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type: "Bill"
title: "Local government: organization: disincorporations."
description: "(1) Existing law specifies a procedure for the legislative body of a city, county, or district to propose to the voters an ordinance or resolution to adopt a special tax pursuant to constitutional requirements. Existing law authorizes a local agency which is conducting proceedings for the incorporation of a city, formation of a district, change of organization, a reorganization, a change of organization of a city, or a municipal reorganization to propose the adoption of a special tax on behalf of the affected city or district in accordance with this procedure."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20152016"
identifier: "AB 851"
citation: "California AB 851 (20152016)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Local government: organization: disincorporations."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Mayes"]
version_count: 10
action_count: 29
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2015-02-26"
last_action: "2015-09-21"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/8716289c-6e9b-4df1-b50d-7bceb16dbb47"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB851"
source_hash: "ea5773445704a9b1431babeb623d0bd955e22d46811c456bf78d4886f10e510c"
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 851 (20152016) — Local government: organization: disincorporations.
(1) Existing law specifies a procedure for the legislative body of a city, county, or district to propose to the voters an ordinance or resolution to adopt a special tax pursuant to constitutional requirements. Existing law authorizes a local agency which is conducting proceedings for the incorporation of a city, formation of a district, change of organization, a reorganization, a change of organization of a city, or a municipal reorganization to propose the adoption of a special tax on behalf of the affected city or district in accordance with this procedure.
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **02/26/15 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB851&version=20150AB85199INT)
2. **04/13/15 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB851&version=20150AB85198AMD)
3. **05/07/15 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB851&version=20150AB85197AMD)
4. **06/15/15 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB851&version=20150AB85196AMD)
5. **06/17/15 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB851&version=20150AB85195AMD)
6. **06/30/15 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB851&version=20150AB85194AMD)
7. **08/18/15 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB851&version=20150AB85193AMD)
8. **09/21/15 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB851&version=20150AB85191CHP)
9. **AB851** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB851)
10. **09/02/15 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB851&version=20150AB85192ENR)
## Votes
- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **90** (pass) · lower
- 3rd Reading AB851 Mayes By Beall — **400** (pass) · upper
- Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **70** (pass) · upper
- AB 851 MAYES Concurrence in Senate Amendments — **800** (pass) · lower
- AB 851 MAYES Assembly Third Reading — **750** (pass) · lower
- Do pass. To Consent Calendar. — **170** (pass) · lower
## Sponsors
- Mayes — primary (person)
- Beall — coauthor (person)
- Cooley — coauthor (person)
- Huff — coauthor (person)
- Moorlach — coauthor (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2015-02-26** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
- **2015-02-27** From printer. May be heard in committee March 29.
- **2015-03-16** Referred to Com. on L. GOV. `referral-committee`
- **2015-04-13** 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`
- **2015-04-14** Re-referred to Com. on L. GOV. `referral-committee`
- **2015-04-23** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.) (April 22). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `referral-committee, committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2015-05-07** 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`
- **2015-05-11** Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `referral-committee`
- **2015-05-13** From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 17. Noes 0.) (May 13). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2015-05-14** Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2015-05-18** From Consent Calendar.
- **2015-05-18** Ordered to third reading.
- **2015-05-22** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 75. Noes 0. Page 1550.) `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2015-05-22** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2015-06-04** Referred to Com. on GOV. & F. `referral-committee`
- **2015-06-15** 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`
- **2015-06-17** 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`
- **2015-06-29** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (June 24). `amendment-introduction, committee-passage, amendment-passage`
- **2015-06-30** Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `referral-committee, reading-2, amendment-passage, reading-1`
- **2015-07-13** From committee: Be placed on second reading file pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8. `committee-passage`
- **2015-07-14** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2015-08-18** Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. `reading-3, amendment-passage, reading-1`
- **2015-08-19** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2015-08-27** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 40. Noes 0. Page 2202.). `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2015-08-27** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after August 30 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
- **2015-08-31** Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 80. Noes 0. Page 2676.). `committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage`
- **2015-09-09** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.
- **2015-09-21** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2015-09-21** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 304, Statutes of 2015.
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/8716289c-6e9b-4df1-b50d-7bceb16dbb47`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).