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Bill	Local government: Williamson Act.	The California Land Conservation Act of 1965, otherwise known as the Williamson Act, authorizes cities and counties to enter into 10-year contracts with landowners whereby the landowner agrees to restrict the use of his or her land in exchange for a reduced property taxation rate. Under existing law, the city or county receives a subvention for the property tax revenue lost as a result of these contracts.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20112012	SB 668	California SB 668 (20112012)	bill	Local government: Williamson Act.	enacted	Evans	8	24	6	2011-02-18	2011-09-06	openstates	ocd-bill/c7f1eb4d-7046-4c33-9fce-c4f6b8625366	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201120120SB668	d3c166f8a0cc04d5c182d360050b6a1355e7ce5791824c1758a02454932cb5c9	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California SB 668 (20112012) — Local government: Williamson Act.

The California Land Conservation Act of 1965, otherwise known as the Williamson Act, authorizes cities and counties to enter into 10-year contracts with landowners whereby the landowner agrees to restrict the use of his or her land in exchange for a reduced property taxation rate. Under existing law, the city or county receives a subvention for the property tax revenue lost 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. 03/25/11 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
3. 04/25/11 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
4. 05/10/11 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
5. 06/22/11 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
6. 09/06/11 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
7. SB668 (committee substitute) — source
8. 08/24/11 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Special Consent #3 — 39–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended. — 9–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on Agriculture to Consent Calendar. — 9–0 (pass) · lower
• Special Consent #8 — 34–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass, to Consent Calendar. — 9–0 (pass) · lower
• SB 668 Evans Consent Calendar Second Day — 74–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Evans — primary (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
• 2011-02-19 From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 21.
• 2011-03-03 Referred to Com. on RLS. referral-committee
• 2011-03-25 From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on RLS. reading-2, reading-1, committee-passage, amendment-passage, referral-committee
• 2011-04-07 Re-referred to Com. on GOV. & F. referral-committee
• 2011-04-08 Set for hearing May 4.
• 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
• 2011-05-09 From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 9. Noes 0. Page 859.) (May 4). amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2011-05-10 Read second time and amended. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1, amendment-passage
• 2011-05-18 Ordered to special consent calendar.
• 2011-05-23 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 39. Noes 0. Page 1066.) Ordered to the Assembly. reading-3, reading-1, passage
• 2011-05-23 In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. reading-1
• 2011-06-02 Referred to Coms. on L. GOV. and AGRI. referral-committee
• 2011-06-15 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on AGRI. with recommendation: To consent calendar. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.) (June 15). Re-referred to Com. on AGRI. referral-committee, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2011-06-22 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
• 2011-06-30 From committee: Do pass. Ordered to consent calendar. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.) (June 29). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2011-07-01 Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar. reading-2, reading-1
• 2011-07-07 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 74. Noes 0. Page 2230.) Ordered to the Senate. reading-3, reading-1, passage
• 2011-07-07 In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
• 2011-08-17 Ordered to special consent calendar.
• 2011-08-22 Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 34. Noes 0. Page 2016.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling. committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage
• 2011-08-25 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.
• 2011-09-06 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2011-09-06 Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 254, Statutes of 2011.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/c7f1eb4d-7046-4c33-9fce-c4f6b8625366. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).