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Bill	Transactions and use taxes: Counties of Alameda and Santa Clara and City of Santa Fe Springs.	Existing law authorizes cities and counties, subject to certain limitations and approval requirements, to levy a transactions and use tax for general or specific 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%.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20172018	SB 703	California SB 703 (20172018)	bill	Transactions and use taxes: Counties of Alameda and Santa Clara and City of Santa Fe Springs.	enacted	Skinner	8	28	7	2017-02-17	2017-10-10	openstates	ocd-bill/139fcf02-5206-4b93-81d2-4e8b72f9a80a	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB703	2f6042334d2d65a64e69f5bb8acf84e0b7bc1fbd9c16cf51f2270e7506085bfa	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California SB 703 (20172018) — Transactions and use taxes: Counties of Alameda and Santa Clara and City of Santa Fe Springs.

Existing law authorizes cities and counties, subject to certain limitations and approval requirements, to levy a transactions and use tax for general or specific 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. 02/17/17 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 05/03/17 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
3. 06/20/17 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
4. 07/18/17 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
5. 09/07/17 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
6. 10/10/17 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
7. SB703 (committee substitute) — source
8. 09/14/17 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• SB 703 Skinner Senate Third Reading By CALDERON Amendment Set #1 — 51–26 (pass) · lower
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Revenue and Taxation] — 6–3 (pass) · lower
• Do pass — 4–2 (pass) · upper
• 3rd Reading — 24–13 (pass) · upper
• Unfinished Business SB703 Skinner et al. Concurrence — 26–13 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended. — 7–3 (pass) · lower
• SB 703 Skinner Senate Third Reading By CALDERON — 49–28 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Skinner — primary (person)
• Berman — coauthor (person)
• Calderon — coauthor (person)
• Chu — coauthor (person)
• Low — coauthor (person)
• Wieckowski — coauthor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2017-02-17 Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. introduction, reading-1
• 2017-02-21 From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 23.
• 2017-03-09 Referred to Com. on GOV. & F. referral-committee
• 2017-03-21 Set for hearing April 19.
• 2017-04-13 April 19 set for first hearing canceled at the request of author.
• 2017-04-19 Set for hearing May 3.
• 2017-04-24 May 3 set for second hearing canceled at the request of author.
• 2017-04-25 Set for hearing May 10.
• 2017-05-03 From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on GOV. & F. reading-2, referral-committee, amendment-passage, committee-passage, reading-1
• 2017-05-10 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 4. Noes 2. Page 1020.) (May 10). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2017-05-11 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2017-05-18 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 23. Noes 13. Page 1108.) Ordered to the Assembly. reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2017-05-18 In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. reading-1
• 2017-06-01 Referred to Coms. on L. GOV. and REV. & TAX. referral-committee
• 2017-06-13 June 14 set for first hearing canceled at the request of author.
• 2017-06-20 From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on L. GOV. reading-2, referral-committee, amendment-passage, committee-passage, reading-1
• 2017-06-29 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on REV. & TAX. (Ayes 6. Noes 3.) (June 28). Re-referred to Com. on REV. & TAX. committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2017-07-17 From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 7. Noes 3.) (July 10). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, amendment-passage
• 2017-07-18 Read second time and amended. Ordered to second reading. reading-1, amendment-passage, reading-2
• 2017-07-19 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2017-09-07 Read third time and amended. (Ayes 51. Noes 26. Page 3001.) amendment-passage, reading-3, reading-1
• 2017-09-07 Ordered to third reading.
• 2017-09-11 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 49. Noes 28. Page 3153.) Ordered to the Senate. reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2017-09-11 In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
• 2017-09-12 Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 26. Noes 13. Page 2791.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling. committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage
• 2017-09-18 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m.
• 2017-10-10 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2017-10-10 Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 651, Statutes of 2017.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/139fcf02-5206-4b93-81d2-4e8b72f9a80a. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).