Bill Text: CA SB721 | 2023-2024 | Regular Session | Introduced
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Bill Title: General plan: annual report: suite-style student housing quarters.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Engrossed) 2024-08-15 - August 15 hearing: Held in committee and under submission. [SB721 Detail]
Download: California-2023-SB721-Introduced.html
Bill Title: General plan: annual report: suite-style student housing quarters.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Engrossed) 2024-08-15 - August 15 hearing: Held in committee and under submission. [SB721 Detail]
Download: California-2023-SB721-Introduced.html
CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE—
2023–2024 REGULAR SESSION
Senate Bill
No. 721
Introduced by Senator Becker |
February 16, 2023 |
An act to add Section 50076.1 to the Government Code, relating to local government.
LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
SB 721, as introduced, Becker.
Special taxes: vacant land.
The California Constitution generally conditions the imposition of a special tax by a city, county, or special district upon the approval of 2/3 of the voters of the city, county, or special district voting on that tax. Under existing law, a charter city, pursuant to its constitutional authority over municipal affairs, may levy local taxes to raise revenues for local purposes, subject to restrictions imposed by that city’s charter or preemption in matters of statewide concern. Existing law also authorizes the legislative body of any city to levy any tax which may be levied by any charter city, subject to the voters’ approval pursuant to the California Constitution.
Existing law specifies procedural requirements for the
legislative body of a city, county, or district to propose to the voters an ordinance or resolution to adopt a special tax.
This bill would specify that, as used in those procedural requirements, a special tax includes a tax, levied by any city, including a charter city, county, or district on vacant sites included in the inventory on land suitable and available for residential development pursuant to the housing element of a county’s or a city’s long-term general plan, that meets the constitutional requirements.