---
type: "Bill"
title: "Housing elements: prohousing local policies."
description: "The Planning and Zoning Law requires a city or county to adopt a general plan for land use development within its boundaries that includes, among other things, a housing element. That law requires the Department of Housing and Community Development to determine whether the housing element is in substantial compliance with specified provisions of that law."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20212022"
identifier: "AB 1029"
citation: "California AB 1029 (20212022)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Housing elements: prohousing local policies."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Mullin"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 21
vote_count: 7
first_action: "2021-02-18"
last_action: "2021-09-28"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/d1169bdb-027b-43f2-ad23-8e8fb95a058d"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB1029"
source_hash: "45a330252416fb2f5eb97be9bd873503706c30b61a22a05e7b8786cebfc2bc9a"
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 1029 (20212022) — Housing elements: prohousing local policies.

The Planning and Zoning Law requires a city or county to adopt a general plan for land use development within its boundaries that includes, among other things, a housing element. That law requires the Department of Housing and Community Development to determine whether the housing element is in substantial compliance with specified provisions of that law.

## Version chain

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

1. **02/18/21 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB1029&version=20210AB102999INT)
2. **07/09/21 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB1029&version=20210AB102998AMD)
3. **09/28/21 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB1029&version=20210AB102996CHP)
4. **AB1029** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB1029)
5. **09/07/21 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB1029&version=20210AB102997ENR)

## Votes

- AB 1029 Mullin Concurrence in Senate Amendments — **59–17** (pass) · lower
- Do pass. — **12–4** (pass) · lower
- 3rd Reading AB1029 Mullin et al. By Becker Urgency Clause — **27–9** (pass) · upper
- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Local Government] — **6–1** (pass) · lower
- AB 1029 Mullin Third Reading Urgency — **61–16** (pass) · lower
- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **6–2** (pass) · lower
- Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **7–1** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Mullin — primary (person)
- Becker — coauthor (person)
- Caballero — principal coauthor (person)
- Gabriel — coauthor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-02-18** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
- **2021-02-19** From printer. May be heard in committee March 21.
- **2021-03-04** Referred to Coms. on H. & C.D. and L. GOV. `referral-committee`
- **2021-04-16** Coauthors revised.
- **2021-04-19** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on L. GOV. (Ayes 6. Noes 1.) (April 15). Re-referred to Com. on L. GOV. `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
- **2021-04-29** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 6. Noes 2.) (April 28). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
- **2021-05-12** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 12. Noes 4.) (May 12). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-05-13** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2021-06-02** Read third time. Urgency clause adopted. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 61. Noes 16. Page 1837.). `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2021-06-03** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2021-06-16** Referred to Com. on HOUSING. `referral-committee`
- **2021-07-01** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 7. Noes 1.) (July 1). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
- **2021-07-09** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on APPR. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2021-07-15** From committee: Be ordered to second reading pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8. `committee-passage, reading-2`
- **2021-08-16** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2021-08-26** Read third time. Urgency clause adopted. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 27. Noes 9. Page 2118.). `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2021-08-26** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after August 28 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
- **2021-09-02** Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 59. Noes 17. Page 2725.). `amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-09-10** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.
- **2021-09-28** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2021-09-28** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 353, 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/d1169bdb-027b-43f2-ad23-8e8fb95a058d`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).