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+---
+type: "Bill"
+title: "Housing development: density bonuses."
+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, as defined, within the city or county with a density bonus, other incentives or concessions, and waivers or reductions of development standards, as specified, if the developer agrees to construct specified units and meets other requirements."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
+legislature: "California Legislature"
+session: "20252026"
+identifier: "SB 92"
+citation: "California SB 92 (20252026)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["Housingdevelopment", "densitybonuses"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Blakespear"]
+version_count: 8
+action_count: 30
+vote_count: 7
+first_action: "2025-01-22"
+last_action: "2025-10-10"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/19925335-6138-47b2-8cdc-382155671ddf"
+source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260SB92"
+source_hash: "b079cd6da0cdfd33dd117ee3cf2865d2e51a21754fe8a865f14fd1ee7576d45f"
+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 92 (20252026) — Housing development: density bonuses.
+
+Existing law, commonly referred to as the Density Bonus Law, requires a city or county to provide a developer that proposes a housing development, as defined, within the city or county with a density bonus, other incentives or concessions, and waivers or reductions of development standards, as specified, if the developer agrees to construct specified units and meets other requirements.
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **01/22/25 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260SB92&version=20250SB9299INT)
+2. **03/10/25 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260SB92&version=20250SB9298AMD)
+3. **05/05/25 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260SB92&version=20250SB9297AMD)
+4. **06/23/25 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260SB92&version=20250SB9296AMD)
+5. **07/07/25 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260SB92&version=20250SB9295AMD)
+6. **10/10/25 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260SB92&version=20250SB9293CHP)
+7. **SB92** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260SB92)
+8. **09/13/25 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260SB92&version=20250SB9294ENR)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Do pass. — **10–0** (pass) · lower
+- Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Local Government] — **9–1** (pass) · upper
+- Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on [Local Government] — **12–0** (pass) · lower
+- Unfinished Business SB92 Blakespear et al. Concurrence — **39–0** (pass) · upper
+- 3rd Reading SB92 Blakespear et al. — **31–3** (pass) · upper
+- Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **6–0** (pass) · upper
+- SB 92 Blakespear Senate Third Reading By Ward — **75–0** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Blakespear — primary (person)
+- Quirk-Silva — coauthor (person)
+- Ward — coauthor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2025-01-22** Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. `introduction, reading-1`
+- **2025-01-23** From printer. May be acted upon on or after February 22.
+- **2025-01-29** Referred to Coms. on HOUSING and L. GOV. `referral-committee`
+- **2025-03-06** Set for hearing March 18.
+- **2025-03-10** 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`
+- **2025-03-18** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on L. GOV. (Ayes 9. Noes 1. Page 411.) (March 18). Re-referred to Com. on L. GOV. `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
+- **2025-03-24** Set for hearing April 23.
+- **2025-04-23** April 23 set for first hearing canceled at the request of author.
+- **2025-04-24** Set for hearing April 30.
+- **2025-05-01** From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 6. Noes 0. Page 967.) (April 30). `amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2025-05-05** Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee`
+- **2025-05-09** Set for hearing May 19.
+- **2025-05-13** May 19 hearing postponed by committee.
+- **2025-05-13** Withdrawn from committee.
+- **2025-05-13** Ordered to second reading.
+- **2025-05-14** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
+- **2025-05-28** Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 31. Noes 3. Page 1296.) Ordered to the Assembly. `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
+- **2025-05-28** In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. `reading-1`
+- **2025-06-05** Referred to Coms. on H. & C.D. and L. GOV. `referral-committee`
+- **2025-06-23** From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on H. & C.D. `amendment-passage, committee-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee`
+- **2025-07-03** From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on L. GOV. (Ayes 12. Noes 0.) (July 2). `amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2025-07-07** Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on L. GOV. `amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee`
+- **2025-07-17** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 10. Noes 0.) (July 16). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2025-08-18** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
+- **2025-09-03** Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 75. Noes 0. Page 2863.) Ordered to the Senate. `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
+- **2025-09-03** In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
+- **2025-09-11** Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 39. Noes 0. Page 2889.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling. `amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2025-09-22** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 11 a.m.
+- **2025-10-10** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
+- **2025-10-10** Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 484, 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/19925335-6138-47b2-8cdc-382155671ddf`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).
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