republic-os/legislation/us/states/ca/20092010/ab-1865.md

---
type: "Bill"
title: "Local Housing Trust Fund Matching Grant Program."
description: "Existing law establishes the Local Housing Trust Fund Matching Grant Program for the purpose of supporting local housing trust funds dedicated to the creation or preservation of affordable housing. Under the grant program, the Department of Housing and Community Development is authorized to make matching grants available to cities, counties, city and counties, and existing charitable nonprofit organizations that have created, funded, and operated housing trust funds. Existing law establishes the minimum allocation to a program applicant at $500,000 for a newly established trust, as defined, that is in a county with a population of less than 425,000 persons, based on the decennial United States Census for the year 2000, and at $1,000,000 for all other trusts."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20092010"
identifier: "AB 1865"
citation: "California AB 1865 (20092010)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Local Housing Trust Fund Matching Grant Program."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Audra Strickland"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 21
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2010-02-12"
last_action: "2010-08-27"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/9afc04ab-bac8-4378-b47b-a4747a7fad56"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB1865"
source_hash: "8013017ee5371dfcae87c11915e8cbabae8777134431524fa5b6d4d2fe542b29"
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 1865 (20092010) — Local Housing Trust Fund Matching Grant Program.

Existing law establishes the Local Housing Trust Fund Matching Grant Program for the purpose of supporting local housing trust funds dedicated to the creation or preservation of affordable housing. Under the grant program, the Department of Housing and Community Development is authorized to make matching grants available to cities, counties, city and counties, and existing charitable nonprofit organizations that have created, funded, and operated housing trust funds. Existing law establishes the minimum allocation to a program applicant at $500,000 for a newly established trust, as defined, that is in a county with a population of less than 425,000 persons, based on the decennial United States Census for the year 2000, and at $1,000,000 for all other trusts.

## Version chain

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

1. **02/12/10 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB1865&version=20090AB186599INT)
2. **06/14/10 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB1865&version=20090AB186598AMD)
3. **08/27/10 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB1865&version=20090AB186596CHP)
4. **AB1865** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB1865)
5. **08/12/10 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB1865&version=20090AB186597ENR)

## Votes

- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on Appropriations. — **pass** (pass) · lower
- Consent Calendar 2nd AB1865 Audra Strickland — **pass** (pass) · upper
- AB 1865 STRICKLAND Assembly Third Reading By ARAMBULA — **pass** (pass) · lower
- Do pass. — **pass** (pass) · lower
- AB 1865 STRICKLAND Concurrence in Senate Amendments — **pass** (pass) · lower
- Do pass, but re-refer to the Committee on Appropriations Recommend Consent. — **pass** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Audra Strickland — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2010-02-12** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
- **2010-02-16** From printer. May be heard in committee March 18.
- **2010-02-25** Referred to Com. on H. & C.D. `referral-committee`
- **2010-03-18** In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
- **2010-04-14** From committee: Do pass, and re-refer to Com. on APPR. Re-referred. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.) (April 14). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2010-04-28** In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to APPR. suspense file. `referral-committee`
- **2010-05-28** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 17. Noes 0.) (May 28). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2010-05-28** Read second time. To third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2010-06-02** Read third time, passed, and to Senate. (Ayes 75. Noes 0. Page 5448.) `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2010-06-03** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2010-06-10** Referred to Com. on T. & H. `referral-committee`
- **2010-06-14** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on T. & H. `amendment-introduction, reading-2, amendment-passage, referral-committee, reading-1`
- **2010-06-23** From committee: Do pass, and re-refer to Com. on APPR with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. Re-referred. (Ayes 6. Noes 0.) (June 22). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2010-08-02** From committee: Be placed on second reading file pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8 and to Consent Calendar. `committee-passage`
- **2010-08-03** Read second time. To Consent Calendar. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2010-08-05** Read third time, passed, and to Assembly. (Ayes 33. Noes 0. Page 4374.) `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2010-08-05** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after August 7 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
- **2010-08-09** Senate amendments concurred in. To enrollment. (Ayes 77. Noes 0. Page 6092.) `amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2010-08-16** Enrolled and to the Governor at 4:55 p.m.
- **2010-08-27** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2010-08-27** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 198, Statutes of 2010.

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/9afc04ab-bac8-4378-b47b-a4747a7fad56`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).