---
type: "Bill"
title: "Housing development projects: objective standards: affordability and site criteria."
description: "(1) Existing law, the Middle Class Housing Act of 2022, provides that a housing development project is an allowable use on a parcel that is within a zone where office, retail, or parking is a principally permitted use, if the proposed development complies with specified requirements. Under that act, one of those requirements is that the project site is 20 acres or less."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20232024"
identifier: "AB 2243"
citation: "California AB 2243 (20232024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Housing development projects", "affordability and site criteria", "objective standards"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Wicks"]
version_count: 12
action_count: 38
vote_count: 11
first_action: "2024-02-08"
last_action: "2024-09-19"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/41a18d14-097e-4077-97a9-57ae4a2ee003"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB2243"
source_hash: "5d8c3cabcf729a398dc0630bacf033c29c34288141a4d86a7507ec2f1097af58"
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 2243 (20232024) — Housing development projects: objective standards: affordability and site criteria.

(1) Existing law, the Middle Class Housing Act of 2022, provides that a housing development project is an allowable use on a parcel that is within a zone where office, retail, or parking is a principally permitted use, if the proposed development complies with specified requirements. Under that act, one of those requirements is that the project site is 20 acres or less.

## Version chain

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

1. **02/08/24 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB2243&version=20230AB224399INT)
2. **03/19/24 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB2243&version=20230AB224398AMD)
3. **04/18/24 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB2243&version=20230AB224397AMD)
4. **06/04/24 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB2243&version=20230AB224396AMD)
5. **06/20/24 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB2243&version=20230AB224395AMD)
6. **07/03/24 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB2243&version=20230AB224394AMD)
7. **08/05/24 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB2243&version=20230AB224393AMD)
8. **08/21/24 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB2243&version=20230AB224392AMD)
9. **08/27/24 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB2243&version=20230AB224391AMD)
10. **09/19/24 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB2243&version=20230AB224389CHP)
11. **AB2243** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB2243)
12. **09/05/24 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB2243&version=20230AB224390ENR)

## Votes

- Do pass. To Consent Calendar. — **15–0** (pass) · lower
- Placed on suspense file — **7–0** (pass) · upper
- AB 2243 Wicks Concurrence in Senate Amendments — **69–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **8–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass — **5–1** (pass) · upper
- Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **5–1** (pass) · upper
- That the measure be returned to Senate Floor for consideration. Ordered to third reading. — **8–0** (pass) · upper
- 3rd Reading — **28–0** (pass) · upper
- Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Local Government] — **8–0** (pass) · upper
- AB 2243 Wicks Consent Calendar Second Day — **71–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Local Government] — **9–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Wicks — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-02-08** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
- **2024-02-09** From printer. May be heard in committee March 10.
- **2024-03-18** Referred to Coms. on H. & C.D. and L. GOV. `referral-committee`
- **2024-03-19** 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`
- **2024-03-20** Re-referred to Com. on H. & C.D. `referral-committee`
- **2024-04-17** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on L. GOV. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.) (April 17). Re-referred to Com. on L. GOV. `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
- **2024-04-18** 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`
- **2024-04-22** Re-referred to Com. on L. GOV. `referral-committee`
- **2024-04-25** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 8. Noes 0.) (April 24). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
- **2024-05-08** From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 15. Noes 0.) (May 8). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-05-09** Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2024-05-16** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 71. Noes 0.) `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2024-05-16** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2024-05-29** Referred to Coms. on HOUSING and L. GOV. `referral-committee`
- **2024-06-04** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on HOUSING. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2024-06-19** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on L. GOV. (Ayes 8. Noes 0.) (June 18). `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2024-06-20** Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on L. GOV. `amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2024-07-03** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 5. Noes 1.) (July 3). `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2024-07-03** Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2024-07-29** In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
- **2024-08-05** 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`
- **2024-08-12** In committee: Referred to APPR suspense file. `referral-committee`
- **2024-08-15** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 5. Noes 1.) (August 15). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-08-19** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2024-08-21** Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. `amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2024-08-22** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2024-08-27** Joint Rule 61 suspended. (Ayes 31. Noes 9.)
- **2024-08-27** Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. `amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2024-08-28** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2024-08-28** Re-referred to Com. on RLS pursuant to Senate Rule 29.10(b). `referral-committee`
- **2024-08-28** From committee: Be re-referred to Com. on HOUSING pursuant to Senate Rule 29.10(b). (Ayes 5. Noes 0.) Re-referred to Com. on HOUSING. `committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2024-08-29** From committee: That the measure be returned to Senate Floor for consideration. (Ayes 8. Noes 0.) (August 29) `committee-passage`
- **2024-08-31** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 28. Noes 0.). `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2024-08-31** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending.
- **2024-08-31** Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 69. Noes 0.). `amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-09-12** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.
- **2024-09-19** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2024-09-19** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 272, 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/41a18d14-097e-4077-97a9-57ae4a2ee003`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).