republic-os/legislation/us/states/ca/20252026/ab-761.md

---
type: "Bill"
title: "Monterey-Salinas Transit District: sales and special taxes."
description: "Existing law creates the Monterey-Salinas Transit District to include all of the County of Monterey, with specified powers and duties related to public transit service. Existing law prohibits the district from imposing sales or special taxes, but authorizes the district, with the concurrence of a majority of the member jurisdictions represented on the board of directors, to submit a ballot measure for the imposition of those taxes to voters of the district."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20252026"
identifier: "AB 761"
citation: "California AB 761 (20252026)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Monterey-SalinasTransitDistrict", "salesandspecialtaxes"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Addis"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 21
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2025-02-18"
last_action: "2025-10-13"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/de91773d-2f98-4554-abe6-cd6c1cd94102"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB761"
source_hash: "328ee69459b742ae1286a3d87c33dff4411bff210dfd89445924842f4392f0ad"
vintage: "2026-07-01"
source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
confidence: "reported"
tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-ca"]
---

# California AB 761 (20252026) — Monterey-Salinas Transit District: sales and special taxes.

Existing law creates the Monterey-Salinas Transit District to include all of the County of Monterey, with specified powers and duties related to public transit service. Existing law prohibits the district from imposing sales or special taxes, but authorizes the district, with the concurrence of a majority of the member jurisdictions represented on the board of directors, to submit a ballot measure for the imposition of those taxes to voters of the district.

## Version chain

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

1. **02/18/25 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB761&version=20250AB76199INT)
2. **03/28/25 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB761&version=20250AB76198AMD)
3. **04/30/25 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB761&version=20250AB76197AMD)
4. **10/13/25 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB761&version=20250AB76195CHP)
5. **AB761** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB761)
6. **09/11/25 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB761&version=20250AB76196ENR)

## Votes

- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Revenue and Taxation] — **8–2** (pass) · lower
- 3rd Reading AB761 Addis By Laird — **30–10** (pass) · upper
- Do pass as amended. — **5–2** (pass) · lower
- AB 761 Addis Assembly Third Reading — **56–14** (pass) · lower
- Do pass — **4–1** (pass) · upper
- Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Revenue and Taxation] — **11–3** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Addis — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-02-18** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
- **2025-02-19** From printer. May be heard in committee March 21.
- **2025-03-03** Referred to Coms. on L. GOV. and REV. & TAX. `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-28** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on L. GOV. Read second time and amended. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2`
- **2025-04-01** Re-referred to Com. on L. GOV. `referral-committee`
- **2025-04-10** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on REV. & TAX. (Ayes 8. Noes 2.) (April 9). Re-referred to Com. on REV. & TAX. `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
- **2025-04-21** In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
- **2025-04-29** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 5. Noes 2.) (April 28). `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage`
- **2025-04-30** Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading. `amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2`
- **2025-05-01** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2025-05-19** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 56. Noes 14. Page 1593.) `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2025-05-20** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2025-05-28** Referred to Coms. on TRANS. and REV. & TAX. `referral-committee`
- **2025-06-25** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on REV. & TAX. (Ayes 11. Noes 3.) (June 24). Re-referred to Com. on REV. & TAX. `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
- **2025-07-09** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 4. Noes 1.) (July 9). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-07-10** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2025-09-09** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 30. Noes 10. Page 2698.). `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2025-09-09** In Assembly. Ordered to Engrossing and Enrolling. `committee-passage`
- **2025-09-16** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 2 p.m.
- **2025-10-13** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2025-10-13** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 706, Statutes of 2025. `became-law`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/de91773d-2f98-4554-abe6-cd6c1cd94102`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).