---
type: "Bill"
title: "Local government: housing elements."
description: "Local government: housing elements."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "19992000"
identifier: "AB 1744"
citation: "California AB 1744 (19992000)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Local government: housing elements."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Longville"]
version_count: 7
action_count: 19
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2000-01-11"
last_action: "2000-07-10"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/513b6db3-8862-4916-a967-c60607adb618"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=199920000AB1744"
source_hash: "23dffabf13862600d26236d1a0527900ee4f6f42cc63e985f826ca23fb6f805a"
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 1744 (19992000) — Local government: housing elements.

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **01/11/00 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=199920000AB1744&version=19990AB174499INT)
2. **03/27/00 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=199920000AB1744&version=19990AB174498AMD)
3. **04/24/00 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=199920000AB1744&version=19990AB174497AMD)
4. **04/27/00 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=199920000AB1744&version=19990AB174496AMD)
5. **07/10/00 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=199920000AB1744&version=19990AB174494CHP)
6. **AB1744** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=199920000AB1744)
7. **06/29/00 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=199920000AB1744&version=19990AB174495ENR)

## Votes

- Consent Calendar 2nd AB1744 Longville — **pass** (pass) · upper
- Do pass and be placed on the Consent Calendar. — **pass** (pass) · legislature
- AB 1744 LONGVILLE 3RD READING URGENCY W/O REFERENCE TO FILE — **pass** (pass) · lower
- Do pass, to Consent Calendar. — **pass** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Longville — primary (person)
- Calderon — principal coauthor (person)

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **2000-07-10** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 117, Statutes of 2000.
- **2000-07-07** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2000-07-06** Enrolled and to the Governor at 4 p.m.
- **2000-06-29** Read third time. Urgency clause adopted. Passed and to Assembly. (Ayes 37. Noes 0. Page 5373.) `passage, reading-3, reading-1`
- **2000-06-21** Read second time. To Consent Calendar. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2000-06-20** From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2000-06-05** In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
- **2000-05-09** Referred to Standing Committee on Housing and Community Development. `referral-committee`
- **2000-05-01** In Senate. Read first time. To Standing Committee on Rules for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2000-04-27** Read third time, amended, and returned to third reading. Read third time. Urgency clause adopted. Passed and to Senate. (Ayes 70. Noes 1. Page 6027.) `amendment-passage, reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2000-04-24** From Consent Calendar. To third reading. Read third time, amended, and returned to third reading. `reading-3, amendment-passage, reading-1`
- **2000-04-10** Read second time. To Consent Calendar. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2000-04-06** From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (April 5). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2000-03-28** Re-referred to Standing Committee on Local Government. `referral-committee`
- **2000-03-27** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Standing Committee on Local Government Read second time and amended. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2000-03-27** In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
- **2000-01-20** Referred to Standing Committee on Local Government and Standing Committee on Housing and Community Development. `referral-committee`
- **2000-01-12** From printer. May be heard in committee February 11.
- **2000-01-11** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/513b6db3-8862-4916-a967-c60607adb618`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).