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SB-5 Infrastructure financing districts: allocation of taxes: agricultural land exclusion.(2025-2026)



As Amends the Law Today


SECTION 1.

 Section 53396 of the Government Code is amended to read:

53396.
 Any infrastructure financing plan may contain a provision that taxes,  taxes other than those specified in Section 53396.1,  if any, levied upon taxable property in the area included within the infrastructure financing district each year by or for the benefit of the State of California, or any affected taxing entity after the effective date of the ordinance adopted pursuant to Section 53395.23 to create the district, shall be divided, subject to the provisions of Section 53993, as follows:
(a) That portion of the taxes which would be produced by the rate upon which the tax is levied each year by or for each of the affected taxing entities upon the total sum of the assessed value of the taxable property in the district as shown upon the assessment roll used in connection with the taxation of the property by the affected taxing entity, last equalized prior to the effective date of the ordinance adopted pursuant to Section 53395.23 to create the district, shall be allocated to, and when collected shall be paid to, the respective affected taxing entities as taxes by or for the affected taxing entities on all other property are paid.
(b) That portion of the levied taxes each year specified in the adopted infrastructure financing plan for the city or county and each affected taxing entity which has agreed to participate pursuant to Section 53395.19 in excess of the amount specified in subdivision (a) shall be allocated to, and when collected shall be paid into a special fund of, the district for all lawful purposes of the district. Unless and until the total assessed valuation of the taxable property in a district exceeds the total assessed value of the taxable property in the district as shown by the last equalized assessment roll referred to in subdivision (a), all of the taxes levied and collected upon the taxable property in the district shall be paid to the respective affected taxing entities. When the district ceases to exist pursuant to the adopted infrastructure financing plan, all moneys thereafter received from taxes upon the taxable property in the district shall be paid to the respective affected taxing entities as taxes on all other property are paid.

SEC. 2.

 Section 53396.1 is added to the Government Code, to read:

53396.1.
 Taxes authorized to be divided and allocated pursuant to Section 53396 shall not include taxes levied upon any of the following:
(a) A parcel of land enrolled in a Williamson Act contract.
(b) A parcel of land enrolled in a farmland security zone contract, pursuant to Article 7 (commencing with Section 51296) of Chapter 7.
(c) A parcel of land subject to a Williamson Act contract or a farmland security zone contract that has been canceled or nonrenewed, until the next equalized assessment roll made after both of the following:
(1) Cancellation or nonrenewal of the Williamson Act contract or the farmland security zone contract.
(2) Rezoning of the parcel for residential, commercial, industrial, or other uses.