---
type: "Bill"
title: "Agricultural land: Williamson Act: lot lines."
description: "Existing law, the Williamson Act, until January 1, 2010, authorizes a city or county and a landowner to agree to rescind a contract or contracts and simultaneously enter into a new contract or contracts to facilitate lot line adjustments."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20092010"
identifier: "AB 1441"
citation: "California AB 1441 (20092010)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Agricultural land: Williamson Act: lot lines."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Committee on Agriculture"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 20
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2009-02-27"
last_action: "2009-08-06"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/c2516a0a-a97a-44c1-8ff5-97c58dea6d0e"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB1441"
source_hash: "26d86c7932092569576c04f7e41fdd054eb6b4faab0c60a8e43c1fb1f71c1ea8"
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 1441 (20092010) — Agricultural land: Williamson Act: lot lines.

Existing law, the Williamson Act, until January 1, 2010, authorizes a city or county and a landowner to agree to rescind a contract or contracts and simultaneously enter into a new contract or contracts to facilitate lot line adjustments.

## Version chain

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

1. **02/27/09 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB1441&version=20090AB144199INT)
2. **08/06/09 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB1441&version=20090AB144197CHP)
3. **AB1441** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB1441)
4. **06/26/09 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB1441&version=20090AB144198ENR)

## Votes

- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on Natural Resources. — **pass** (pass) · lower
- Consent Calendar 2nd AB1441 Committee on AGRI. (Galgiani) — **pass** (pass) · upper
- AB 1441 AGRI. Consent Calendar Second Day Regular Session — **pass** (pass) · lower
- Do pass, to Consent Calendar. — **pass** (pass) · lower
- Do pass and be placed on the Consent Calendar. — **pass** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Committee on Agriculture — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2009-02-27** Introduced. To print. `introduction`
- **2009-03-01** From printer. May be heard in committee March 30.
- **2009-03-02** Read first time. `reading-1`
- **2009-04-02** Referred to Coms. on AGRI. and NAT. RES. `referral-committee`
- **2009-04-16** From committee: Do pass, and re-refer to Com. on NAT. RES. Re-referred. (Ayes 8. Noes 0.) (April 15). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2009-05-05** From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (May 4). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2009-05-06** Read second time. To Consent Calendar. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2009-05-11** Read third time, passed, and to Senate. (Ayes 78. Noes 0. Page 1369.) `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2009-05-11** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2009-05-21** Referred to Com. on L. GOV. `referral-committee`
- **2009-06-17** From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (June 17). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2009-06-18** Read second time. To Consent Calendar. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2009-06-24** Read third time, passed, and to Assembly. (Ayes 40. Noes 0. Page 1428.) `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2009-06-24** In Assembly. To enrollment.
- **2009-06-30** Enrolled and to the Governor at 3 p.m.
- **2009-07-01** Withdrawn from Governor.
- **2009-07-01** Ordered returned to enrollment.
- **2009-07-30** Enrolled and to the Governor at 2:30 p.m.
- **2009-08-05** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2009-08-06** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 148, Statutes of 2009.

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/c2516a0a-a97a-44c1-8ff5-97c58dea6d0e`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).