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 02/14/25 - Introduced

 AB-699 Elections: local tax measures.(2025-2026)

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 Date Published: 09/16/2025 09:00 PM

AB699:v94#DOCUMENTBill Start

 Enrolled
 September 16, 2025

 Passed
 IN 
 Senate
 September 11, 2025

 Passed
 IN 
 Assembly
 September 13, 2025

 Amended
 IN 
 Senate
 September 05, 2025

 Amended
 IN 
 Senate
 July 03, 2025

 Amended
 IN 
 Assembly
 May 05, 2025

 Amended
 IN 
 Assembly
 April 01, 2025

 CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE—
 2025–2026 REGULAR SESSION

 Assembly Bill

No. 699

Introduced by Assembly Member Stefani

February 14, 2025

An act to amend Sections 9401, 9403, 9405, and 13119 of, to amend the heading of Chapter 5 (commencing with Section 9400) of Division 9 of, to add Section 9406 to, and to repeal and add Section 9400 of, the Elections Code, relating to elections. 

LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST

AB 699, Stefani.
 Elections: local tax measures.

Under existing law, if a proposed local measure imposes a tax or raises the rate of a tax, the ballot must include the amount of money to be raised annually by the tax and the rate and duration of the tax.

If the measure imposes or increases a tax with more than one rate or authorizes the issuance of bonds, this bill would allow the local government submitting the measure to the voters to direct the elections official to include on the ballot a statement directing the voters to the county voter information guide for information about the tax rate
 or about how the bond debt would be repaid, in lieu of providing the information
 on the ballot as described above. If the local government directs voters to the county voter information guide for tax rate information, the bill would require local elections officials to provide a measure information statement with the sample ballot for the election. The bill would require the measure information statement to include, among other things,
 a description of the purpose of the tax and how the revenue will be spent, a list of all tax rates expected to apply, and the duration of the tax. By requiring local elections officials to
 provide additional information to voters, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program.

 Existing law requires local governments, when submitting a measure for voter approval for the issuance of bonds that will be secured by ad valorem property taxes, to mail voters a statement that includes estimates of the tax rates required to fund the bond debt.

Existing law authorizes county and city elections officials to establish procedures to permit a voter to opt out of receiving a county voter information guide, state voter information guide, notice of polling place, and other associated materials by mail, and instead obtain them electronically by email or accessing the county’s or city’s internet website, if certain conditions are met.

This bill would authorize local governments to use those same procedures to electronically transmit the measure information statement and the statement including estimates of the tax rates required to fund bond debt.

The California Constitution requires the state to reimburse local agencies and school districts for certain costs mandated by the state. Statutory provisions establish procedures for making that reimbursement.

This bill would provide that, if the Commission on State Mandates determines that the bill contains costs
 mandated by the state, reimbursement for those costs shall be made pursuant to the statutory provisions noted above.

Digest Key

 Vote:
 MAJORITY 
 Appropriation:
 NO 
 Fiscal Committee:
 YES 
 Local Program:
 YES 

Bill Text

The people of the State of California do enact as follows:

SECTION 1.

 The heading of Chapter 5 (commencing with Section 9400) of Division 9 of the Elections Code is amended to read:

 CHAPTER
 5. Local Tax or Bond Measures

SEC. 2.

 Section 9400 of the Elections Code is repealed.

SEC. 3.

 Section 9400 is added to the Elections Code, to read:

9400.

 (a) For each tax measure for which ballots include one of the phrases described in subparagraph (B) of paragraph (2) of subdivision (b) of Section 13119, a measure information statement shall be mailed to the voters, or electronically submi