republic-os/legislation/us/states/ca/20232024/sb-797.md

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Bill	Lithium Extraction Tax Citizens Oversight Committee.	Existing law, the Lithium Extraction Tax Law, imposes a lithium extraction excise tax upon each metric ton of lithium carbonate equivalent extracted from geothermal fluid, spodumene ore, rock, minerals, clay, or any other naturally occurring substance in this state, as specified. Existing law requires the California Department of Tax and Fee Administration to administer and collect the tax and requires all collected revenues, less refunds and reimbursement to the department for administrative expenses, to be deposited into the Lithium Extraction Excise Tax Fund and disbursed in the manner prescribed.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20232024	SB 797	California SB 797 (20232024)	bill	Lithium Extraction Tax Citizens Oversight Committee	enacted	Padilla	7	26	8	2023-02-17	2023-10-08	openstates	ocd-bill/30e8af02-e098-47ac-aac4-539891103ae2	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB797	d8a8cf829c05f9c795734c41fea58e73f70244a03148b2904e770bbc350ef163	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California SB 797 (20232024) — Lithium Extraction Tax Citizens Oversight Committee.

Existing law, the Lithium Extraction Tax Law, imposes a lithium extraction excise tax upon each metric ton of lithium carbonate equivalent extracted from geothermal fluid, spodumene ore, rock, minerals, clay, or any other naturally occurring substance in this state, as specified. Existing law requires the California Department of Tax and Fee Administration to administer and collect the tax and requires all collected revenues, less refunds and reimbursement to the department for administrative expenses, to be deposited into the Lithium Extraction Excise Tax Fund and disbursed in the manner prescribed.

Version chain

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

1. 02/17/23 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 04/10/23 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
3. 06/15/23 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
4. 09/01/23 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
5. 10/08/23 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
6. SB797 (committee substitute) — source
7. 09/15/23 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• SB 797 Padilla Senate Third Reading By Garcia — 74–0 (pass) · lower
• 3rd Reading SB797 Padilla et al. — 35–0 (pass) · upper
• Unfinished Business SB797 Padilla et al. Concurrence — 33–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 6–1 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended. — 12–1 (pass) · lower
• Do pass — 5–1 (pass) · upper
• Placed on suspense file — 6–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 8–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Padilla — primary (person)
• Garcia — coauthor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2023-02-17 Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. introduction, reading-1
• 2023-02-21 From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 20.
• 2023-03-01 Referred to Com. on GOV. & F. referral-committee
• 2023-03-14 Set for hearing March 29.
• 2023-03-30 From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 6. Noes 1. Page 574.) (March 29). amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2023-04-10 Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee
• 2023-04-11 Set for hearing April 17.
• 2023-04-17 April 17 hearing: Placed on APPR suspense file.
• 2023-05-12 Set for hearing May 18.
• 2023-05-18 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 5. Noes 1. Page 1184.) (May 18). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2023-05-18 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2023-05-30 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 35. Noes 0. Page 1354.) Ordered to the Assembly. passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2023-05-31 In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. reading-1
• 2023-06-08 Referred to Com. on REV. & TAX. referral-committee
• 2023-06-15 From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on REV. & TAX. amendment-passage, committee-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee
• 2023-06-27 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 8. Noes 0.) (June 26). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2023-08-23 August 23 set for first hearing. Placed on suspense file.
• 2023-09-01 From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 12. Noes 1.) (September 1). amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2023-09-01 Read second time and amended. Ordered to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
• 2023-09-05 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2023-09-12 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 74. Noes 0. Page 3318.) Ordered to the Senate. passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2023-09-12 In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
• 2023-09-13 Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 33. Noes 0. Page 2748.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling. amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2023-09-20 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4:30 p.m.
• 2023-10-08 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2023-10-08 Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 506, Statutes of 2023. became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/30e8af02-e098-47ac-aac4-539891103ae2. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).