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Bill	Local planning: housing element: inventory of land for residential development.	Existing law, the Planning and Zoning Law, requires a city or county to adopt a comprehensive, long-term general plan for the physical development of the city or the county and of any land outside its boundaries that bears relation to its planning. That law requires the general plan to contain specified mandatory elements, including a housing element. Existing law requires the housing element to contain an inventory of land suitable for residential development, as defined, and requires that inventory to be used to identify sites that can be developed for housing within the planning period and that are sufficient to provide for the jurisdiction's share of the regional housing need for all income levels.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20152016	AB 2208	California AB 2208 (20152016)	bill	Local planning: housing element: inventory of land for residential development.	enacted	Santiago	8	27	9	2016-02-18	2016-09-22	openstates	ocd-bill/6b277183-07f5-4a68-998e-de4eccc945dc	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB2208	96ebe86be88331d8cec9c18177586a2c35b7c51659fdea63fcc66724dcf66e30	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 2208 (20152016) — Local planning: housing element: inventory of land for residential development.

Existing law, the Planning and Zoning Law, requires a city or county to adopt a comprehensive, long-term general plan for the physical development of the city or the county and of any land outside its boundaries that bears relation to its planning. That law requires the general plan to contain specified mandatory elements, including a housing element. Existing law requires the housing element to contain an inventory of land suitable for residential development, as defined, and requires that inventory to be used to identify sites that can be developed for housing within the planning period and that are sufficient to provide for the jurisdiction's share of the regional housing need for all income levels.

Version chain

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

1. 02/18/16 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 04/04/16 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 06/01/16 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
4. 06/23/16 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
5. 08/15/16 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
6. 09/22/16 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
7. AB2208 (committee substitute) — source
8. 08/26/16 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• AB 2208 SANTIAGO Assembly Third Reading — 78–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Local Government] — 7–0 (pass) · lower
• Placed on suspense file — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• 3rd Reading AB2208 Santiago By McGuire — 38–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass. — 19–1 (pass) · lower
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 8–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 11–0 (pass) · upper
• AB 2208 SANTIAGO Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 79–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Santiago — primary (person)
• Steinorth — coauthor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2016-02-18 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2016-02-19 From printer. May be heard in committee March 20.
• 2016-03-03 Referred to Coms. on H. & C.D. and L. GOV. referral-committee
• 2016-04-04 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on H. & C.D. Read second time and amended. reading-2, amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1
• 2016-04-05 Re-referred to Com. on H. & C.D. referral-committee
• 2016-04-07 Assembly Rule 56 suspended. (Page 4218.)
• 2016-04-07 (pending re-refer to Com. on L. GOV.)
• 2016-04-13 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on L. GOV. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (April 13). Re-referred to Com. on L. GOV. referral-committee, committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2016-04-21 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 8. Noes 0.) (April 20). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee, committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2016-05-11 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 19. Noes 1.) (May 11). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2016-05-12 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2016-06-01 Read third time and amended. Ordered to third reading. (Page 5075.) reading-3, amendment-passage, reading-1
• 2016-06-02 Assembly Rule 69 suspended. (Page 5166.)
• 2016-06-02 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 78. Noes 0. Page 5177.) reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2016-06-06 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2016-06-09 Referred to Com. on T. & H. referral-committee
• 2016-06-22 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 11. Noes 0.) (June 21). amendment-introduction, committee-passage, amendment-passage
• 2016-06-23 Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee, reading-2, amendment-passage, reading-1
• 2016-08-01 In committee: Referred to APPR. suspense file. referral-committee
• 2016-08-11 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (August 11). amendment-introduction, committee-passage, amendment-passage
• 2016-08-15 Read second time and amended. Ordered to third reading. amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1
• 2016-08-18 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 38. Noes 0. Page 5119.). reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2016-08-19 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after August 21 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
• 2016-08-24 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 79. Noes 0. Page 6192.). committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage
• 2016-08-31 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.
• 2016-09-22 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2016-09-22 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 460, Statutes of 2016.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/6b277183-07f5-4a68-998e-de4eccc945dc. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).