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.
This bill would revise those provisions to instead authorize the district, upon the affirmative vote of at least 23 of the board of directors, to submit to the voters of the district a measure proposing a retail transactions and use tax ordinance in accordance with the Transactions and Use Tax Law. The bill would limit the tax rate under this authority to a rate of 14 of 1% and would prohibit the district from submitting such a tax measure to the voters of the district on or after January 1, 2035. The bill would also specify that the tax rate imposed by the district would not be considered for purposes of the combined rate limit of 2% in each county for all taxes imposed pursuant to the Transactions and Use Tax Law.

Statutes affected:
AB 761: 106060 PUC
02/18/25 - Introduced: 106060 PUC