BILL NUMBER: AB 1265	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Nielsen

                        FEBRUARY 18, 2011

   An act to add Section 51244.4 to the Government Code, relating to
local government.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 1265, as introduced, Nielsen. Local government: Williamson Act.

   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. Beginning
January 1, 2011, and until January 1, 2015, existing law authorizes a
county, in any fiscal year in which payments authorized for
reimbursement to a county for lost revenue are less than 1/2 of the
participating county's actual foregone general fund property tax
revenue, to revise the term for newly renewed and new contracts for a
term of 9 years or 18 years, as the case may be, and require the
assessor to value the property, as specified, based on the revised
contract term. Existing law requires a city or county that has
elected to adopt a shorter contract term, to provide notice, of among
other things, the landowner's right to prevent the reduction in the
term of his or her contract by serving notice of nonrenewal, as
specified.
   This bill would specify that payments under the contracts that are
authorized until January 1, 2015, may be collected after January 1,
2015.
   Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: no.
State-mandated local program: no.


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

  SECTION 1.  Section 51244.4 is added to the Government Code, to
read:
   51244.4.   Notwithstanding subdivision (c) of Section 51244.3,
payments authorized until January 1, 2015, pursuant to Sections
16142, 16142.1, 51244, or 51244.3, may be collected after January 1,
2015.