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SB-661 • 2026

Airports: financial assistance.

Airports: financial assistance.

Budget Taxes
Passed Legislature

This bill passed both chambers and reached final enrollment, even if later executive action is not shown here.

Sponsor
Hurtado
Last action
2025-07-15
Official status
July 14 set for first hearing canceled at the request of author.
Effective date
Not listed

Plain English Breakdown

The official source does not provide details about how much money will be available for each type of airport or the exact allocation percentages.

Financial Help for Airports

This law requires half of the tax money collected from selling jet fuel to be put into a special fund that helps airports, while the other half stays with each airport.

What This Bill Does

  • Creates an Aeronautics Account in the State Transportation Fund where money for airport projects is kept and used.
  • Requires 50% of taxes on jet fuel sales to be transferred to the Aeronautics Account.
  • Specifies that the other 50% of jet fuel tax revenue must stay with each airport and can only be spent on airport operations, improvements, maintenance, or infrastructure needs.

Who It Names or Affects

  • Airports in California
  • People who buy jet fuel for aviation purposes

Terms To Know

Aeronautics Account
A special fund within the State Transportation Fund that holds money to support airport projects.
Jet Fuel
The type of fuel used in airplanes and helicopters.

Limits and Unknowns

  • Does not specify how much money will be available for each type of airport.
  • It is unclear what happens if the airports do not use their share of funds as intended.
  • The exact percentages for allocating funds to different types of airports are not detailed.

Bill History

  1. 2025-07-15 California Legislative Information

    July 14 set for first hearing canceled at the request of author.

  2. 2025-07-08 California Legislative Information

    From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on REV. & TAX. (Ayes 15. Noes 0.) (July 7). Re-referred to Com. on REV. & TAX.

  3. 2025-06-16 California Legislative Information

    Referred to Coms. on TRANS. and REV. & TAX.

  4. 2025-06-05 California Legislative Information

    In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk.

  5. 2025-06-04 California Legislative Information

    Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 39. Noes 0. Page 1521.) Ordered to the Assembly.

  6. 2025-06-02 California Legislative Information

    Read second time. Ordered to third reading.

  7. 2025-05-29 California Legislative Information

    Ordered to second reading.

  8. 2025-05-29 California Legislative Information

    Read third time and amended.

  9. 2025-05-23 California Legislative Information

    Read second time. Ordered to third reading.

  10. 2025-05-23 California Legislative Information

    From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 5. Noes 0. Page 1208.) (May 23).

  11. 2025-05-16 California Legislative Information

    Set for hearing May 23.

  12. 2025-05-05 California Legislative Information

    May 5 hearing: Placed on APPR. suspense file.

  13. 2025-04-25 California Legislative Information

    Set for hearing May 5.

  14. 2025-04-23 California Legislative Information

    From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 5. Noes 0. Page 872.) (April 23). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.

  15. 2025-04-23 California Legislative Information

    From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on REV. & TAX. (Ayes 14. Noes 0. Page 843.) (April 22). Re-referred to Com. on REV. & TAX.

  16. 2025-04-11 California Legislative Information

    Set for hearing April 23 in REV. & TAX. pending receipt.

  17. 2025-04-10 California Legislative Information

    Set for hearing April 22.

  18. 2025-04-09 California Legislative Information

    Re-referred to Coms. on TRANS. and REV. & TAX.

  19. 2025-04-08 California Legislative Information

    Re-referred to Com. on RLS.

  20. 2025-04-08 California Legislative Information

    Withdrawn from committee.

  21. 2025-04-07 California Legislative Information

    From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on TRANS.

  22. 2025-03-05 California Legislative Information

    Referred to Com. on TRANS.

  23. 2025-02-21 California Legislative Information

    From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 23.

  24. 2025-02-20 California Legislative Information

    Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print.

Official Summary Text

SB 661, as amended, Hurtado.
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.
This bill would require
50% of
the revenues from the imposition of state sales and use taxes, at the rate of
4.1875%,
3.9375%,
on the sale, storage, use, or other consumption of
aviation fuel, as defined,
jet fuel to
be transferred to the Aeronautics Account for allocation in specified percentages to qualifying general aviation airports, to commercial airports, and for other aviation-related purposes, as
specified.
specified. The bill would require the remaining 50% of those revenues to be retained by the airport at which the jet fuel is sold and used only for purposes related to airport operations, capital improvements, maintenance, and other aviation-related infrastructure needs, as specified.
By increasing the sources of funding for and expanding the purposes for which money may be used from a continuously appropriated fund, the Aeronautics Account, the bill would make an appropriation.

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