republic-os/legislation/us/states/ca/20092010/ab-494.md

---
type: "Bill"
title: "Local planning: agricultural laborer housing."
description: "The Planning and Zoning Law provides for the adoption and administration of zoning laws, ordinances, rules, and regulations by a city, county, or city and county."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20092010"
identifier: "AB 494"
citation: "California AB 494 (20092010)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Local planning: agricultural laborer housing."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Caballero"]
version_count: 8
action_count: 27
vote_count: 7
first_action: "2009-02-24"
last_action: "2009-10-11"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/c61c88a1-e427-40ea-8f49-0d25d0bf5c07"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB494"
source_hash: "58fea48069c074efaa492acfe47704a8299255c27ee83b5f675a5377609e46a9"
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 494 (20092010) — Local planning: agricultural laborer housing.

The Planning and Zoning Law provides for the adoption and administration of zoning laws, ordinances, rules, and regulations by a city, county, or city and county.

## Version chain

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

1. **02/24/09 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB494&version=20090AB49499INT)
2. **04/23/09 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB494&version=20090AB49498AMD)
3. **06/23/09 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB494&version=20090AB49497AMD)
4. **07/01/09 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB494&version=20090AB49496AMD)
5. **07/14/09 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB494&version=20090AB49495AMD)
6. **10/11/09 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB494&version=20090AB49493CHP)
7. **AB494** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB494)
8. **09/09/09 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB494&version=20090AB49494ENR)

## Votes

- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on Appropriations. — **pass** (pass) · lower
- AB 494 CABALLERO Assembly Third Reading — **pass** (pass) · lower
- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on Agriculture. — **pass** (pass) · lower
- AB 494 CABALLERO Concurrence in Senate Amendments — **pass** (pass) · lower
- Assembly 3rd Reading AB494 Caballero By Ducheny — **pass** (pass) · upper
- Do pass. — **pass** (pass) · lower
- Do pass as amended, and re-refer to the Committee on Appropriations. — **pass** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Caballero — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2009-02-24** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
- **2009-02-25** From printer. May be heard in committee March 27.
- **2009-03-31** Referred to Coms. on L. GOV. and AGRI. `referral-committee`
- **2009-04-16** From committee: Do pass, and re-refer to Com. on AGRI. Re-referred. (Ayes 6. Noes 0.) (April 15). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2009-04-23** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on AGRI. Read second time and amended. `amendment-introduction, reading-2, amendment-passage, reading-1`
- **2009-04-27** Re-referred to Com. on AGRI. `referral-committee`
- **2009-04-30** From committee: Do pass, and re-refer to Com. on APPR. Re-referred. (Ayes 5. Noes 1.) (April 29). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2009-05-14** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 12. Noes 3.) (May 13). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2009-05-18** Read second time. To third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2009-06-01** Read third time, passed, and to Senate. (Ayes 63. Noes 11. Page 1817.) `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2009-06-02** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2009-06-11** Referred to Com. on L. GOV. `referral-committee`
- **2009-06-23** 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, reading-2, amendment-passage, referral-committee, reading-1`
- **2009-06-25** In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
- **2009-07-01** 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, reading-2, amendment-passage, referral-committee, reading-1`
- **2009-07-13** From committee: Amend, do pass as amended, and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 3. Noes 2.) (July 8). `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage`
- **2009-07-14** Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on APPR. `amendment-passage, referral-committee, reading-2, reading-1`
- **2009-07-14** (Corrected July 16.)
- **2009-07-16** Withdrawn from committee. Ordered placed on second reading file.
- **2009-07-23** Read second time. To third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2009-08-31** Read third time, passed, and to Assembly. (Ayes 27. Noes 9. Page 2016.) `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2009-09-01** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after September 3 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
- **2009-09-02** Assembly Rule 77 suspended. (Page 2889.)
- **2009-09-03** Senate amendments concurred in. To enrollment. (Ayes 65. Noes 10. Page 2969.) `amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2009-09-11** Enrolled and to the Governor at 7 p.m.
- **2009-10-11** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2009-10-11** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 447, Statutes of 2009.

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/c61c88a1-e427-40ea-8f49-0d25d0bf5c07`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).