SB 170

  • California Senate Bill
  • 2009-2010 Regular Session
  • Introduced in Senate Feb 14, 2009
  • Senate
  • Assembly
  • Governor

Agricultural lands: cancellation of Williamson Act contracts.

Abstract

Existing law authorizes a landowner to petition a county board or supervisors or a city council for cancellation of any Williamson Act contract for all or part of the subject land. The board or council is authorized to grant tentative approval for cancellation of a contract if it finds that cancellation is in the public interest. For these purposes, the board or council is required to find that other public concerns substantially outweigh the objectives of the Williamson Act and that either there is no proximate noncontracted land that is both available and suitable for the use to which it is proposed the contracted land be put, or that development of the contracted land would provide more contiguous patterns of urban development than development of proximate noncontracted land. This bill would establish a rebuttable presumption that where a federally recognized Indian tribe has petitioned for a contract cancellation that tribal cultural centers, infrastructure, and housing are alternative uses that are public concerns that substantially outweigh the objectives of the act and that for tribal cultural centers, infrastructure, and housing, land contiguous to existing tribal land would provide more contiguous patterns of urban development than development of proximate noncontracted land.

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Feb 01, 2010

Senate

Returned to Secretary of Senate pursuant to Joint Rule 56.

Apr 15, 2009

Senate

Testimony taken. Hearing postponed by committee.

Apr 13, 2009

Senate

From committee with author's amendments. Read second time. Amended. Re-referred to Com. on L. GOV.

  • Reading-1
  • Referral-Committee
  • Reading-2
  • Committee-Passage
Com. on L. GOV.

Apr 01, 2009

Senate

Set for hearing April 15.

Mar 31, 2009

Senate

Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.

Mar 25, 2009

Senate

From committee with author's amendments. Read second time. Amended. Re-referred to Com. on L. GOV.

  • Reading-1
  • Referral-Committee
  • Reading-2
  • Committee-Passage
Com. on L. GOV.

Mar 09, 2009

Senate

Set for hearing April 1.

Senate

To Coms. on L. GOV. and JUD.

Feb 15, 2009

Senate

From print. May be acted upon on or after March 17.

Feb 14, 2009

Senate

Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print.

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02/14/09 - Introduced PDF
03/25/09 - Amended Senate PDF
04/13/09 - Amended Senate PDF

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