Effort to Put Elected Board Over California Tax Policy Shelved

A bill meant to give supervision of California’s myriad tax agencies to an elected board failed to advance out of a key state Senate committee.

The bill (S.B. 1436) would have created a five-member Tax Policy Oversight Board and would have restored a measure of authority to the State Board of Equalization, which was stripped of much of its power seven years ago following a string of ethical and legal controversies. It was held in suspense Thursday by the California Senate Appropriations Committee as part of a series of votes on the fate of bills that would require ...