republic-os/legislation/us/states/ca/20152016/sb-508.md

---
type: "Bill"
title: "Transportation funds: transit operators: pedestrian safety."
description: "(1) Existing law provides various sources of funding to public transit operators. Under the Mills-Alquist-Deddeh Act, also known as the Transportation Development Act, revenues from a 14% sales tax in each county are available, among other things, for allocation by the transportation planning agency to transit operators, subject to certain financial requirements for an operator to meet in order to be eligible to receive funds. Existing law sets forth alternative ways an operator may qualify for funding, including a standard under which the allocated funds do not exceed 50% of the operator's total operating costs, as specified, or the maintenance by the operator of a specified farebox ratio of fare revenues to operating costs. Existing law authorizes an operator to satisfy the applicable ratio of fare revenues to operating costs by supplementing its fare revenues with local funds, as defined. Existing law generally establishes the required farebox ratio as 20% in urbanized areas and 10% in nonurbanized areas, except that an operator that exceeded those percentages in the 1978–79 fiscal year is required to maintain the higher farebox ratios in order to remain eligible for funding. Existing law provides various exceptions to the definition of \"operating cost\" for these purposes."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20152016"
identifier: "SB 508"
citation: "California SB 508 (20152016)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Transportation funds: transit operators: pedestrian safety."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Beall"]
version_count: 8
action_count: 21
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2015-02-26"
last_action: "2015-10-09"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/014da329-9431-44b0-a63c-3b397ebcd1c5"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB508"
source_hash: "c722ab9e017a6989135c2f086eeeea4694d762b32a5062a9a7b49fd91a163528"
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 508 (20152016) — Transportation funds: transit operators: pedestrian safety.

(1) Existing law provides various sources of funding to public transit operators. Under the Mills-Alquist-Deddeh Act, also known as the Transportation Development Act, revenues from a 14% sales tax in each county are available, among other things, for allocation by the transportation planning agency to transit operators, subject to certain financial requirements for an operator to meet in order to be eligible to receive funds. Existing law sets forth alternative ways an operator may qualify for funding, including a standard under which the allocated funds do not exceed 50% of the operator's total operating costs, as specified, or the maintenance by the operator of a specified farebox ratio of fare revenues to operating costs. Existing law authorizes an operator to satisfy the applicable ratio of fare revenues to operating costs by supplementing its fare revenues with local funds, as defined. Existing law generally establishes the required farebox ratio as 20% in urbanized areas and 10% in nonurbanized areas, except that an operator that exceeded those percentages in the 1978–79 fiscal year is required to maintain the higher farebox ratios in order to remain eligible for funding. Existing law provides various exceptions to the definition of "operating cost" for these purposes.

## 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=201520160SB508&version=20150SB50899INT)
2. **04/27/15 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB508&version=20150SB50898AMD)
3. **05/12/15 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB508&version=20150SB50897AMD)
4. **07/15/15 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB508&version=20150SB50896AMD)
5. **08/20/15 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB508&version=20150SB50895AMD)
6. **10/09/15 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB508&version=20150SB50893CHP)
7. **SB508** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB508)
8. **09/02/15 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB508&version=20150SB50894ENR)

## Votes

- SB 508 Beall Senate Third Reading By FRAZIER — **66–14** (pass) · lower
- Do pass as amended. — **16–0** (pass) · lower
- Unfinished Business SB508 Beall Concurrence — **31–9** (pass) · upper
- 3rd Reading — **28–8** (pass) · upper
- Do pass as amended — **8–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Beall — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2015-02-26** Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. `introduction, reading-1`
- **2015-02-27** From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 29.
- **2015-03-12** Referred to Com. on T. & H. `referral-committee`
- **2015-04-02** Set for hearing May 5.
- **2015-04-27** From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on T. & H. `referral-committee, reading-2, amendment-passage, committee-passage, reading-1`
- **2015-05-11** From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 8. Noes 0. Page 907.) (May 5). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, amendment-passage`
- **2015-05-12** Read second time and amended. Ordered to third reading. `amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1`
- **2015-05-18** Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 28. Noes 8. Page 1023.) Ordered to the Assembly. `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2015-05-18** In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. `reading-1`
- **2015-05-28** Referred to Com. on TRANS. `referral-committee`
- **2015-07-14** From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 16. Noes 0.) (July 13). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, amendment-passage`
- **2015-07-15** Read second time and amended. Ordered to second reading. `amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1`
- **2015-07-16** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2015-08-20** Read third time and amended. `reading-3, amendment-passage, reading-1`
- **2015-08-20** Ordered to third reading.
- **2015-08-31** Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 66. Noes 14. Page 2682.) Ordered to the Senate. `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2015-08-31** In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
- **2015-09-01** Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 31. Noes 9. Page 2370.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling. `committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage`
- **2015-09-03** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 5:45 p.m.
- **2015-10-09** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2015-10-09** Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 716, Statutes of 2015.

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/014da329-9431-44b0-a63c-3b397ebcd1c5`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).