20250SB__075299INT INTRODUCED 2025-02-21 2025 SB INT Introduced by Senator Richardson LEAD_AUTHOR SENATE Richardson

An act to amend

Section of the Revenue and Taxation Code, relating to taxation, to take effect immediately, tax levy. taxation, to take effect immediately, tax levy Sales and use taxes: exemptions: California Hybrid and Zero-Emission Truck and Bus Voucher Incentive Project: transit buses. Existing state sales and use tax laws impose a tax on retailers measured by the gross receipts from the sale of tangible personal property sold at retail in this state or on the storage, use, or other consumption in this state of tangible personal property purchased from a retailer for storage, use, or other consumption in this state.

The Sales and Use Tax Law provides various exemptions from those taxes, including, until January 1, 2026, an exemption from those taxes with respect to the sale in this state of, and the storage, use, or other consumption in this state of, specified zero-emission technology transit buses sold to specified public agencies that are eligible for specified incentives from the State Air Resources Board. This bill would extend the exemption for specified zero-emission technology transit buses until January 1, 2028. This bill would take effect immediately as a tax levy.

MAJORITY NO YES NO YES NO YES NO NO NO NO The people of the State of California do enact as follows:

SECTION 1.

Section of the Revenue and Taxation Code is amended to read: 6377. (

a) There are exempted from the taxes imposed by this part the gross receipts from the sale in this state of, and the storage, use, or other consumption in this state of, any zero-emission technology transit bus sold to a city, county, city and county, transportation or transit district, or other public agency that provides transit services to the public that is eligible for the California Hybrid and Zero-Emission Truck and Bus Voucher Incentive Project funded by the Air Quality Improvement Program, the General Fund, and the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund under the State Air Resources Board. (

b) For purposes of this section: (1) “Articulated bus” means a 54-foot to 60-foot bus with two connected passenger compartments. (2) “Bus” means a rubber-tire vehicle designed to transport passengers by road with a gross vehicle weight rating greater than 14,000 pounds. (3) “Cutaway bus” means a vehicle in which a bus body designed to transport passengers is mounted on the chassis of a van or light- or medium-duty truck chassis, and that has a gross vehicle weight rating greater than 14,000 pounds, but not more than 26,000 pounds.

A cutaway bus includes an original van or light- or medium-duty truck chassis that has been reinforced or extended.

Accommodating some standing passengers does not disqualify a cutaway bus from being considered a transit bus for the purposes of this section. (4) “Double-decker bus” means a high-capacity bus that has two levels of seating, one over the other, connected by one or more stairways, of a height that is at least feet, and carries between to people. (5) “Over-the-road bus” means a bus characterized by an elevated passenger deck located over a baggage compartment used for long-distance bus services or connecting outlying areas with central cities with limited stops. (6) “Shuttle bus” means a commercial vehicle with a gross vehicle weight rating of 8,501 pounds or greater, sized Class 2b through Class 8, that transports passengers in a fixed destination route. (7) “Transit bus” means an articulated bus, bus, cutaway bus, double-decker bus, over-the-road bus, shuttle bus, or trolley bus. (8) “Trolley bus” means a rubber-tired, electrically powered passenger vehicle operated on city streets drawing power from overhead wires using trolley poles. (c)

(1) Notwithstanding any provision of the Bradley-Burns Uniform Local Sales and Use Tax Law (Part 1.5 (commencing with

Section 7200)) or the Transactions and Use Tax Law (Part 1.6 (commencing with

Section 7251)), the exemption established by subdivision (

a) does not apply with respect to any tax levied by a county, city, or district pursuant to, or in accordance with, either of those laws.

(2) Notwithstanding subdivision (a), the exemption established by this

section shall not apply with respect to any tax levied pursuant to

Section 6051.2 or 6201.2, pursuant to

Section of

Article XIII of the California Constitution, or any tax levied pursuant to

Section or that is deposited in the State Treasury to the credit of the Local Revenue Fund pursuant to

Section 6051.15 or 6201.15. (

d) This

section shall become inoperative on January 1, 2028, and as of that date is repealed.

SEC. 2. This act provides for a tax levy within the meaning of

Article IV of the California Constitution and shall go into immediate effect.