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Bill	Land use: housing element.	The Planning and Zoning Law requires each city, county, and city and county to prepare and adopt a general plan that contains certain mandatory elements, including a housing element that analyzes existing and projected housing needs and includes a statement of goals, quantified objectives, policies, financial resources, and scheduled programs for the maintenance, preservation, improvement, and development of housing. The housing element is required to identify the existing and projected housing needs of all economic segments of the community. The Department of Housing and Community Development is authorized to allow a city, county, or city and county to substitute the provision of units for up to 25% of the community's obligation to identify adequate sites for any income category in its housing element, as specified, when the community includes in its housing element a program committing the local government to provide units in that income category within the city, county, or city and county that will be made available through the provision of committed assistance during the planning period covered by the housing element to low- and very low income households at affordable housing costs or affordable rents, as defined. Units that are to be substantially rehabilitated with committed assistance from the city, county, or city and county and constitute a net increase in the community's housing stock may be included in this housing element program, if the units meet certain criteria. Existing law defines various terms for use of these provisions.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20092010	AB 720	California AB 720 (20092010)	bill	Land use: housing element.	enacted	Caballero	8	24	6	2009-02-26	2009-10-11	openstates	ocd-bill/67b3a631-b19a-412a-9e74-53a0f104007a	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB720	12a759e6ec005c93de13058dca68263c61104743bf1836d3c0c43f930797fb10	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 720 (20092010) — Land use: housing element.

The Planning and Zoning Law requires each city, county, and city and county to prepare and adopt a general plan that contains certain mandatory elements, including a housing element that analyzes existing and projected housing needs and includes a statement of goals, quantified objectives, policies, financial resources, and scheduled programs for the maintenance, preservation, improvement, and development of housing. The housing element is required to identify the existing and projected housing needs of all economic segments of the community. The Department of Housing and Community Development is authorized to allow a city, county, or city and county to substitute the provision of units for up to 25% of the community's obligation to identify adequate sites for any income category in its housing element, as specified, when the community includes in its housing element a program committing the local government to provide units in that income category within the city, county, or city and county that will be made available through the provision of committed assistance during the planning period covered by the housing element to low- and very low income households at affordable housing costs or affordable rents, as defined. Units that are to be substantially rehabilitated with committed assistance from the city, county, or city and county and constitute a net increase in the community's housing stock may be included in this housing element program, if the units meet certain criteria. Existing law defines various terms for use of these provisions.

Version chain

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

1. 02/26/09 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 04/20/09 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 05/14/09 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
4. 06/30/09 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
5. 07/14/09 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
6. 10/11/09 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
7. AB720 (committee substitute) — source
8. 08/20/09 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• AB 720 CABALLERO Assembly Third Reading — pass (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended. To Consent Calendar. — pass (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended. — pass (pass) · lower
• Consent Calendar 2nd AB720 Caballero — pass (pass) · upper
• AB 720 CABALLERO Concurrence in Senate Amendments — pass (pass) · lower
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on Housing and Community Development. — pass (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Caballero — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2009-02-26 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2009-03-01 From printer. May be heard in committee March 30.
• 2009-03-23 Referred to Coms. on L. GOV. and H. & C.D. referral-committee
• 2009-04-20 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on L. GOV. Read second time and amended. amendment-introduction, reading-2, amendment-passage, reading-1
• 2009-04-20 (Corrected April 21.)
• 2009-04-21 Re-referred to Com. on L. GOV. referral-committee
• 2009-05-07 From committee: Do pass, and re-refer to Com. on H. & C.D. Re-referred. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (May 6). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2009-05-13 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 6. Noes 0.) (May 13). amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage
• 2009-05-14 Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1
• 2009-05-18 Read second time. To third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2009-05-26 Read third time, passed, and to Senate. (Ayes 78. Noes 0. Page 1664.) reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2009-05-27 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2009-06-11 Referred to Com. on T. & H. referral-committee
• 2009-06-30 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
• 2009-07-13 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. To Consent Calendar. (July 7). amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage
• 2009-07-14 Read second time, amended, and to Consent Calendar. amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1
• 2009-07-16 Read third time, passed, and to Assembly. (Ayes 36. Noes 0. Page 1765.) reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2009-07-16 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after July 18 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
• 2009-08-17 Senate amendments concurred in. To enrollment. (Ayes 76. Noes 0. Page 2604.) amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2009-08-24 Enrolled and to the Governor at 1:30 p.m.
• 2009-09-08 Returned by the Governor at the request of the Assembly.
• 2009-09-25 Enrolled and to the Governor at 5 p.m.
• 2009-10-11 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2009-10-11 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 467, Statutes of 2009.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/67b3a631-b19a-412a-9e74-53a0f104007a. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).