California homeowners are provided assistance through a $7,000 exemption from property tax. Tax relief also is provided to individuals who agreed to hold their land as open space under the Williamson Act of 1965. This budget provides payments to cities and counties to help defray revenues lost as a result of these two tax relief programs. This budget also receives repayments from persons who participated in the Senior Citizens' Property Tax Postponement Program, which was suspended in 2009-10.