Form 485BPOS PUTNAM CALIFORNIA TAX

	As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on
	February 16, 2018
	Registration No. 2-81011
	811-03630
	SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
	WASHINGTON, D.C. 20549
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	FORM N-1A
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	REGISTRATION STATEMENT UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933	/ X /
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	Pre-Effective Amendment No.	/ /
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	Post-Effective Amendment No. 50	/ X /
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	REGISTRATION STATEMENT UNDER THE INVESTMENT COMPANY	/ X /
	ACT OF 1940	----
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	Amendment No. 50	/ X /
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	PUTNAM CALIFORNIA TAX EXEMPT INCOME FUND
	(Exact Name of Registrant as Specified in Charter)
	One Post Office Square, Boston, Massachusetts 02109
	(Address of Principal Executive Offices) (Zip Code)
	Registrant's Telephone Number, including Area Code
	(617) 292-1000
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	It is proposed that this filing will become effective
	(check appropriate box)
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/ /	immediately upon filing pursuant to paragraph (b)
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/ X /	on January 30, 2018 pursuant to paragraph (b)
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/ /	60 days after filing pursuant to paragraph (a)(1)
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/ /	on (date) pursuant to paragraph (a)(1)
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/ /	75 days after filing pursuant to paragraph (a)(2)
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/ /	on (date) pursuant to paragraph (a)(2) of Rule 485.
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	If appropriate, check the following box:
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/ /	this post-effective amendment designates a new
----	effective date for a previously filed post-effective amendment.
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	ROBERT T. BURNS, Vice President
	PUTNAM CALIFORNIA TAX EXEMPT INCOME FUND
	One Post Office Square
	Boston, Massachusetts 02109
	(Name and address of agent for service)
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	Copy to:
	BRYAN CHEGWIDDEN, Esquire
	ROPES & GRAY LLP
	1211 Avenue of the Americas
	New York, New York 10036
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SIGNATURES

 

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended, the Registrant certifies that it meets all of the requirements for effectiveness of this Registration Statement under Rule 485(b) under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and has duly caused this Amendment to its Registration Statement to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, duly authorized, in the City of Boston, and The Commonwealth of Massachusetts, on the 16th day of February, 2018.

 

Putnam California Tax Exempt Income Fund

 

	By: /s/ Jonathan S. Horwitz, Executive Vice President,
	Principal Executive Officer and Compliance Liaison

 

 

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, this Amendment to the Registration Statement has been signed below by the following persons in the capacities and on the date indicated:

 

Signature

Title

 

Jameson A. Baxter*

Chair, Board of Trustees

 

Kenneth R. Leibler*

Vice Chair, Board of Trustees

 

Robert L. Reynolds*

President and Trustee

 

Jonathan S. Horwitz*	Executive Vice President, Principal Executive Officer
	and Compliance Liaison

 

Janet C. Smith*	Vice President, Principal Financial Officer, Principal
	Accounting Officer and Assistant Treasurer

 

Liaquat Ahamed*

Trustee

 

Ravi Akhoury*

Trustee

 

Barbara M. Baumann*

Trustee

 

Katinka Domotorffy*

Trustee

 

Catharine Bond Hill*

Trustee

 

Paul L. Joskow*

Trustee

 

Robert E. Patterson*

Trustee

 

George Putnam, III*

Trustee

 

Manoj P. Singh*

Trustee

 

 

 

 

 

By:	/s/ Jonathan S. Horwitz, as Attorney-in-Fact
	February 16, 2018
	*Signed pursuant to power of attorney filed in

	Post-Effective Amendment No. 49 to the Registrant’s
	Registration Statement on January 25, 2018.

 

 

 

 

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