--- type: "Bill" title: "Permit Streamlining Act: housing development projects: centralized application portal." description: "The Permit Streamlining Act requires a public agency that is the lead agency for a development project to approve or disapprove that project within specified time periods. Existing law requires a city or county that has an internet website to, among other things, make a fee estimate tool that the public can use to calculate an estimate of fees and exactions for a proposed housing development project available on its internet website." jurisdiction: "us/states/ca" legislature: "California Legislature" session: "20252026" identifier: "AB 920" citation: "California AB 920 (20252026)" classification: ["bill"] subjects: ["PermitStreamliningAct", "centralizedapplicationportal", "housingdevelopmentprojects"] status: "enacted" primary_sponsors: ["Caloza"] version_count: 7 action_count: 28 vote_count: 8 first_action: "2025-02-19" last_action: "2025-10-10" source: "openstates" source_identifier: "ocd-bill/45a750f1-349c-4d98-99c7-82e9fb8e972d" source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB920" source_hash: "6067f0a887f9718c45a25089b2ccd71b28a60000e7d7c6b2b3a4a42d906b9f02" 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 920 (20252026) — Permit Streamlining Act: housing development projects: centralized application portal. The Permit Streamlining Act requires a public agency that is the lead agency for a development project to approve or disapprove that project within specified time periods. Existing law requires a city or county that has an internet website to, among other things, make a fee estimate tool that the public can use to calculate an estimate of fees and exactions for a proposed housing development project available on its internet website. ## Version chain The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment. 1. **02/19/25 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB920&version=20250AB92099INT) 2. **03/24/25 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB920&version=20250AB92098AMD) 3. **04/24/25 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB920&version=20250AB92097AMD) 4. **07/07/25 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB920&version=20250AB92096AMD) 5. **10/10/25 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB920&version=20250AB92094CHP) 6. **AB920** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB920) 7. **09/02/25 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB920&version=20250AB92095ENR) ## Votes - Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with recommendation: To Consent Calendar — **10–0** (pass) · lower - Consent Calendar 2nd AB920 Caloza et al. — **37–0** (pass) · upper - Do pass. — **15–0** (pass) · lower - AB 920 Caloza Assembly Third Reading — **75–0** (pass) · lower - Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on [Housing and Community Development] — **10–0** (pass) · lower - Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with the recommendation: To Consent Calendar — **10–0** (pass) · upper - AB 920 Caloza Concurrence in Senate Amendments — **76–0** (pass) · lower - Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Housing] with the recommendation: To Consent Calendar — **7–0** (pass) · upper ## Sponsors - Caloza — primary (person) - Wicks — coauthor (person) ## Timeline The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote. - **2025-02-19** Read first time. To print. `reading-1` - **2025-02-20** From printer. May be heard in committee March 22. - **2025-03-24** Referred to Coms. on L. GOV. and H. & C.D. `referral-committee` - **2025-03-24** 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` - **2025-03-25** Re-referred to Com. on L. GOV. `referral-committee` - **2025-04-21** Assembly Rule 56 suspended. (Page 1163.) - **2025-04-21** (Pending re-refer to Com. on H. & C. D.) - **2025-04-23** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on H. & C.D. (Ayes 10. Noes 0.) (April 23). `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage, referral-committee` - **2025-04-24** Read second time and amended. `amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2` - **2025-04-28** Re-referred to Com. on H. & C.D. `referral-committee` - **2025-04-30** Coauthors revised. - **2025-04-30** 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. (Ayes 15. Noes 0.) (May 14). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable` - **2025-05-15** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2` - **2025-05-19** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 75. Noes 0. Page 1605.) `passage, reading-1, reading-3` - **2025-05-20** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1` - **2025-05-28** Referred to Coms. on L. GOV. and HOUSING. `referral-committee` - **2025-07-02** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on HOUSING with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (July 2). Re-referred to Com. on HOUSING. `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee` - **2025-07-07** 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` - **2025-07-16** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 10. Noes 0.) (July 15). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee` - **2025-08-19** From committee: Be ordered to second reading file pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8 and ordered to Consent Calendar. `committee-passage, reading-2` - **2025-08-20** Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. `reading-1, reading-2` - **2025-08-25** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 37. Noes 0. Page 2251.). `passage, reading-1, reading-3` - **2025-08-26** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. - **2025-08-28** Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 76. Noes 0. Page 2762.). `amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable` - **2025-09-04** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m. - **2025-10-10** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature` - **2025-10-10** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 501, 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/45a750f1-349c-4d98-99c7-82e9fb8e972d`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).