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Bill	Local government: Williamson Act.	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	20112012	AB 1265	California AB 1265 (20112012)	bill	Local government: Williamson Act.	enacted	Nielsen	7	23	6	2011-02-18	2011-07-15	openstates	ocd-bill/251b86bf-37f0-498d-997d-794652b275d9	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB1265	dfb4b996745fbbdd141aba5df6be64c5dca0d1995c4e77bcd44c85d5c078b11f	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 1265 (20112012) — Local government: Williamson Act.

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. 02/18/11 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 04/04/11 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 06/08/11 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
4. 06/30/11 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
5. 07/15/11 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
6. AB1265 (committee substitute) — source
7. 07/05/11 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do pass, to Consent Calendar. — 9–0 (pass) · lower
• AB 1265 NIELSEN Consent Calendar Second Day — 78–0 (pass) · lower
• AB 1265 NIELSEN Concurrence - Urgency Added — 76–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on Agriculture. — 9–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass, but re-refer to the Committee on Appropriations. — 6–0 (pass) · upper
• 3rd Reading AB1265 Nielsen By Wolk Urgency Clause — 31–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Nielsen — primary (person)
• Achadjian — coauthor (person)
• Allen — coauthor (person)
• Berryhill — coauthor (person)
• Chesbro — coauthor (person)
• Conway — coauthor (person)
• Dutton — coauthor (person)
• Fuller — coauthor (person)
• Galgiani — coauthor (person)
• Garrick — coauthor (person)
• Halderman — coauthor (person)
• Jeffries — coauthor (person)
• La Malfa — principal coauthor (person)
• Olsen — coauthor (person)
• Portantino — coauthor (person)
• Rubio — coauthor (person)
• Wolk — principal coauthor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2011-02-18 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2011-02-20 From printer. May be heard in committee March 22.
• 2011-03-21 Referred to Coms. on L. GOV. and AGRI. referral-committee
• 2011-04-04 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on L. GOV. Read second time and amended. reading-2, amendment-introduction, reading-1, amendment-passage
• 2011-04-05 Re-referred to Com. on L. GOV. referral-committee
• 2011-05-05 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on AGRI. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.) (May 4). Re-referred to Com. on AGRI. referral-committee, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2011-05-11 From committee: Do pass. To consent calendar. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.) (May 11). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2011-05-12 Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar. reading-2, reading-1
• 2011-05-19 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 78. Noes 0. Page 1449.) reading-3, reading-1, passage
• 2011-05-19 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2011-06-02 Referred to Com. on GOV. & F. referral-committee
• 2011-06-07 In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
• 2011-06-08 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on GOV. & F. reading-2, amendment-introduction, reading-1, amendment-passage, referral-committee
• 2011-06-15 In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
• 2011-06-22 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 6. Noes 0.) (June 22). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2011-06-30 From committee: Be placed on second reading file pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8 and be amended. committee-passage, amendment-passage
• 2011-06-30 Read second time and amended. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1, amendment-passage
• 2011-07-01 Read third time. Urgency clause adopted. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 31. Noes 0. Page 1684.). reading-3, reading-1, passage
• 2011-07-01 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after July 3 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
• 2011-07-05 Urgency clause adopted. Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 76. Noes 0. Page 2183.). committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage
• 2011-07-05 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 1:30 p.m.
• 2011-07-13 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2011-07-15 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 90, Statutes of 2011.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/251b86bf-37f0-498d-997d-794652b275d9. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).