---
type: "Bill"
title: "Housing development projects: objective standards: campus development zone."
description: "Existing law, the Affordable Housing and High Road Jobs Act of 2022 (act) , until January 1, 2033, authorizes a development proponent to submit an application for an affordable housing development or a mixed-income housing development that meets specified objective standards and affordability and site criteria, including being located within a zone where office, retail, or parking are a principally permitted use. The act makes a development that meets those objective standards and affordability and site criteria a use by right and subject to one of 2 streamlined, ministerial review processes depending on, among other things, the affordability requirements applicable to the project. The act requires the Department of Housing and Community Development to undertake at least 2 studies, one completed on or before January 1, 2027, and one completed on or before January 1, 2031, on the outcomes of the act."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20252026"
identifier: "AB 893"
citation: "California AB 893 (20252026)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Housingdevelopmentprojects", "campusdevelopmentzone", "objectivestandards"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Fong"]
version_count: 9
action_count: 28
vote_count: 8
first_action: "2025-02-19"
last_action: "2025-10-10"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/e5318d98-8544-4706-8944-fd9b4f8ac8cd"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB893"
source_hash: "97cc2b480cb6d484318490304d2b0d724ba1f86303f33fd0981d7a6bb1a31614"
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 893 (20252026) — Housing development projects: objective standards: campus development zone.

Existing law, the Affordable Housing and High Road Jobs Act of 2022 (act) , until January 1, 2033, authorizes a development proponent to submit an application for an affordable housing development or a mixed-income housing development that meets specified objective standards and affordability and site criteria, including being located within a zone where office, retail, or parking are a principally permitted use. The act makes a development that meets those objective standards and affordability and site criteria a use by right and subject to one of 2 streamlined, ministerial review processes depending on, among other things, the affordability requirements applicable to the project. The act requires the Department of Housing and Community Development to undertake at least 2 studies, one completed on or before January 1, 2027, and one completed on or before January 1, 2031, on the outcomes of the act.

## 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=202520260AB893&version=20250AB89399INT)
2. **04/10/25 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB893&version=20250AB89398AMD)
3. **04/21/25 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB893&version=20250AB89397AMD)
4. **05/27/25 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB893&version=20250AB89396AMD)
5. **07/03/25 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB893&version=20250AB89395AMD)
6. **08/25/25 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB893&version=20250AB89394AMD)
7. **10/10/25 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB893&version=20250AB89392CHP)
8. **AB893** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB893)
9. **09/10/25 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB893&version=20250AB89393ENR)

## Votes

- AB 893 Fong Assembly Third Reading — **65–5** (pass) · lower
- 3rd Reading AB893 Fong et al. By Cabaldon — **31–9** (pass) · upper
- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **9–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass. — **10–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Local Government] — **9–1** (pass) · upper
- Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **5–2** (pass) · upper
- AB 893 Fong Concurrence in Senate Amendments — **62–5** (pass) · lower
- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Local Government] — **10–1** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Fong — primary (person)
- Caloza — coauthor (person)
- Haney — coauthor (person)
- Kalra — coauthor (person)
- Wicks — coauthor (person)
- Wilson — 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.
- **2025-03-10** Referred to Coms. on H. & C.D. and L. GOV. `referral-committee`
- **2025-04-09** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on L. GOV. (Ayes 10. Noes 1.) (April 9). Re-referred to Com. on L. GOV. `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
- **2025-04-10** 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`
- **2025-04-21** Re-referred to Com. on L. GOV. `referral-committee`
- **2025-04-21** 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`
- **2025-04-22** Re-referred to Com. on L. GOV. `referral-committee`
- **2025-05-01** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 9. 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 10. Noes 0.) (May 14). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-05-15** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2025-05-27** Read third time and amended. Ordered to third reading. (Page 1745.) `amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2025-06-02** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 65. Noes 5. Page 1813.) `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2025-06-03** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2025-06-11** Referred to Coms. on HOUSING and L. GOV. `referral-committee`
- **2025-07-02** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on L. GOV. (Ayes 9. Noes 1.) (July 1). `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2025-07-03** Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on L. GOV. `amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2025-07-16** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 5. Noes 2.) (July 16). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
- **2025-08-19** From committee: Be ordered to second reading pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8. `committee-passage, reading-2`
- **2025-08-20** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2025-08-25** Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. `amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2025-08-26** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2025-09-03** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 31. Noes 9. Page 2437.). `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2025-09-03** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending.
- **2025-09-08** Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 62. Noes 5. Page 3018.). `amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-09-15** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4:30 p.m.
- **2025-10-10** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2025-10-10** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 500, 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/e5318d98-8544-4706-8944-fd9b4f8ac8cd`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).