BILL NUMBER: AB 210	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Wieckowski
   (Coauthors: Assembly Members Bonta, Buchanan, and Skinner)

                        JANUARY 30, 2013

   An act to amend Sections 7291 and 7292 of the Revenue and Taxation
Code, relating to taxation.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 210, as introduced, Wieckowski. Transactions and use taxes:
County of Alameda.
   Existing law authorizes the County of Alameda to impose a
transactions and use tax for the support of countywide transportation
programs at a rate of no more than 0.5% that, in combination with
other specified taxes, exceeds the combined rate of all these taxes
that may be imposed, if certain requirements are met, including a
requirement that the ordinance proposing the transactions and use tax
be submitted to, and approved by, the voters on a certain date.
Existing law repeals this authority on January 1, 2014, if the
ordinance is not approved by the voters on that date.
   This bill would extend the authority of the County of Alameda to
impose the transactions and use tax for countywide transportation
programs until January 1, 2017 conditioned, upon prior voter
approval.
   Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: no.
State-mandated local program: no.


THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  SECTION 1.  Section 7291 of the Revenue and Taxation Code is
amended to read:
   7291.  Notwithstanding any other law, the County of Alameda may
impose a transactions and use tax for the support of countywide
transportation programs at a rate of no more than 0.5 percent that
would, in combination with all taxes imposed in accordance with Part
1.6 (commencing with Section 7251), exceed the limit established in
Section 7251.1, if all of the following requirements are met:
   (a) The County of Alameda adopts an ordinance proposing the
transactions and use tax by any applicable voting approval
requirement.
   (b) The ordinance proposing the transactions and use tax is
submitted to the electorate on  the   a 
November  6, 2012,  general election ballot and is
approved by the voters voting on the ordinance in accordance with
Article XIII C of the California Constitution.
   (c) The transactions and use tax conforms to the Transactions and
Use Tax Law, Part 1.6 (commencing with Section 7251), other than
Section 7251.1.
  SEC. 2.  Section 7292 of the Revenue and Taxation Code is amended
to read:
   7292.  If  , as of January 1, 2017,  the ordinance
proposing the transactions and use tax  is not  
has not been  approved as required by subdivision (b) of
Section 7291, this chapter shall be repealed as of  January
1, 2014  that same date  .