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Bill	Sales and use taxes: consumer designation: all volunteer fire department.	The Sales and Use Tax Law, among other things, imposes a tax on retailers measured by the gross receipts from their sales of tangible personal property sold at retail in this state, and specifies that certain sellers of tangible personal property are consumers, and not retailers, of the tangible personal property they sell.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20152016	SB 598	California SB 598 (20152016)	bill	Sales and use taxes: consumer designation: all volunteer fire department.	enacted	Hill	6	24	6	2015-02-27	2015-09-02	openstates	ocd-bill/b20950f5-6e99-4f52-b94f-dd1cea528e1c	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB598	dc75f35f2b0617ce03b2a01b503cdfe49d06351baf053c2e70fe28e1e138da0d	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California SB 598 (20152016) — Sales and use taxes: consumer designation: all volunteer fire department.

The Sales and Use Tax Law, among other things, imposes a tax on retailers measured by the gross receipts from their sales of tangible personal property sold at retail in this state, and specifies that certain sellers of tangible personal property are consumers, and not retailers, of the tangible personal property they sell.

Version chain

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

1. 02/27/15 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 04/15/15 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
3. 06/29/15 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
4. 09/02/15 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
5. SB598 (committee substitute) — source
6. 08/24/15 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 9–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass. To Consent Calendar. — 14–0 (pass) · lower
• Special Consent #6 — 38–0 (pass) · upper
• 3rd Reading — 35–0 (pass) · upper
• SB 598 Hill Consent Calendar Second Day — 79–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Hill — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2015-02-27 Introduced. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. introduction
• 2015-03-02 From printer. May be acted upon on or after April 1.
• 2015-03-02 Read first time. reading-1
• 2015-03-12 Referred to Com. on GOV. & F. referral-committee
• 2015-03-24 Set for hearing April 8.
• 2015-04-14 From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 7. Noes 0. Page 524.) (April 8). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, amendment-passage
• 2015-04-15 Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee, reading-2, amendment-passage, reading-1
• 2015-04-17 Set for hearing April 27.
• 2015-04-27 From committee: Be ordered to second reading pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8. committee-passage, reading-2
• 2015-04-28 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2015-04-30 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 35. Noes 0. Page 840.) Ordered to the Assembly. reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2015-04-30 In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. reading-1
• 2015-05-18 Referred to Com. on REV. & TAX. referral-committee
• 2015-06-25 From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.) (June 22). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, amendment-passage
• 2015-06-29 Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee, reading-2, amendment-passage, reading-1
• 2015-07-08 From committee: Do pass. Ordered to consent calendar. (Ayes 14. Noes 0.) (July 8). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2015-07-09 Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar. reading-2, reading-1
• 2015-07-16 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 79. Noes 0. Page 2434.) Ordered to the Senate. reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2015-07-16 In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
• 2015-08-19 Ordered to special consent calendar.
• 2015-08-20 Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 38. Noes 0.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling. committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage
• 2015-08-26 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4:30 p.m.
• 2015-09-02 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2015-09-02 Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 248, Statutes of 2015.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/b20950f5-6e99-4f52-b94f-dd1cea528e1c. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).