California legislation · 2025-2026 Regular Session
California SB5: Enhanced infrastructure financing districts and community revitalization and investment areas: allocation of taxes: agricultural land exclusion.
Status: Vetoed, March 2, 2026
What the bill says
An act to amend Sections 53398.75 and 62005 of, and to add Sections 53398.75.1 and 62009 to, the Government Code, relating to local government. local government Enhanced infrastructure financing districts and community revitalization and investment areas: allocation of taxes: agricultural land exclusion. Existing law, the California Land Conservation Act of 1965, otherwise known as the Williamson Act, authorizes a city or county to enter into contracts with owners of agricultural land to preserve the land for agricultural use, as specified, in return for reduced property tax assessments…
From the enrolled text, September 12, 2025:
An act to amend Sections 53398.75 and 62005 of, and to add Sections 53398.75.1 and 62009 to, the Government Code, relating to local government. local government Enhanced infrastructure financing districts and community revitalization and investment areas: allocation of taxes: agricultural land exclusion. Existing law, the California Land Conservation Act of 1965, otherwise known as the Williamson Act, authorizes a city or county to enter into contracts with owners of agricultural land to preserve the land for agricultural use, as specified, in return for reduced property tax assessments. The act also authorizes a landowner of specified agricultural land to petition the city or county to cancel the Williamson Act contract in order to designate the land as a farmland security zone, whereby the land is eligible for a specified property tax valuation and taxed at a reduced rate for specified special taxes. Existing law authorizes the legislative body of a city or a county to establish an enhanced infrastructure financing district, with a governing body referred to as the public financing authority, to finance public capital facilities or other specified projects of communitywide significance. Existing law requires the public financing authority to prepare and adopt a proposed infrastructure financing plan, as specified. Existing law authorizes the plan to require a certain portion of specified taxes levied upon property within the district …