--- type: "Bill" title: "Regional housing needs: regional transportation plan." description: "(1) Existing law, the Planning and Zoning Law, requires each county and city to adopt a comprehensive, long-term general plan for the physical development of the county or city, and specified land outside its boundaries. Existing law requires the general plan to include, among other mandatory elements, a housing element, and requires the housing element to include, among other things, an inventory of land suitable and available for residential development." jurisdiction: "us/states/ca" legislature: "California Legislature" session: "20252026" identifier: "AB 1275" citation: "California AB 1275 (20252026)" classification: ["bill"] subjects: ["Regionalhousingneeds", "regionaltransportationplan"] status: "enacted" primary_sponsors: ["Elhawary"] version_count: 8 action_count: 31 vote_count: 7 first_action: "2025-02-21" last_action: "2025-10-10" source: "openstates" source_identifier: "ocd-bill/8a147107-af15-4e87-ab09-288837d4a76e" source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB1275" source_hash: "6db679d778c1e72d4817a19fca4290a4296325fe35e8c529a43650dcef99b15f" 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 1275 (20252026) — Regional housing needs: regional transportation plan. (1) Existing law, the Planning and Zoning Law, requires each county and city to adopt a comprehensive, long-term general plan for the physical development of the county or city, and specified land outside its boundaries. Existing law requires the general plan to include, among other mandatory elements, a housing element, and requires the housing element to include, among other things, an inventory of land suitable and available for residential development. ## Version chain The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment. 1. **02/21/25 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB1275&version=20250AB127599INT) 2. **03/24/25 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB1275&version=20250AB127598AMD) 3. **04/24/25 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB1275&version=20250AB127597AMD) 4. **09/04/25 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB1275&version=20250AB127596AMD) 5. **09/05/25 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB1275&version=20250AB127595AMD) 6. **10/10/25 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB1275&version=20250AB127593CHP) 7. **AB1275** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB1275) 8. **09/12/25 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB1275&version=20250AB127594ENR) ## Votes - 3rd Reading AB1275 Elhawary By Durazo — **40–0** (pass) · upper - Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Local Government] with recommendation: To Consent Calendar — **11–0** (pass) · lower - Do pass. To Consent Calendar. — **15–0** (pass) · lower - AB 1275 Elhawary Concurrence in Senate Amendments — **79–0** (pass) · lower - Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with recommendation: To Consent Calendar — **10–0** (pass) · lower - Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with the recommendation: To Consent Calendar — **11–0** (pass) · upper - AB 1275 Elhawary Consent Calendar Second Day — **71–0** (pass) · lower ## Sponsors - Elhawary — primary (person) ## Timeline The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote. - **2025-02-21** Introduced. To print. `introduction` - **2025-02-22** From printer. May be heard in committee March 24. - **2025-02-24** Read first time. `reading-1` - **2025-03-24** Referred to Coms. on H. & C.D. and L. GOV. `referral-committee` - **2025-03-24** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on H. & C.D. Read second time and amended. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2` - **2025-03-25** Re-referred to Com. on H. & C.D. `referral-committee` - **2025-04-24** Assembly Rule 56 suspended. (Page 1265.) - **2025-04-24** (Pending re-refer to Com. on L. GOV.) - **2025-04-24** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on L. GOV. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 11. Noes 0.) (April 24). Re-referred to Com. on L. GOV. `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee` - **2025-04-24** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on L. GOV. Read second time and amended. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2` - **2025-04-28** Re-referred to Com. on L. GOV. `referral-committee` - **2025-05-01** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 10. Noes 0.) (April 30). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee` - **2025-05-14** From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 15. Noes 0.) (May 14). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable` - **2025-05-15** Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. `reading-1, reading-2` - **2025-05-23** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 71. Noes 0. Page 1664.) `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 Com. on HOUSING. `referral-committee` - **2025-07-02** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 11. Noes 0.) (July 1). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee` - **2025-07-14** From committee: Be ordered to second reading file pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8 and ordered to Consent Calendar. `committee-passage, reading-2` - **2025-07-15** Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. `reading-1, reading-2` - **2025-07-17** From Consent Calendar. - **2025-07-17** Ordered to third reading. - **2025-09-04** Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. `amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-3` - **2025-09-05** Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading. `amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2` - **2025-09-08** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2` - **2025-09-09** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 40. Noes 0. Page 2727.). `passage, reading-1, reading-3` - **2025-09-09** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. - **2025-09-10** Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 79. Noes 0. Page 3203.). `amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable` - **2025-09-22** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m. - **2025-10-10** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature` - **2025-10-10** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 593, 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/8a147107-af15-4e87-ab09-288837d4a76e`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).