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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Density Bonus Law: purchase of density bonus units by nonprofit housing organizations."
+description: "Existing law, commonly referred to as the Density Bonus Law, requires a city or county to provide a developer that proposes a housing development within the city or county with a density bonus and other incentives or concessions, as specified, if the developer agrees to construct, among other options, specified percentages of units for moderate-income or, lower, or very low income households and meets other requirements. Existing law requires the developer and the city or county to ensure that the initial occupant of a for-sale unit that qualified the developer for the award of the density bonus is a person or family of very low, low, or moderate income."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
+legislature: "California Legislature"
+session: "20212022"
+identifier: "SB 728"
+citation: "California SB 728 (20212022)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["Density Bonus Law: purchase of density bonus units by nonprofit housing organizations."]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Hertzberg"]
+version_count: 8
+action_count: 37
+vote_count: 9
+first_action: "2021-02-19"
+last_action: "2021-09-28"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/b104508d-10e9-452a-a10c-50f30e7e4fc0"
+source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB728"
+source_hash: "5e7de18eb28355736ea127a7992f693f53f0ef23ae6a147b52d0bc92def673c5"
+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 SB 728 (20212022) — Density Bonus Law: purchase of density bonus units by nonprofit housing organizations.
+
+Existing law, commonly referred to as the Density Bonus Law, requires a city or county to provide a developer that proposes a housing development within the city or county with a density bonus and other incentives or concessions, as specified, if the developer agrees to construct, among other options, specified percentages of units for moderate-income or, lower, or very low income households and meets other requirements. Existing law requires the developer and the city or county to ensure that the initial occupant of a for-sale unit that qualified the developer for the award of the density bonus is a person or family of very low, low, or moderate income.
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **02/19/21 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB728&version=20210SB72899INT)
+2. **03/10/21 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB728&version=20210SB72898AMD)
+3. **04/15/21 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB728&version=20210SB72897AMD)
+4. **08/26/21 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB728&version=20210SB72896AMD)
+5. **09/02/21 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB728&version=20210SB72895AMD)
+6. **09/28/21 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB728&version=20210SB72893CHP)
+7. **SB728** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB728)
+8. **09/10/21 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB728&version=20210SB72894ENR)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Placed on suspense file — **7–0** (pass) · upper
+- Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with the recommendation: To Consent Calendar — **9–0** (pass) · upper
+- Do pass. To Consent Calendar. — **13–0** (pass) · lower
+- Special Consent SB728 — **39–0** (pass) · upper
+- Unfinished Business SB728 Hertzberg Concurrence — **38–0** (pass) · upper
+- Do pass — **7–0** (pass) · upper
+- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Local Government] — **8–0** (pass) · lower
+- SB 728 Hertzberg Senate Third Reading By Robert Rivas — **72–0** (pass) · lower
+- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **8–0** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Hertzberg — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2021-02-19** Introduced. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. `introduction`
+- **2021-02-22** From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 24.
+- **2021-02-22** Read first time. `reading-1`
+- **2021-02-22** Art. IV. Sec. 8(a) of the Constitution dispensed with.
+- **2021-02-22** (Ayes 32. Noes 4.)
+- **2021-02-22** Joint Rule 55 suspended. (Ayes 32. Noes 4. Page 272.)
+- **2021-03-03** Referred to Com. on RLS. `referral-committee`
+- **2021-03-10** From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on RLS. `amendment-passage, committee-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee`
+- **2021-03-18** Re-referred to Com. on HOUSING. `referral-committee`
+- **2021-03-26** Set for hearing April 29.
+- **2021-04-15** From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on HOUSING. `amendment-passage, committee-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee`
+- **2021-04-29** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR with recommendation: To consent calendar. (Ayes 9. Noes 0. Page 987.) (April 29). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
+- **2021-05-04** Set for hearing May 10.
+- **2021-05-10** May 10 hearing: Placed on APPR suspense file.
+- **2021-05-14** Set for hearing May 20.
+- **2021-05-20** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 7. Noes 0. Page 1202.) (May 20). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2021-05-20** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
+- **2021-05-24** Ordered to special consent calendar.
+- **2021-06-01** Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 39. Noes 0. Page 1347.) Ordered to the Assembly. `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
+- **2021-06-02** In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. `reading-1`
+- **2021-06-10** Referred to Coms. on H. & C.D. and L. GOV. `referral-committee`
+- **2021-06-23** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on L. GOV. (Ayes 8. Noes 0.) (June 22). Re-referred to Com. on L. GOV. `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
+- **2021-07-01** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 8. Noes 0.) (June 30). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
+- **2021-07-14** From committee: Do pass. Ordered to consent calendar. (Ayes 13. Noes 0.) (July 14). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2021-07-15** Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar. `reading-1, reading-2`
+- **2021-08-19** From consent calendar on motion of Assembly Member Reyes.
+- **2021-08-19** Ordered to third reading.
+- **2021-08-26** Read third time and amended. `amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-3`
+- **2021-08-26** Ordered to third reading.
+- **2021-09-02** Read third time and amended. `amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-3`
+- **2021-09-02** Ordered to third reading.
+- **2021-09-07** Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 72. Noes 0. Page 2814.) Ordered to the Senate. `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
+- **2021-09-07** In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
+- **2021-09-08** Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 38. Noes 0. Page 2525.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling. `amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2021-09-13** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3:30 p.m.
+- **2021-09-28** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
+- **2021-09-28** Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 365, Statutes of 2021. `became-law`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/b104508d-10e9-452a-a10c-50f30e7e4fc0`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).
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