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Bill	Housing: density bonuses.	Existing law, the Planning and Zoning Law, requires, when an applicant proposes a housing development within the jurisdiction of the local government, that the city, county, or city and county provide the developer with a density bonus and other incentives or concessions for the production of lower income housing units or for the donation of land within the development if the developer, among other things, agrees to construct a specified percentage of units for very low income, low-income, or moderate-income households or qualifying residents. Existing law authorizes the waiver or reduction of development standards that would preclude this development. Existing law requires continued affordability for 55 years or longer, as specified, of all very low income and low-income units that qualified an applicant for a density bonus. Existing law requires a city, county, or city and county to adopt an ordinance to implement these requirements and to establish procedures to carry them out.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20152016	AB 2501	California AB 2501 (20152016)	bill	Housing: density bonuses.	enacted	Bloom	9	31	7	2016-02-19	2016-09-28	openstates	ocd-bill/26b247c5-2843-4f40-9bf9-d3bc1bf0bd93	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB2501	f08c7dcaa0e452dcf795a122892c6033773b50f6701a8c56c862024c704b0c66	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 2501 (20152016) — Housing: density bonuses.

Existing law, the Planning and Zoning Law, requires, when an applicant proposes a housing development within the jurisdiction of the local government, that the city, county, or city and county provide the developer with a density bonus and other incentives or concessions for the production of lower income housing units or for the donation of land within the development if the developer, among other things, agrees to construct a specified percentage of units for very low income, low-income, or moderate-income households or qualifying residents. Existing law authorizes the waiver or reduction of development standards that would preclude this development. Existing law requires continued affordability for 55 years or longer, as specified, of all very low income and low-income units that qualified an applicant for a density bonus. Existing law requires a city, county, or city and county to adopt an ordinance to implement these requirements and to establish procedures to carry them out.

Version chain

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

1. 02/19/16 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 04/05/16 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 04/14/16 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
4. 06/15/16 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
5. 08/01/16 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
6. 08/19/16 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
7. 09/28/16 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
8. AB2501 (committee substitute) — source
9. 09/02/16 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 10–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Local Government] — 5–1 (pass) · lower
• AB 2501 BLOOM Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 74–4 (pass) · lower
• 3rd Reading AB2501 Bloom By Allen — 34–3 (pass) · upper
• AB 2501 BLOOM Assembly Third Reading — 50–11 (pass) · lower
• Do pass. — 14–2 (pass) · lower
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 7–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Bloom — primary (person)
• Daly — coauthor (person)
• Low — author (person)

Timeline

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

• 2016-02-19 Introduced. To print. introduction
• 2016-02-21 From printer. May be heard in committee March 22.
• 2016-02-22 Read first time. reading-1
• 2016-03-08 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 1.) (April 13). Re-referred to Com. on L. GOV. referral-committee, committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2016-04-14 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on L. GOV. Read second time and amended. reading-2, amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1
• 2016-04-18 Re-referred to Com. on L. GOV. referral-committee
• 2016-04-21 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 7. 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 14. Noes 2.) (May 11). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2016-05-12 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2016-05-27 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 50. Noes 11. Page 4952.) reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2016-05-27 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2016-06-09 Referred to Com. on T. & H. referral-committee
• 2016-06-15 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. referral-committee, reading-2, amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1
• 2016-06-21 In committee: Set, first hearing. Testimony taken. Further hearing to be set.
• 2016-06-30 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 10. Noes 0.) (June 28). amendment-introduction, committee-passage, amendment-passage
• 2016-08-01 Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee, reading-2, amendment-passage, reading-1
• 2016-08-08 From committee: Be placed on second reading file pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8. committee-passage
• 2016-08-09 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
• 2016-08-25 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 34. Noes 3. Page 5417.). 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 74. Noes 4. Page 6540.). committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage
• 2016-09-12 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 11:30 a.m.
• 2016-09-28 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2016-09-28 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 758, Statutes of 2016.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/26b247c5-2843-4f40-9bf9-d3bc1bf0bd93. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).