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Bill	Agricultural land: Williamson Act contracts: cancellation.	Existing law establishes the California Land Conservation Act of 1965, otherwise known as the Williamson Act, and 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, as specified. Existing law provides for the procedure to cancel a contract entered into under these provisions, and provides that the landowner and the Department of Conservation may agree on the cancellation value of the land.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20152016	AB 707	California AB 707 (20152016)	bill	Agricultural land: Williamson Act contracts: cancellation.	enacted	Wood	6	24	7	2015-02-25	2015-10-08	openstates	ocd-bill/1034ae79-1e4d-4eec-8ec9-d50a91cb7438	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB707	bd0a832dc576cc0ca35fe9596dee7ddafe0f69daaf859d7399731415b7875859	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 707 (20152016) — Agricultural land: Williamson Act contracts: cancellation.

Existing law establishes the California Land Conservation Act of 1965, otherwise known as the Williamson Act, and 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, as specified. Existing law provides for the procedure to cancel a contract entered into under these provisions, and provides that the landowner and the Department of Conservation may agree on the cancellation value of the land.

Version chain

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

1. 02/25/15 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 04/06/15 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 08/24/15 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
4. 10/08/15 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
5. AB707 (committee substitute) — source
6. 09/03/15 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• AB 707 WOOD Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 80–0 (pass) · lower
• AB 707 WOOD Consent Calendar Second Day — 74–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• 3rd Reading AB707 Wood By Hertzberg — 40–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with recommendation: To Consent Calendar — 9–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Local Government] — 10–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass. To Consent Calendar. — 17–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Wood — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2015-02-25 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2015-02-26 From printer. May be heard in committee March 28.
• 2015-03-12 Referred to Coms. on AGRI. and L. GOV. referral-committee
• 2015-04-06 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on AGRI. Read second time and amended. reading-2, amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1
• 2015-04-07 Re-referred to Com. on AGRI. referral-committee
• 2015-04-16 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on L. GOV. (Ayes 10. Noes 0.) (April 15). Re-referred to Com. on L. GOV. referral-committee, committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2015-04-30 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.) (April 29). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee, committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2015-05-13 From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 17. Noes 0.) (May 13). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2015-05-14 Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. reading-2, reading-1
• 2015-05-22 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 74. Noes 0. Page 1562.) reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2015-05-22 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2015-06-04 Referred to Com. on GOV. & F. referral-committee
• 2015-06-17 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (June 17). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee, committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2015-06-29 From committee: Be placed on second reading file pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8. committee-passage
• 2015-06-30 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2015-08-24 Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. reading-3, amendment-passage, reading-1
• 2015-08-25 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2015-08-31 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 40. Noes 0. Page 2301.). reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2015-08-31 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after September 2 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
• 2015-09-01 Assembly Rule 77 suspended. (Page 2729.)
• 2015-09-01 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 80. Noes 0. Page 2739.). committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage
• 2015-09-10 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.
• 2015-10-08 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2015-10-08 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 631, Statutes of 2015.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/1034ae79-1e4d-4eec-8ec9-d50a91cb7438. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).