---
type: "Bill"
title: "Williamson Act: Kern County."
description: "Williamson Act: Kern County."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "19992000"
identifier: "AB 2698"
citation: "California AB 2698 (19992000)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Williamson Act: Kern County."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Florez"]
version_count: 7
action_count: 22
vote_count: 8
first_action: "2000-02-25"
last_action: "2000-09-30"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/291de1a3-cefe-478f-b5ec-bb8347468c74"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=199920000AB2698"
source_hash: "05b81397fb2a447b898ffade0cbd7fc8c1070a66090841f28c5498f07c9be665"
vintage: "2026-07-01"
source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
confidence: "reported"
tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-ca"]
---

# California AB 2698 (19992000) — Williamson Act: Kern County.

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **02/25/00 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=199920000AB2698&version=19990AB269899INT)
2. **05/08/00 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=199920000AB2698&version=19990AB269898AMD)
3. **08/10/00 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=199920000AB2698&version=19990AB269897AMD)
4. **08/21/00 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=199920000AB2698&version=19990AB269896AMD)
5. **09/30/00 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=199920000AB2698&version=19990AB269894CHP)
6. **AB2698** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=199920000AB2698)
7. **08/25/00 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=199920000AB2698&version=19990AB269895ENR)

## Votes

- Assembly 3rd Reading AB2698 Florez By Costa — **pass** (pass) · upper
- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on International Trade and Development. — **pass** (pass) · lower
- Do pass as amended. — **pass** (pass) · upper
- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on Appropriations. — **pass** (pass) · lower
- AB 2698 AGRI. THIRD READING — **pass** (pass) · lower
- AB 2698 FLOREZ CONCURRENCE W/O REFERENCE TO FILE URGENCY ADDED — **pass** (pass) · lower
- Do pass as amended. — **pass** (pass) · lower
- Senate amendments be concurred in. — **pass** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Florez — primary (person)
- Ashburn — coauthor (person)
- Cardoza — coauthor (person)
- Costa — principal coauthor (person)
- Dickerson — coauthor (person)
- Ducheny — coauthor (person)
- Granlund — coauthor (person)
- Lempert — coauthor (person)
- Leonard — coauthor (person)
- Maddox — coauthor (person)
- Mazzoni — coauthor (person)
- Morrow — coauthor (person)
- Pescetti — coauthor (person)
- Reyes — coauthor (person)
- Torlakson — coauthor (person)
- Wright — coauthor (person)
- Zettel — coauthor (person)

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **2000-09-30** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 1045, Statutes of 2000.
- **2000-09-30** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2000-09-01** Enrolled and to the Governor at 4 p.m.
- **2000-08-25** Re-referred to Standing Committee on Agriculture pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.2. Joint Rule 62(a), file notice waived. (Page 8331.) From committee: With recommendation: That Senate amendments be concurred in. (Ayes 8. Noes 0.) (August 25). Urgency clause adopted. Senate amendments concurred in. To enrollment. (Ayes 58. Noes 7. Page 8376.). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage, referral-committee`
- **2000-08-24** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after August 26 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77. Assembly Rule 77 suspended.
- **2000-08-24** Read third time. Urgency clause adopted. Passed and to Assembly. (Ayes 34. Noes 1. Page 5948.) `passage, reading-3, reading-1`
- **2000-08-21** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 6. Noes 0.). Read second time, amended, and to third reading. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage, reading-2, reading-1`
- **2000-08-18** Withdrawn from committee. Re-referred to Standing Committee on Local Government. `referral-committee`
- **2000-08-14** Withdrawn from committee. Re-referred to Standing Committee on Rules. `referral-committee`
- **2000-08-10** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on AGR. & WAT. RES. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2000-05-23** Referred to Com. on AGR. & WAT. RES. `referral-committee`
- **2000-05-15** In Senate. Read first time. To Standing Committee on Rules for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2000-05-15** Read third time, passed, and to Senate. (Ayes 48. Noes 23. Page 6374.) `passage, reading-3, reading-1`
- **2000-05-09** Read second time. To third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2000-05-08** Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading. `amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1`
- **2000-05-04** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 15. Noes 5.) (May 3). `committee-passage, amendment-introduction, amendment-passage`
- **2000-04-24** From committee: Do pass, and re-refer to Standing Committee on Appropriations Re-referred. (Ayes 5. Noes 1.) (April 24). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
- **2000-03-30** From committee: Do pass, and re-refer to Com. on I. T. & D. Re-referred. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (March 29). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2000-03-16** Referred to Standing Committee on Agriculture and I. T. & D. `referral-committee`
- **2000-02-28** Read first time. `reading-1`
- **2000-02-27** From printer. May be heard in committee March 28.
- **2000-02-25** Introduced. To print. `introduction`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/291de1a3-cefe-478f-b5ec-bb8347468c74`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).