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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Adaptive reuse: streamlining: incentives."
+description: "(1) Existing law, the Planning and Zoning Law, requires each county and city to adopt a comprehensive, long-term general plan for its physical development, and the development of certain lands outside its boundaries, that includes, among other mandatory elements, a housing element. That law allows a development proponent to submit an application for a development that is subject to a specified streamlined, ministerial approval process not subject to a conditional use permit, if the development satisfies certain objective planning standards, including that the development is a multifamily housing development that contains two or more residential units."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
+legislature: "California Legislature"
+session: "20252026"
+identifier: "AB 507"
+citation: "California AB 507 (20252026)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["Adaptivereuse", "incentives", "streamlining"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Haney"]
+version_count: 7
+action_count: 28
+vote_count: 10
+first_action: "2025-02-10"
+last_action: "2025-10-10"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/0b3758b8-abf3-4c6e-a763-1865e4979ae0"
+source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB507"
+source_hash: "234f06bac27f8b24217cb229de0f255243cd1760ce847ace9af7315af0b7e5df"
+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 507 (20252026) — Adaptive reuse: streamlining: incentives.
+
+(1) Existing law, the Planning and Zoning Law, requires each county and city to adopt a comprehensive, long-term general plan for its physical development, and the development of certain lands outside its boundaries, that includes, among other mandatory elements, a housing element. That law allows a development proponent to submit an application for a development that is subject to a specified streamlined, ministerial approval process not subject to a conditional use permit, if the development satisfies certain objective planning standards, including that the development is a multifamily housing development that contains two or more residential units.
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **02/10/25 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB507&version=20250AB50799INT)
+2. **07/03/25 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB507&version=20250AB50798AMD)
+3. **08/29/25 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB507&version=20250AB50797AMD)
+4. **09/05/25 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB507&version=20250AB50796AMD)
+5. **10/10/25 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB507&version=20250AB50794CHP)
+6. **AB507** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB507)
+7. **09/15/25 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB507&version=20250AB50795ENR)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **8–2** (pass) · upper
+- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **9–0** (pass) · lower
+- Do pass. — **10–0** (pass) · lower
+- AB 507 Haney Assembly Third Reading — **64–1** (pass) · lower
+- Placed on suspense file — **7–0** (pass) · upper
+- Do pass as amended — **6–1** (pass) · upper
+- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Local Government] — **10–0** (pass) · lower
+- AB 507 Haney Concurrence in Senate Amendments — **70–4** (pass) · lower
+- 3rd Reading AB507 Haney et al. By Wiener — **30–9** (pass) · upper
+- Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Housing] — **5–2** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Haney — primary (person)
+- Mark González — principal coauthor (person)
+- Stefani — coauthor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2025-02-10** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
+- **2025-02-11** From printer. May be heard in committee March 13.
+- **2025-02-24** Referred to Coms. on H. & C.D. and L. GOV. `referral-committee`
+- **2025-04-24** Assembly Rule 56 suspended. (Page 1265.)
+- **2025-04-24** (Pending re-refer to Com. on L. GOV.)
+- **2025-04-28** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on L. GOV. (Ayes 10. Noes 0.) (April 24). Re-referred to Com. on L. GOV. `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
+- **2025-05-01** Coauthors revised.
+- **2025-05-01** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.) (April 30). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
+- **2025-05-14** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 10. Noes 0.) (May 14). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2025-05-15** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
+- **2025-05-23** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 64. Noes 1. Page 1651.) `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
+- **2025-05-23** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
+- **2025-06-04** Referred to Coms. on L. GOV. and HOUSING. `referral-committee`
+- **2025-07-02** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on HOUSING. (Ayes 5. Noes 2.) (July 2). `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage, referral-committee`
+- **2025-07-03** Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on HOUSING. `amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee`
+- **2025-07-16** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 8. Noes 2.) (July 15). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
+- **2025-08-18** In committee: Referred to suspense file. `referral-committee`
+- **2025-08-29** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 6. Noes 1.) (August 29). `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage`
+- **2025-08-29** Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading. `amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2`
+- **2025-09-02** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
+- **2025-09-05** Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. `amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-3`
+- **2025-09-08** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
+- **2025-09-10** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 30. Noes 9. Page 2816.). `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
+- **2025-09-10** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending.
+- **2025-09-11** Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 70. Noes 4. Page 3293.). `amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2025-09-23** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.
+- **2025-10-10** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
+- **2025-10-10** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 493, Statutes of 2025. `became-law`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/0b3758b8-abf3-4c6e-a763-1865e4979ae0`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).
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