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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Religious institution affiliated housing: place of worship."
+description: "Existing law prohibits a local agency from requiring the replacement of religious-use parking spaces, as defined, that a developer of a religious institution affiliated housing development project proposes to eliminate as part of that housing development project. Existing law prohibits the number of religious-use parking spaces requested to be eliminated from exceeding 50% of the number that are available at the time the request is made."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
+legislature: "California Legislature"
+session: "20212022"
+identifier: "AB 2244"
+citation: "California AB 2244 (20212022)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["Religious institution affiliated housing: place of worship."]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Wicks"]
+version_count: 5
+action_count: 18
+vote_count: 5
+first_action: "2022-02-16"
+last_action: "2022-07-19"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/27401247-816e-4f11-9e33-f7a3ad566b6f"
+source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB2244"
+source_hash: "0e63ef3484208552d7f6db7d0c65c42964aa2ec8b826b6d3df81d39415e60701"
+vintage: "2026-07-01"
+source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
+retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
+confidence: "reported"
+tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-ca"]
+---
+
+# California AB 2244 (20212022) — Religious institution affiliated housing: place of worship.
+
+Existing law prohibits a local agency from requiring the replacement of religious-use parking spaces, as defined, that a developer of a religious institution affiliated housing development project proposes to eliminate as part of that housing development project. Existing law prohibits the number of religious-use parking spaces requested to be eliminated from exceeding 50% of the number that are available at the time the request is made.
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **02/16/22 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB2244&version=20210AB224499INT)
+2. **03/24/22 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB2244&version=20210AB224498AMD)
+3. **07/19/22 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB2244&version=20210AB224496CHP)
+4. **AB2244** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB2244)
+5. **07/01/22 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB2244&version=20210AB224497ENR)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Consent Calendar — **37–0** (pass) · upper
+- AB 2244 Wicks Assembly Third Reading — **76–0** (pass) · lower
+- Do pass and be ordered to the Consent Calendar — **5–0** (pass) · upper
+- Do pass. — **7–0** (pass) · lower
+- Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on [Housing and Community Development] — **8–0** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Wicks — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2022-02-16** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
+- **2022-02-17** From printer. May be heard in committee March 19.
+- **2022-03-03** Referred to Coms. on L. GOV. and H. & C.D. `referral-committee`
+- **2022-03-23** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on H. & C.D. (Ayes 8. Noes 0.) (March 23). `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage, referral-committee`
+- **2022-03-24** Read second time and amended. `amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2`
+- **2022-03-28** Re-referred to Com. on H. & C.D. `referral-committee`
+- **2022-04-06** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (April 5). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2022-04-07** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
+- **2022-05-25** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 76. Noes 0. Page 5019.) `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
+- **2022-05-26** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
+- **2022-06-08** Referred to Com. on GOV. & F. `referral-committee`
+- **2022-06-22** From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 5. Noes 0.) (June 22). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2022-06-23** Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. `reading-1, reading-2`
+- **2022-06-30** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 37. Noes 0. Page 4573.). `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
+- **2022-06-30** In Assembly. Ordered to Engrossing and Enrolling. `committee-passage`
+- **2022-07-11** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 11:30 a.m.
+- **2022-07-19** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
+- **2022-07-19** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 122, Statutes of 2022. `became-law`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/27401247-816e-4f11-9e33-f7a3ad566b6f`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).
+