Prop 19 Filing Guide for Yolo County

To claim a Proposition 19 benefit on a Yolo County property, you file with the Yolo County Assessor at 625 Court Street, Room 104, Woodland, CA 95695-3490. Yolo is one of the few counties in the region with a single clean Proposition 19 page rather than rules scattered across a dozen topic pages.

Use BOE-19-B to carry your tax base to a replacement home if you are 55 or older. Use BOE-19-P or BOE-19-G plus BOE-266 for an inherited family home.

Yolo publishes no general assessor email, no dedicated Proposition 19 or exemptions line, no stated Proposition 19 filing methods, and no Proposition 19 claim fee. Call the main number and ask.

Which Form Do You File?

Proposition 19 provides two benefits, and Yolo posts the full set of seven forms.

You are moving to a new home. File BOE-19-B if you are 55 or older, BOE-19-D with BOE-19-DC if you are severely and permanently disabled, or BOE-19-V if a wildfire or Governor-declared disaster destroyed your home.

You inherited a home. File BOE-19-P for a parent-to-child transfer or BOE-19-G for a grandparent-to-grandchild transfer, plus BOE-266. BOE-19-C certifies a base year value moving between counties.

All seven route through the statewide capropeforms service from the Yolo County assessor forms page. Yolo posts BOE-266 in English and Spanish.

One Office for the Assessor, the Recorder and Elections

Yolo runs one department, the ACE Department, covering the Assessor, the Clerk-Recorder and Elections, with Jesse Salinas over all three.

That helps in one practical way. The deed recording and the assessment claim go to the same department at the same Court Street address.

It does not help in the way people assume. Recording a deed is not filing a Proposition 19 claim. The claim is a separate filing that nobody makes for you.

Get There Before 4:00

The assessor counter closes at 4:00 p.m., an hour before the Clerk of the Board two floors up in Room 204, which stays open to 5:00 p.m.

Plan a one-trip Woodland errand around that. Filing a claim and an appeal the same day, hit the assessor first and the Clerk second. Reverse the order and you will find the assessor counter dark at 4:30. It does stay open through the lunch hour, so a midday arrival works.

If you live in West Sacramento or Clarksburg, call 916-375-6496 instead. That second line saves the third of the county sitting across the causeway from Sacramento a toll call into Woodland.

If You Are Moving Into Yolo County

A base year value transfer is filed with the assessor of the county where your replacement home sits. Inbound movers get that rule backwards constantly.

Suppose you sell in Alameda, Contra Costa, Santa Clara or Sacramento County and buy in Davis, Woodland, West Sacramento or Winters. You file BOE-19-B with Yolo County, not with the county you left. That county’s only role is certifying the base year value you carry, on BOE-19-C.

A seller who spent thirty years with one assessor assumes that office still handles the transfer. Yolo does.

The Deadlines That Decide the Outcome

One year, for an inherited home. Occupy it as your principal residence and file BOE-266 within one year of the transfer.

Three years, for the exclusion claim. File BOE-19-P or BOE-19-G within three years of the transfer, or before the home leaves the family, whichever comes first.

Three years, for a base year value transfer. File BOE-19-B within three years of buying or completing the replacement home.

Two years, for the move. Buy and sell within two years of each other, in either order.

Six months, if a notice arrives. A claim filed within six months of a supplemental or escape notice still counts as timely.

Sixty days, before the fee starts. Yolo charges a $175 late-filing fee for an intergenerational exclusion claim filed more than sixty days after the second notice of potential eligibility. Watch for that second notice and act on it.

If You Are Dealing With an Older Transfer

Yolo’s Change of Ownership page still carries Propositions 58 and 193 beside Proposition 19, with both form sets posted.

That matters for anyone settling an estate that has been sitting. A transfer dated before February 16, 2021 runs under the old rules and the old forms. One dated on or after February 16, 2021 runs under Proposition 19. Check the date first.

If the Value Looks Too High

Yolo takes regular appeals from July 2 through November 30, extended to the following Monday at 5:00 p.m. when November 30 lands on a weekend. Supplemental, escape and roll change appeals are due within 60 days.

An application costs $45, plus $2.00 to file online, non-refundable whether you win or lose. Applicants on public assistance may request a waiver.

The county runs an online appeal filing portal, but refuses faxed and scanned applications, so paper comes by mail or in person to the Clerk of the Board, Room 204, 530-666-8195. Bring seven copies of your evidence. Hearings run three to nine months out.

Do not assume there is a free track. The Proposition 8 informal review has no separate deadline and no form of its own, and the page routes filers to the paid formal appeal.

An appeal is not a Proposition 19 claim. File the claim regardless.

A Worked Example

A parent dies owning a home in Davis. The factored base year value is $165,000. The market value on the date of death is $780,000. A son inherits it and moves in within four months.

The value limit is $165,000 plus $1,044,586, which is $1,209,586. The home sits well below that, so nothing is reassessed.

• Taxable value with the exclusion: $165,000, or roughly $1,650 a year at one percent.
• Without it: $780,000, or roughly $7,800 a year.

The exclusion is worth about $6,150 every year, and the gap widens as the alternative base grows two percent annually. Over a decade that is roughly $66,000.

It rests on two acts inside twelve months: moving in, and filing the homeowners’ exemption. The claim then follows within three years.

Mistakes That Cost Yolo Families the Exclusion

Arriving at 4:15. The assessor counter closes at 4:00 p.m., an hour before the Clerk of the Board.

Faxing an appeal. Yolo refuses faxed and scanned appeal applications.

Assuming the informal review is a free separate track. It has no deadline and no form of its own, and the county routes filers to the $45 appeal.

Waiting for probate. The twelve-month clock to move in and file BOE-266 does not pause.

Assuming a rental qualifies. Proposition 19 covers a family home the heir occupies, and a family farm. Nothing else.

Missing the sixty-day window after the second notice. A late intergenerational claim costs an extra $175.

Summary

• File Proposition 19 claims with the Yolo County Assessor at 625 Court Street, Room 104, Woodland.
• Yolo publishes a single Proposition 19 page and posts all seven forms through capropeforms.
• The assessor counter closes at 4:00 p.m., an hour before the Clerk of the Board, and stays open through lunch.
• West Sacramento and Clarksburg residents reach the office locally at 916-375-6496.
• An inbound mover files BOE-19-B with Yolo, because the claim goes to the county holding the replacement home.
• An heir has one year to move in and file BOE-266, then three years for the exclusion claim.
• Appeals run July 2 through November 30 and cost $45, plus $2.00 to file online.

Get Your Yolo County Filing Right

Talk to Bart. Bart Hubbard works with buyers and sellers throughout the Yolo County area, and he can tell you what to file, when, and what a property will cost you to hold. Reach out at Prop19Hero.com.

Read the book. Prop 19 Hero covers the filing process, the deadlines, and the traps that void the exclusion before the arithmetic ever matters. Find it on Amazon.