. Noes 3.) (April 22). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee, committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
2015-05-06 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 12. Noes 5.) (May 6). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
2015-05-07 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
2015-05-14 Read third time and amended. Ordered to third reading. (Page 1437.) reading-3, amendment-passage, reading-1
2015-05-18 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 51. Noes 24. Page 1480.) reading-3, passage, reading-1
2015-05-18 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
2015-05-28 Referred to Com. on GOV. & F. referral-committee
2015-06-10 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. referral-committee, reading-2, amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1
2015-06-19 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 5. Noes 2.) (June 17). amendment-introduction, committee-passage, amendment-passage
2015-06-22 Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee, reading-2, amendment-passage, reading-1
2015-07-06 From committee: Be placed on second reading file pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8. committee-passage
2015-07-07 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
2015-08-17 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 26. Noes 11. Page 2052.). reading-3, passage, reading-1
2015-08-18 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after August 20 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
2015-08-20 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 49. Noes 28. Page 2524.). committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage
2015-08-27 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3:30 p.m.
2015-09-01 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
2015-09-01 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 226, Statutes of 2015.
Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/3fbf8708-69c7-47b1-b4b8-290a9e7610e8. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).
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