California legislation · 2025-2026 Regular Session
California SB661: Airports: financial assistance.
Status: Vetoed, September 30, 2026
What the bill says
An act to add Section 21689 to the Public Utilities Code, and to add Section 7102.3 to the Revenue and Taxation Code, relating to airports, and making an appropriation therefor. airports, and making an appropriation therefor Airports: financial assistance. The State Aeronautics Act establishes the Aeronautics Account in the State Transportation Fund, and continuously appropriates the moneys in the account for expenditure for airport purposes by the Division of Aeronautics within the Department of Transportation and the California Transportation Commission…
From the enrolled text, August 31, 2026:
An act to add Section 21689 to the Public Utilities Code, and to add Section 7102.3 to the Revenue and Taxation Code, relating to airports, and making an appropriation therefor. airports, and making an appropriation therefor Airports: financial assistance. The State Aeronautics Act establishes the Aeronautics Account in the State Transportation Fund, and continuously appropriates the moneys in the account for expenditure for airport purposes by the Division of Aeronautics within the Department of Transportation and the California Transportation Commission. Existing sales and use tax laws impose taxes 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, including taxes imposed on the sale, storage, use, or other consumption of jet fuels. Existing law requires revenues from these taxes to be transmitted to the Treasurer and deposited into the Retail Sales Tax Fund. Existing federal law requires that any revenue from sales and use taxes imposed on aviation fuel be used for the operation costs of airports, the local airport system, or other local facilities that are directly and substantially related to the air transportation of passengers or property, except as provided. …