---
type: "Bill"
title: "Property taxation: administration: rebuttable presumption: owner-occupied."
description: "Existing property law provides for a rebuttable presumption regarding the burden of proof in favor of a taxpayer or assessee who has supplied the required information to the assessor in an administrative hearing, involving the imposition of a tax on, or the assessment of, an owner-occupied single-family dwelling, or the appeal of an escape assessment."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20112012"
identifier: "AB 711"
citation: "California AB 711 (20112012)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Property taxation: administration: rebuttable presumption: owner-occupied."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Lara"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 16
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2011-02-17"
last_action: "2011-09-06"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/6d603988-e73f-4032-89f2-d807619f807d"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB711"
source_hash: "70dcdb56f5f5aec2c50dd1794253bf8761ac984152808d2cfca47fefe95ec551"
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 711 (20112012) — Property taxation: administration: rebuttable presumption: owner-occupied.

Existing property law provides for a rebuttable presumption regarding the burden of proof in favor of a taxpayer or assessee who has supplied the required information to the assessor in an administrative hearing, involving the imposition of a tax on, or the assessment of, an owner-occupied single-family dwelling, or the appeal of an escape assessment.

## Version chain

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

1. **02/17/11 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB711&version=20110AB71199INT)
2. **09/06/11 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB711&version=20110AB71197CHP)
3. **AB711** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB711)
4. **08/22/11 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB711&version=20110AB71198ENR)

## Votes

- 3rd Reading AB711 Lara By Wolk — **21–17** (pass) · upper
- Do pass. — **6–3** (pass) · upper
- Do pass. — **6–0** (pass) · lower
- AB 711 LARA Assembly Third Reading — **48–12** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Lara — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2011-02-17** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
- **2011-02-18** From printer. May be heard in committee March 20.
- **2011-03-07** Referred to Com. on REV. & TAX. `referral-committee`
- **2011-04-05** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 6. Noes 0.) (April 4). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2011-04-06** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2011-04-14** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 48. Noes 12. Page 976.) `reading-3, reading-1, passage`
- **2011-04-14** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2011-05-12** Referred to Com. on GOV. & F. `referral-committee`
- **2011-06-15** In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
- **2011-06-29** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 6. Noes 3.) (June 29). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2011-06-30** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2011-08-18** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 21. Noes 17. Page 1959.). `reading-3, reading-1, passage`
- **2011-08-18** In Assembly. Ordered to Engrossing and Enrolling. `committee-passage`
- **2011-08-24** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 11:30 a.m.
- **2011-09-06** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2011-09-06** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 220, Statutes of 2011.

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/6d603988-e73f-4032-89f2-d807619f807d`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).