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Bill	Local government: urban agriculture incentive zones.	(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	20132014	AB 551	California AB 551 (20132014)	bill	Local government: urban agriculture incentive zones.	enacted	Ting	12	36	9	2013-02-20	2013-09-28	openstates	ocd-bill/a273aa4f-100c-4a3a-acad-45e7fe93b3fc	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB551	479a6a0da38bce7154ee2145f03bfe4842cd04bf9c5dfe4c8e12423d4294c1a2	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 551 (20132014) — Local government: urban agriculture incentive zones.

(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. 02/20/13 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 03/19/13 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 04/09/13 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
4. 04/29/13 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
5. 05/24/13 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
6. 06/25/13 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
7. 07/09/13 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
8. 08/13/13 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
9. 09/03/13 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
10. 09/28/13 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
11. AB551 (committee substitute) — source
12. 09/16/13 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Placed on Appropriations Suspense file. — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended. — 17–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended, and re-refer to the Committee on Appropriations. — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• 3rd Reading AB551 Ting By Beall — 39–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on Local Government. — 7–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended. — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• AB 551 TING Assembly Third Reading — 75–0 (pass) · lower
• AB 551 TING Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 69–6 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on Appropriations. — 7–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Ting — primary (person)
• Alejo — coauthor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2013-02-20 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2013-02-21 From printer. May be heard in committee March 23.
• 2013-03-19 Referred to Coms. on AGRI. and L. GOV. referral-committee
• 2013-03-19 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on AGRI. Read second time and amended. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1
• 2013-03-20 Re-referred to Com. on AGRI. referral-committee
• 2013-04-09 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on AGRI. Read second time and amended. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1
• 2013-04-10 Re-referred to Com. on AGRI. referral-committee
• 2013-04-17 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on L. GOV. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (April 17). Re-referred to Com. on L. GOV. committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee, committee-passage
• 2013-04-25 From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (April 24). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, amendment-passage
• 2013-04-29 Read second time and amended. reading-2, reading-1, amendment-passage
• 2013-04-30 Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee
• 2013-05-15 In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to APPR. suspense file. referral-committee
• 2013-05-24 From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 17. Noes 0.) . committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, amendment-passage
• 2013-05-24 Read second time and amended. Ordered to second reading. reading-2, reading-1, amendment-passage
• 2013-05-28 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2013-05-29 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 75. Noes 0. Page 1746.) reading-3, reading-1, passage
• 2013-05-29 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2013-06-13 Referred to Com. on GOV. & F. referral-committee
• 2013-06-19 In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
• 2013-06-25 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. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1, referral-committee
• 2013-07-08 From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (July 3). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, amendment-passage
• 2013-07-09 Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1, referral-committee
• 2013-07-12 Measure version as amended on July 9 corrected. amendment-passage
• 2013-08-08 In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
• 2013-08-13 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on APPR. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1, referral-committee
• 2013-08-19 In committee: Placed on APPR. suspense file.
• 2013-09-03 From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (August 30). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, amendment-passage
• 2013-09-03 Read second time and amended. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1, amendment-passage
• 2013-09-09 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 39. Noes 0. Page 2252.). reading-3, reading-1, passage
• 2013-09-09 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after September 11 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
• 2013-09-10 Assembly Rule 77 suspended. (Ayes 53. Noes 25. Page 3064.)
• 2013-09-10 Assembly Rule 63 suspended. (Ayes 53. Noes 25. Page 3064.)
• 2013-09-10 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 69. Noes 6. Page 3103.). committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage
• 2013-09-20 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.
• 2013-09-28 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2013-09-28 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 406, Statutes of 2013.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/a273aa4f-100c-4a3a-acad-45e7fe93b3fc. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).