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type: "Bill"
title: "Enhanced infrastructure financing districts: California Capital City Downtown Revitalization Act."
description: "Existing law authorizes the legislative body of a city or a county, defined to include a city and county, to establish an enhanced infrastructure financing district to finance public capital facilities or other specified projects of communitywide significance, as provided. Existing law provides for the preparation of a proposed infrastructure financing plan, as provided, which takes effect upon adoption by the public financing authority of the district following a specified public hearing and protest procedure. Existing law authorizes the infrastructure financing plan to provide for the division of taxes levied on taxable property in the area included within the district, as specified, and authorizes the public financing authority to issue bonds by adopting a resolution containing specified provisions, including a determination of the amount of tax revenue available or estimated to be available for the payment of the principal of, and interest on, the bonds."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20252026"
identifier: "SB 516"
citation: "California SB 516 (20252026)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["CaliforniaCapitalCityDowntownRevitalizationAct", "Enhancedinfrastructurefinancingdistricts"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Ashby"]
version_count: 7
action_count: 24
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2025-02-19"
last_action: "2025-10-13"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/6e4ea8e0-810f-4dee-8827-083ddf58268e"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260SB516"
source_hash: "56f2fc4437dfb37c443e059d96d2ad583d7e4219e3ddd66a9a6165bcd16d2664"
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 SB 516 (20252026) — Enhanced infrastructure financing districts: California Capital City Downtown Revitalization Act.
Existing law authorizes the legislative body of a city or a county, defined to include a city and county, to establish an enhanced infrastructure financing district to finance public capital facilities or other specified projects of communitywide significance, as provided. Existing law provides for the preparation of a proposed infrastructure financing plan, as provided, which takes effect upon adoption by the public financing authority of the district following a specified public hearing and protest procedure. Existing law authorizes the infrastructure financing plan to provide for the division of taxes levied on taxable property in the area included within the district, as specified, and authorizes the public financing authority to issue bonds by adopting a resolution containing specified provisions, including a determination of the amount of tax revenue available or estimated to be available for the payment of the principal of, and interest on, the bonds.
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **02/19/25 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260SB516&version=20250SB51699INT)
2. **04/30/25 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260SB516&version=20250SB51698AMD)
3. **07/17/25 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260SB516&version=20250SB51697AMD)
4. **09/04/25 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260SB516&version=20250SB51696AMD)
5. **10/13/25 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260SB516&version=20250SB51694CHP)
6. **SB516** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260SB516)
7. **09/13/25 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260SB516&version=20250SB51695ENR)
## Votes
- Unfinished Business SB516 Ashby Concurrence — **400** (pass) · upper
- SB 516 Ashby Senate Third Reading By Haney — **790** (pass) · lower
- Do pass — **60** (pass) · upper
- Do pass as amended. — **100** (pass) · lower
- 3rd Reading — **380** (pass) · upper
## Sponsors
- Ashby — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2025-02-19** Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. `introduction, reading-1`
- **2025-02-20** From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 22.
- **2025-02-26** Referred to Com. on L. GOV. `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-24** Set for hearing April 23.
- **2025-04-07** April 23 hearing postponed by committee.
- **2025-04-07** Set for hearing May 7.
- **2025-04-30** From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on L. GOV. `amendment-passage, committee-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2025-05-07** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 6. Noes 0. Page 1038.) (May 7). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-05-08** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2025-06-03** Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 38. Noes 0. Page 1470.) Ordered to the Assembly. `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2025-06-04** In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. `reading-1`
- **2025-06-09** Referred to Com. on L. GOV. `referral-committee`
- **2025-07-17** Assembly Rule 63 suspended. (Ayes 49. Noes 15. Page 2578.)
- **2025-07-17** From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 10. Noes 0.) (July 16). `amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-07-17** Read second time and amended. Ordered to second reading. `amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2`
- **2025-08-18** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2025-09-04** Read third time and amended. `amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2025-09-04** Ordered to third reading.
- **2025-09-08** Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 79. Noes 0. Page 2979.) Ordered to the Senate. `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2025-09-08** In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
- **2025-09-10** Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 40. Noes 0. Page 2826.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling. `amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-09-22** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 11 a.m.
- **2025-10-13** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2025-10-13** Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 769, 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/6e4ea8e0-810f-4dee-8827-083ddf58268e`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).