---
type: "Bill"
title: "Housing development projects: applications: fees and exactions."
description: "(1) Existing law requires a city or county to deem an applicant for a housing development project to have submitted a preliminary application upon providing specified information about the proposed project to the city or county from which approval for the project is being sought. Existing law requires a housing development project be subject only to the ordinances, policies, and standards adopted and in effect when the preliminary application was submitted."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20232024"
identifier: "AB 1820"
citation: "California AB 1820 (20232024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Housing development projects", "applications", "fees and exactions"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Schiavo"]
version_count: 10
action_count: 33
vote_count: 8
first_action: "2024-01-11"
last_action: "2024-09-22"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/c13d7c69-9a73-4e93-a21b-408b383652f9"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB1820"
source_hash: "4ce289cf1b041e423b697354cf4b7aa80433677879f846c066578c8f67756d44"
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 1820 (20232024) — Housing development projects: applications: fees and exactions.

(1) Existing law requires a city or county to deem an applicant for a housing development project to have submitted a preliminary application upon providing specified information about the proposed project to the city or county from which approval for the project is being sought. Existing law requires a housing development project be subject only to the ordinances, policies, and standards adopted and in effect when the preliminary application was submitted.

## Version chain

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

1. **01/11/24 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB1820&version=20230AB182099INT)
2. **02/20/24 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB1820&version=20230AB182098AMD)
3. **04/01/24 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB1820&version=20230AB182097AMD)
4. **04/15/24 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB1820&version=20230AB182096AMD)
5. **04/29/24 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB1820&version=20230AB182095AMD)
6. **06/05/24 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB1820&version=20230AB182094AMD)
7. **08/20/24 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB1820&version=20230AB182093AMD)
8. **09/22/24 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB1820&version=20230AB182091CHP)
9. **AB1820** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB1820)
10. **08/29/24 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB1820&version=20230AB182092ENR)

## Votes

- Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **8–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass. — **15–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **9–0** (pass) · upper
- Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on [Local Government] — **9–0** (pass) · lower
- AB 1820 Schiavo Concurrence in Senate Amendments — **76–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Housing] — **7–0** (pass) · upper
- 3rd Reading AB1820 Schiavo et al. By Blakespear — **40–0** (pass) · upper
- AB 1820 Schiavo Assembly Third Reading — **72–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Schiavo — primary (person)
- Grayson — coauthor (person)
- Joe Patterson — coauthor (person)
- Lee — coauthor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-01-11** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
- **2024-01-12** From printer. May be heard in committee February 11.
- **2024-01-29** Referred to Coms. on H. & C.D. and L. GOV. `referral-committee`
- **2024-02-20** 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`
- **2024-02-21** Re-referred to Com. on H. & C.D. `referral-committee`
- **2024-04-01** 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`
- **2024-04-02** Re-referred to Com. on H. & C.D. `referral-committee`
- **2024-04-04** Measure version as amended on April 1 corrected. `amendment-passage`
- **2024-04-11** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on L. GOV. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.) (April 10). `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2024-04-15** Read second time and amended. `amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2`
- **2024-04-16** Re-referred to Com. on L. GOV. `referral-committee`
- **2024-04-25** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 8. Noes 0.) (April 24). `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2024-04-29** Read second time and amended. `amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2`
- **2024-04-30** Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `referral-committee`
- **2024-05-15** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 15. Noes 0.) (May 15). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-05-16** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2024-05-21** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 72. Noes 0. Page 5350.) `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2024-05-22** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2024-05-29** Referred to Coms. on L. GOV. and HOUSING. `referral-committee`
- **2024-06-05** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on L. GOV. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2024-06-11** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on HOUSING. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (June 11). Re-referred to Com. on HOUSING. `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
- **2024-07-03** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.) (July 2). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
- **2024-08-05** From committee: Be ordered to second reading pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8. `committee-passage, reading-2`
- **2024-08-06** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2024-08-20** Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. `amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2024-08-21** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2024-08-26** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 40. Noes 0.). `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2024-08-26** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after August 28 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
- **2024-08-27** Assembly Rule 77 suspended.
- **2024-08-27** Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 76. Noes 0.). `amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-09-05** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.
- **2024-09-22** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2024-09-22** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 358, Statutes of 2024. `became-law`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/c13d7c69-9a73-4e93-a21b-408b383652f9`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).