BILL NUMBER: AB 1965	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Yamada

                        FEBRUARY 17, 2010

   An act to add Section 16142.4 to the Government Code, relating to
agricultural land, and making an appropriation therefor.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 1965, as introduced, Yamada. Agricultural land: subventions.
   Existing law continuously appropriates to the Controller from the
General Fund a sum sufficient to provide replacement revenues to
local government for a reduction of property tax on open-space lands,
as specified.
   This bill would, for the 2008-09 fiscal year, appropriate
specified amounts from the General Fund to each county in the state
for open-space lands pursuant to the Williamson Act, as specified.
   Vote: 2/3. Appropriation: yes. Fiscal committee: yes.
State-mandated local program: no.


THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  SECTION 1.  Section 16142.4 is added to the Government Code, to
read:
   16142.4.  For the 2008-09 fiscal year, pursuant to Section 16140,
the subvention payment to counties shall be as follows:
   (a) The following counties shall receive 75 percent of the actual
subvention payment calculated for that county, in the following
amounts:
Colusa................... $ 568,900
Glenn.................... $ 706,730
Kings.................... $1,804,625
Lassen................... $ 293,265
Mariposa................. $ 138,673
Modoc.................... $ 105,071
Plumas................... $  69,936
San Benito............... $ 517,874
Sierra................... $ 35,848
Siskiyou................. $ 519,634
Trinity.................. $  14,715


   (b) The following counties shall receive 65 percent of the actual
subvention payment calculated for that county, in the following
amounts:
Amador................... $ 64,477
Calaveras................ $ 117,590
Fresno................... $3,282,985
Imperial................. $ 359,344
Lake..................... $ 40,149
Madera................... $ 808,157
Sutter................... $ 135,881
Tehama................... $ 573,454
Tulare................... $2,060,381
Yolo..................... $ 771,843


   (c) The following counties shall receive 55 percent of the actual
subvention payment calculated for that county, in the following
amounts:
Butte..................... $ 320,578
Humbolt................... $ 105,772
Kern...................... $2,377,574
Mendocino................. $ 249,966
Merced.................... $ 699,236
Mono...................... $   32,941
Monterey.................. $  477,887
San Joaquin............... $  961,307
San Luis Obispo........... $ 544,167
Shasta.................... $  119,651
Solano.................... $  354,412
Stanislaus................ $  796,459
Tuolumne.................. $  58,182


   (d) The following counties shall receive at least 20 percent of
the actual subvention payment calculated for that county, in the
following amounts:
Alameda.................... $ 23,002
Contra Costa............... $ 12,549
El Dorado.................. $  7,512
Los Angeles................ $  7,209
Marin...................... $ 19,829
Napa....................... $ 16,239
Nevada..................... $ 3,124
Orange..................... $   63
Placer..................... $ 11,458
Riverside.................. $ 40,037
Sacramento................. $ 92,787
San Bernardino............. $  2,373
San Diego.................. $ 14,760
San Mateo.................. $ 10,424
Santa Barbara.............. $116,941
Santa Clara................ $ 62,207
Santa Cruz................. $  4,927
Sonoma..................... $ 78,956
Ventura.................... $ 58,447