republic-os/legislation/us/states/ca/20132014/ab-2241.md

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Bill	Local government: agricultural land.	Existing law authorizes the parties to a Williamson Act contract, after approval by the Department of Conservation, to mutually agree to rescind the contract in order to simultaneously enter into a solar-use easement that would require that the land be used for solar photovoltaic facilities for a term no less than 20 years, except as specified. Existing law requires the city or county to charge the property owner a rescission fee of 614% of the fair market value of the property at the time of the rescission if the property was under a Williamson Act contract, and 1212% of the fair market value of the property at the time of the rescission if the land was held under a contract designating the property a farmland security zone.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20132014	AB 2241	California AB 2241 (20132014)	bill	Local government: agricultural land.	enacted	Eggman	5	22	8	2014-02-21	2014-09-26	openstates	ocd-bill/959ad366-4623-4408-8a6f-af04204fd61e	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB2241	fb8806a3c7d10faaebb24ff625969025810b5bda44972375b162b66b61ba5250	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 2241 (20132014) — Local government: agricultural land.

Existing law authorizes the parties to a Williamson Act contract, after approval by the Department of Conservation, to mutually agree to rescind the contract in order to simultaneously enter into a solar-use easement that would require that the land be used for solar photovoltaic facilities for a term no less than 20 years, except as specified. Existing law requires the city or county to charge the property owner a rescission fee of 614% of the fair market value of the property at the time of the rescission if the property was under a Williamson Act contract, and 1212% of the fair market value of the property at the time of the rescission if the land was held under a contract designating the property a farmland security zone.

Version chain

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

1. 02/21/14 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 05/23/14 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 09/26/14 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
4. AB2241 (committee substitute) — source
5. 08/21/14 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do pass. — 5–0 (pass) · upper
• 3rd Reading AB2241 Eggman By Wolk — 33–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended. — 16–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on Appropriations. — 9–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on Local Government. — 6–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass, but re-refer to the Committee on Appropriations Recommend Consent. — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• Placed on Appropriations Suspense file. — 6–0 (pass) · upper
• AB 2241 EGGMAN Assembly Third Reading — 76–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Eggman — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2014-02-21 Introduced. To print. introduction
• 2014-02-23 From printer. May be heard in committee March 25.
• 2014-02-24 Read first time. reading-1
• 2014-03-06 Referred to Coms. on AGRI. and L. GOV. referral-committee
• 2014-03-26 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on L. GOV. (Ayes 6. Noes 0.) (March 26). Re-referred to Com. on L. GOV. committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee, committee-passage
• 2014-04-03 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.) (April 2). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee, committee-passage
• 2014-04-09 In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to APPR. suspense file. referral-committee
• 2014-05-23 From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 16. Noes 0.) (May 23). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, amendment-passage
• 2014-05-23 Read second time and amended. Ordered to second reading. reading-2, reading-1, amendment-passage
• 2014-05-27 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2014-05-28 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 76. Noes 0. Page 5270.) reading-3, reading-1, passage
• 2014-05-28 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2014-06-11 Referred to Com. on GOV. & F. referral-committee
• 2014-06-18 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: to consent calendar. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (June 18). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee, committee-passage
• 2014-06-30 In committee: Placed on APPR. suspense file.
• 2014-08-14 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 5. Noes 0.) (August 14). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2014-08-18 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2014-08-19 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 33. Noes 0. Page 4618.). reading-3, reading-1, passage
• 2014-08-19 In Assembly. Ordered to Engrossing and Enrolling. committee-passage
• 2014-09-02 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.
• 2014-09-26 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2014-09-26 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 582, Statutes of 2014.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/959ad366-4623-4408-8a6f-af04204fd61e. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).