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Bill	Local government: Williamson Act: contracts.	Existing law, the Williamson Act, authorizes a city or county to enter into 10-year contracts with owners of land devoted to agricultural use, whereby the owners agree to continue using the property for that purpose, and the city or county agrees to value the land accordingly for purposes of property taxation. Existing law sets forth procedures for reimbursing cities and counties for property tax revenues not received as a result of these contracts.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20092010	AB 2530	California AB 2530 (20092010)	bill	Local government: Williamson Act: contracts.	enacted	Nielsen	7	39	7	2010-02-19	2010-09-27	openstates	ocd-bill/da69616e-930e-44a1-8dfa-72c24f570777	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB2530	a54b70a79214fd03f221743ed7d37d4ade1b5c3ec11a1c141b97375867b02293	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 2530 (20092010) — Local government: Williamson Act: contracts.

Existing law, the Williamson Act, authorizes a city or county to enter into 10-year contracts with owners of land devoted to agricultural use, whereby the owners agree to continue using the property for that purpose, and the city or county agrees to value the land accordingly for purposes of property taxation. Existing law sets forth procedures for reimbursing cities and counties for property tax revenues not received as a result of these contracts.

Version chain

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

1. 02/19/10 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 04/08/10 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 08/19/10 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
4. 08/25/10 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
5. 09/27/10 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
6. AB2530 (committee substitute) — source
7. 09/13/10 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• AB 2530 NIELSEN Consent Calendar Second Day Regular Session — pass (pass) · lower
• Assembly 3rd Reading AB2530 Nielsen By Price — pass (pass) · upper
• Do pass, to Consent Calendar. — pass (pass) · lower
• From Committee: Amendments returned to Senate floor for consideration. — pass (pass) · upper
• AB 2530 NIELSEN Concurrence in Senate Amendments — pass (pass) · lower
• Senate amendments be concurred in. — pass (pass) · lower
• Do pass and be placed on the Consent Calendar. — pass (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Nielsen — primary (person)
• Wolk — principal coauthor (person)
• Yamada — principal coauthor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2010-02-19 Introduced. To print. introduction
• 2010-02-21 From printer. May be heard in committee March 23.
• 2010-02-22 Read first time. reading-1
• 2010-03-25 Referred to Coms. on L. GOV. and NAT. RES. referral-committee
• 2010-04-07 In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
• 2010-04-08 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on L. GOV. Read second time and amended. amendment-introduction, reading-2, amendment-passage, reading-1
• 2010-04-12 Re-referred to Com. on L. GOV. referral-committee
• 2010-04-29 From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (April 28). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2010-05-03 Read second time. To Consent Calendar. reading-2, reading-1
• 2010-05-06 Read third time, passed, and to Senate. (Ayes 74. Noes 0. Page 5050.) reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2010-05-06 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2010-05-20 Referred to Com. on L. GOV. referral-committee
• 2010-06-16 From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (June 16). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2010-06-17 Read second time. To Consent Calendar. reading-2, reading-1
• 2010-06-24 From Consent Calendar.
• 2010-06-24 Ordered to third reading.
• 2010-06-24 To inactive file on motion of Senator Strickland.
• 2010-08-18 From inactive file.
• 2010-08-18 To second reading.
• 2010-08-19 Read second time. To third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2010-08-19 Read third time, amended. To second reading. reading-3, amendment-passage, reading-1
• 2010-08-20 Read second time. To third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2010-08-20 Re-referred to Com. on RLS. pursuant to Senate Rule 29.10. referral-committee
• 2010-08-20 From committee: Be re-referred to Com. on L. GOV. pursuant to Senate Rule 29.10. (Ayes 3. Noes 0.) Re-referred to Com. on L. GOV. referral-committee, committee-passage
• 2010-08-23 Joint Rule 61(b)(16) suspended. (Ayes 36. Noes 0. Page 4787.)
• 2010-08-23 Senate Rule 29.3 suspended.
• 2010-08-25 From committee: Return to Senate floor for consideration. (Ayes 4. Noes 0.) committee-passage
• 2010-08-25 Ordered to third reading.
• 2010-08-25 Read third time, amended. To second reading. reading-3, amendment-passage, reading-1
• 2010-08-26 Read second time. To third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2010-08-30 Read third time, passed, and to Assembly. (Ayes 37. Noes 0. Page 4997.) reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2010-08-30 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending.
• 2010-08-30 Re-referred to Com. on L. GOV. pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.2. referral-committee
• 2010-08-30 Joint Rule 62(a), file notice suspended. (Page 6850.)
• 2010-08-30 From committee: With recommendation: That Senate amendments be concurred in. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.) (August 30). committee-passage
• 2010-08-31 Senate amendments concurred in. To enrollment. (Ayes 78. Noes 0. Page 6915.) amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2010-09-15 Enrolled and to the Governor at 4:45 p.m.
• 2010-09-25 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2010-09-27 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 391, Statutes of 2010.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/da69616e-930e-44a1-8dfa-72c24f570777. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).