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Bill	Transactions and use taxes: County of Los Angeles: homelessness.	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%. Existing local transactions and use tax law for the County of Los Angeles, known as Measure H, establishes a local tax at a rate of 0.25%, and the revenue from that tax is dedicated to addressing and preventing homelessness.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20232024	AB 1679	California AB 1679 (20232024)	bill	County of Los Angeles Transactions and use taxes homelessness	enacted	Santiago	6	25	6	2023-02-17	2023-10-10	openstates	ocd-bill/133fa583-9f0a-4b38-b8c9-27c49631bb67	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB1679	7384e11910b1a56993ddf2ca9a1afc3af697068c8564bae3be3e58548828f6f1	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 1679 (20232024) — Transactions and use taxes: County of Los Angeles: homelessness.

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%. Existing local transactions and use tax law for the County of Los Angeles, known as Measure H, establishes a local tax at a rate of 0.25%, and the revenue from that tax is dedicated to addressing and preventing homelessness.

Version chain

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

1. 02/17/23 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 06/19/23 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
3. 08/14/23 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
4. 10/10/23 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
5. AB1679 (committee substitute) — source
6. 09/18/23 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• AB 1679 Santiago Consent Calendar Second Day — 60–0 (pass) · lower
• AB 1679 Santiago Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 53–18 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended — 6–2 (pass) · upper
• With recommendation: That Senate amendments be concurred in. — 5–1 (pass) · lower
• Do pass. To Consent Calendar. — 20–0 (pass) · lower
• 3rd Reading AB1679 Santiago By Smallwood-Cuevas — 30–9 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Santiago — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2023-02-17 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2023-02-18 From printer. May be heard in committee March 20.
• 2023-03-09 Referred to Com. on G.O. referral-committee
• 2023-03-22 From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 20. Noes 0.) (March 22). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2023-03-23 Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. reading-1, reading-2
• 2023-03-30 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 65. Noes 0. Page 1009.) passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2023-03-30 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2023-05-03 Referred to Com. on G.O. referral-committee
• 2023-06-13 In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
• 2023-06-19 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on G.O. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee
• 2023-06-20 Withdrawn from committee.
• 2023-06-20 Re-referred to Com. on RLS. referral-committee
• 2023-06-21 Re-referred to Com. on GOV. & F. referral-committee
• 2023-07-13 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 6. Noes 2.) (July 12). amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage
• 2023-08-14 Read second time and amended. Ordered to third reading. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
• 2023-09-06 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 30. Noes 9. Page 2392.). passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2023-09-06 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after September 8 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
• 2023-09-07 Assembly Rule 77 suspended. (Page 3011.)
• 2023-09-07 Re-referred to Com. on L. GOV. pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.2. referral-committee
• 2023-09-11 Joint Rule 62(a), file notice suspended. (Page 3135.)
• 2023-09-12 From committee: That the Senate amendments be concurred in. (Ayes 5. Noes 1.) (September 12). committee-passage
• 2023-09-13 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 53. Noes 18. Page 3372.). amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2023-09-21 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3:30 p.m.
• 2023-10-10 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2023-10-10 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 731, Statutes of 2023. became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/133fa583-9f0a-4b38-b8c9-27c49631bb67. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).