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TO: BOARD OF SUPERVISORS
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FROM: .
Phil Batchelor, County Administrator %-= Costa
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DATE: April 5
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SUBJECT: LEGISLATION - AB 1246 (Murray)
SPECIFIC REQUEST(S)OR RECOMMENDATION(S)&BACKGROUND AND JUSTIFICATION
RECOMMENDATION•
Adopt a position in SUPPORT of AB 1246 by Assemblyman
Murray, which would impose an excise tax on alcoholic
beverages in the same amount which had been proposed by
Proposition 134.
BACKGROUND:
In advocating a program for .balancing the State's Budget
deficit, the Board of Supervisors recently supported passage
of an increase in the alcoholic beverage excise tax in an
amount equal to that which was proposed by Proposition 134,
the initiative effort which was on the ballot in November,
1990 and failed passage. The Governor has proposed
increasing alcoholic beverage taxes in an amount generally
equal to the excise tax contained in Proposition 126, the
Constitutional Amendment placed on the ballot in November,
1990 by the Legislature,
Assemblyman Murray has introduced two bills, each of which
would increase , alcoholic beverage taxes by different
amounts. Below . is a comparison of the increases which were
proposed by Proposition 126, the increases proposed by
Proposition 134 and the increases proposed by AB 1246 and by
AB 1290 . Since ` AB 1246 increases the excise tax by -the same
amount as Proposition 134, although the money is all
transferred into the State General Fund, as was the case
CONTINUED ON ATTACHM9?s YES SIGNATURE:
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RECOMMENDATION OF COUNTY ADMINISTRATOR RECOMMENDATION OF BOARD COMMITTEE
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VOTE OF SUPERVISORS
1 HEREBY CERTIFY THAT THIS IS A TRUE
UNANIMOUS(ABSENT ) AND CORRECT COPY OF AN ACTION TAKEN
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ABSENT: ABSTAIN: OF SUPERVISORS ON THE DATE SHOWN.
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Please see Page 2.
PHIL BATCHELOR,CLERK OF THE BOARD OF
SUPERVISORS AND COUNTY ADMINISTRATOR
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DEP`TY
'th Proposition 126, it appears that it would be
appropriatefor the Board of Supervisors to indicate its
support for AB 1246. The amounts shown below are the
combination of the current State excise tax plus the
amount which would be imposed by the proposed
legislation'.
CURRENT PROPOSITION PROPOSITION AB 1246 AB 1290
MEASURE STATE LAW 126 134
ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGE (All amounts per gallon)
BEER $ . 04 $ . 20 $ . 57 $ . 57 $ .21
WINE $ . 01 $ . 20 $1 . 29 $ 1. 29 $ .74
DISTILLED SPIRITS $2. 00 $3 . 30 $8 .40 $ 8. 40 $3.66
cc: County Administrator
Mark Finucane, Health Services Director
Jerry Nava, Alcohol Program Administrator
Les Spahnn, SRJ. Jackson, Barish & Associates