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Bill	Local government: solar-use easement.	(1) 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 authorizes the parties to a Williamson Act contract to mutually agree to rescind a contract under the act in order to simultaneously enter into an open-space easement for a certain period of years.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20112012	SB 618	California SB 618 (20112012)	bill	Local government: solar-use easement.	enacted	Wolk	12	40	12	2011-02-18	2011-10-08	openstates	ocd-bill/004ed77d-2603-4e07-ad4a-309d86911bda	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201120120SB618	38928183d91edda3431b8deffed29a337b95175502951ceaf352c6212ac99c54	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California SB 618 (20112012) — Local government: solar-use easement.

(1) 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 authorizes the parties to a Williamson Act contract to mutually agree to rescind a contract under the act in order to simultaneously enter into an open-space easement for a certain period of years.

Version chain

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

1. 02/18/11 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 04/25/11 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
3. 05/03/11 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
4. 05/11/11 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
5. 06/23/11 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
6. 07/06/11 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
7. 08/30/11 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
8. 09/02/11 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
9. 09/08/11 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
10. 10/08/11 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
11. SB618 (committee substitute) — source
12. 09/14/11 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do pass as amended. — 17–0 (pass) · lower
• SB 618 Wolk Senate Third Reading By PÉREZ, V.M. Amend By PÉREZ, V.M. Set #1 — 51–26 (pass) · lower
• Do pass. — 8–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended and re-refer to Committee on Appropriations with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. — 9–0 (pass) · lower
• SB 618 Wolk Senate Third Reading By PÉREZ, V.M. — 77–0 (pass) · lower
• Placed on Appropriations Suspense file. — 9–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass. — 6–0 (pass) · lower
• Special Consent #4 — 39–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on Agriculture. — 9–0 (pass) · lower
• W/O REF. TO FILE SB618 Wolk Concurrence — 35–1 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended, and re-refer to the Committee on Appropriations. — 9–0 (pass) · upper
• SB 618 Wolk Senate Third Reading By PÉREZ, V.M. Motion to Suspend the Rules — 48–27 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Wolk — primary (person)
• Alejo — coauthor (person)
• Galgiani — coauthor (person)
• V. Manuel Pérez — principal coauthor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2011-02-18 Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. introduction, reading-1
• 2011-02-20 From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 22.
• 2011-03-03 Referred to Coms. on GOV. & F. and APPR. referral-committee
• 2011-03-09 Set for hearing April 27.
• 2011-04-25 From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on GOV. & F. reading-2, reading-1, committee-passage, amendment-passage, referral-committee
• 2011-05-02 From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 9. Noes 0. Page 762.) (April 27). amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2011-05-03 Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. reading-2, reading-1, amendment-passage, referral-committee
• 2011-05-06 Set for hearing May 16.
• 2011-05-11 From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. reading-2, reading-1, committee-passage, amendment-passage, referral-committee
• 2011-05-16 Placed on APPR. suspense file.
• 2011-05-20 Set for hearing May 26.
• 2011-05-26 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 8. Noes 0. Page 1120.) (May 26). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2011-05-27 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2011-05-31 Ordered to special consent calendar.
• 2011-06-02 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 39. Noes 0. Page 1283.) Ordered to the Assembly. reading-3, reading-1, passage
• 2011-06-02 In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. reading-1
• 2011-06-13 Referred to Coms. on AGRI. and L. GOV. referral-committee
• 2011-06-15 Re-referred to Coms. on L. GOV. and AGRI. referral-committee
• 2011-06-23 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on AGRI. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.) (June 22). Re-referred to Com. on AGRI. referral-committee, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2011-06-23 From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on AGRI. reading-2, reading-1, committee-passage, amendment-passage, referral-committee
• 2011-07-05 From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To consent calendar. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.) (June 29). amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2011-07-06 Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. reading-2, reading-1, amendment-passage, referral-committee
• 2011-08-17 Set, first hearing. Referred to APPR. suspense file. referral-committee
• 2011-08-29 From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 17. Noes 0.) (August 25). amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2011-08-30 Read second time and amended. Ordered to second reading. reading-2, reading-1, amendment-passage
• 2011-08-31 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2011-09-02 Assembly Rule 69 suspended. (Ayes 48. Noes 27. Page 2806.)
• 2011-09-02 Read third time and amended. (Ayes 51. Noes 26. Page 2863.) reading-3, reading-1, amendment-passage
• 2011-09-02 Ordered to third reading.
• 2011-09-06 Re-referred to Com. on NAT. RES. pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.2. referral-committee
• 2011-09-08 From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on NAT. RES. reading-2, reading-1, committee-passage, amendment-passage, referral-committee
• 2011-09-09 Joint Rule 62(a) file notice suspended. (Page 3180.)
• 2011-09-09 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 6. Noes 0.) (September 9). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2011-09-09 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2011-09-09 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 77. Noes 0. Page 3229.) Ordered to the Senate. reading-3, reading-1, passage
• 2011-09-09 In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
• 2011-09-10 Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 35. Noes 1. Page 2486.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling. committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage
• 2011-09-16 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m.
• 2011-10-08 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2011-10-08 Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 596, Statutes of 2011.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/004ed77d-2603-4e07-ad4a-309d86911bda. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).