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Bill	State taxes and charges.	(1) Existing state sales and use tax laws impose a tax on retailers measured by the gross receipts from the sale of tangible personal property sold at retail in this state or on the storage, use, or other consumption in this state of tangible personal property purchased from a retailer for storage, use, or other consumption in this state. The Sales and Use Tax Law generally provides that the taxes are due and payable to the California Department of Tax and Fee Administration quarterly on or before the last day of the month next succeeding each quarterly period and requires, for purposes of sales tax, a return to be filed by a seller that contains, among other information, the gross receipts of the seller during the preceding reporting period.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20192020	AB 85	California AB 85 (20192020)	bill appropriation	State taxes and charges.	enacted	Committee on Budget	6	26	5	2018-12-03	2020-06-29	openstates	ocd-bill/20eb18f9-6f0a-411a-94da-aab047e7d5f3	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB85	8672c2836c88a4f9b85543a859ee3ed21f0d973a2c91e2927bb24d2961366491	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 85 (20192020) — State taxes and charges.

(1) Existing state sales and use tax laws impose a tax on retailers measured by the gross receipts from the sale of tangible personal property sold at retail in this state or on the storage, use, or other consumption in this state of tangible personal property purchased from a retailer for storage, use, or other consumption in this state. The Sales and Use Tax Law generally provides that the taxes are due and payable to the California Department of Tax and Fee Administration quarterly on or before the last day of the month next succeeding each quarterly period and requires, for purposes of sales tax, a return to be filed by a seller that contains, among other information, the gross receipts of the seller during the preceding reporting period.

Version chain

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

1. 12/03/18 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 06/10/19 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
3. 06/10/20 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
4. 06/29/20 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
5. AB85 (committee substitute) — source
6. 06/16/20 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• WORF AB85 BUDGET (Ting) By Mitchell — 27–11 (pass) · upper
• Do pass — 12–5 (pass) · upper
• AB 85 BUDGET Concurrence in Senate Amendments By TING — 56–20 (pass) · lower
• Do pass — 12–5 (pass) · upper
• AB 85 Ting Assembly Third Reading — 54–13 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Committee on Budget — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2018-12-03 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2018-12-04 From printer. May be heard in committee January 3.
• 2019-01-24 Referred to Com. on BUDGET. referral-committee
• 2019-04-04 Assembly Rule 96 suspended. (Ayes 53. Noes 15. Page 1032.)
• 2019-04-04 Withdrawn from committee.
• 2019-04-04 Ordered to second reading.
• 2019-04-08 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2019-04-11 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 54. Noes 13. Page 1170.) passage, reading-3, reading-1
• 2019-04-11 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2019-04-24 Referred to Com. on B. & F.R. referral-committee
• 2019-06-10 In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
• 2019-06-10 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on B. & F.R. reading-1, reading-2, amendment-passage, referral-committee, amendment-introduction
• 2019-06-12 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 12. Noes 5.) (June 12). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2019-06-13 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2019-06-26 Re-referred to Com. on B. & F.R. referral-committee
• 2020-06-10 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on B. & F.R. reading-1, reading-2, amendment-passage, referral-committee, amendment-introduction
• 2020-06-12 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 12. Noes 5.) (June 12). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2020-06-15 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2020-06-15 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 27. Noes 11. Page 3712.). passage, reading-3, reading-1
• 2020-06-15 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after June 17 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
• 2020-06-15 Assembly Rule 63 suspended.
• 2020-06-15 Assembly Rule 77 suspended. (Ayes 61. Noes 16. Page 4858.)
• 2020-06-15 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 56. Noes 20. Page 4860.). amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2020-06-15 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 5 p.m.
• 2020-06-29 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2020-06-29 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 8, Statutes of 2020.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/20eb18f9-6f0a-411a-94da-aab047e7d5f3. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).