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Bill	Land use: housing: 2nd units.	The Planning and Zoning Law authorizes the legislative body of a city or county to regulate, among other things, the intensity of land use, and also authorizes a local agency to provide by ordinance for the creation of 2nd units in single-family and multifamily residential zones, as specified. Existing law authorizes the ordinance to designate areas within the jurisdiction of the local agency where 2nd units may be permitted, to impose specified standards on 2nd units, and to provide that 2nd units do not exceed allowable density and are a residential use, as specified.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20152016	AB 2299	California AB 2299 (20152016)	bill	Land use: housing: 2nd units.	enacted	Bloom	7	29	8	2016-02-18	2016-09-27	openstates	ocd-bill/ef648b73-375d-4b8e-9920-a8445ca0d2c7	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB2299	5ca1160e6debe65a495f5376f13cd9cfaadc0f7c7d0276fcbd32ba88c2e1e5fe	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 2299 (20152016) — Land use: housing: 2nd units.

The Planning and Zoning Law authorizes the legislative body of a city or county to regulate, among other things, the intensity of land use, and also authorizes a local agency to provide by ordinance for the creation of 2nd units in single-family and multifamily residential zones, as specified. Existing law authorizes the ordinance to designate areas within the jurisdiction of the local agency where 2nd units may be permitted, to impose specified standards on 2nd units, and to provide that 2nd units do not exceed allowable density and are a residential use, as specified.

Version chain

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

1. 02/18/16 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 04/05/16 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 08/19/16 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
4. 08/26/16 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
5. 09/27/16 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
6. AB2299 (committee substitute) — source
7. 09/02/16 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• AB 2299 BLOOM Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 60–15 (pass) · lower
• 3rd Reading AB2299 Bloom By Wieckowski — 31–4 (pass) · upper
• AB 2299 BLOOM Assembly Third Reading — 51–24 (pass) · lower
• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 4–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Governance and Finance] — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass. — 14–6 (pass) · lower
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 6–2 (pass) · lower
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Local Government] — 5–2 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Bloom — primary (person)
• Wieckowski — principal 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
• 2016-04-05 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
• 2016-04-06 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 5. Noes 2.) (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 6. Noes 2.) (April 20). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee, committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2016-05-11 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 14. Noes 6.) (May 11). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2016-05-12 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2016-06-02 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 51. Noes 24. Page 5242.) 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 Coms. on T. & H. and GOV. & F. referral-committee
• 2016-06-15 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on GOV. & F. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (June 14). Re-referred to Com. on GOV. & F. referral-committee, committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2016-06-29 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 4. Noes 0.) (June 29). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee, committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2016-08-01 From committee: Be placed on second reading file pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8. committee-passage
• 2016-08-02 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2016-08-19 Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. reading-3, amendment-passage, reading-1
• 2016-08-22 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2016-08-26 Joint Rule 61(b)(16) suspended. (Page 5452.)
• 2016-08-26 Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. reading-3, amendment-passage, reading-1
• 2016-08-29 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2016-08-30 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 31. Noes 4. Page 5519.). reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2016-08-30 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending.
• 2016-08-31 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 60. Noes 15. Page 6542.). committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage
• 2016-09-09 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 2:30 p.m.
• 2016-09-27 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2016-09-27 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 735, Statutes of 2016.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/ef648b73-375d-4b8e-9920-a8445ca0d2c7. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).