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Bill	Land use: housing development.	The Housing Accountability Act, among other things, prohibits a local agency from disapproving a housing development project for very low, low-, or moderate-income households or an emergency shelter or conditioning approval in a manner that renders the project infeasible unless the local agency makes specified written findings. The act authorizes an applicant or person who would be eligible to apply for residency in the development or emergency shelter to bring an action to enforce the act.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20152016	AB 2584	California AB 2584 (20152016)	bill	Land use: housing development.	enacted	Daly	7	21	6	2016-02-19	2016-09-21	openstates	ocd-bill/68e8cf2f-7be3-42e8-aa5b-3ba878f3a702	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB2584	601b31fdeb5dd7dc4180c026bf04516b991e5a5f0442627a7f617cd47cc93a92	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 2584 (20152016) — Land use: housing development.

The Housing Accountability Act, among other things, prohibits a local agency from disapproving a housing development project for very low, low-, or moderate-income households or an emergency shelter or conditioning approval in a manner that renders the project infeasible unless the local agency makes specified written findings. The act authorizes an applicant or person who would be eligible to apply for residency in the development or emergency shelter to bring an action to enforce the act.

Version chain

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

1. 02/19/16 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 04/25/16 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 06/15/16 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
4. 06/27/16 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
5. 09/21/16 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
6. AB2584 (committee substitute) — source
7. 08/25/16 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do pass. — 9–0 (pass) · lower
• 3rd Reading AB2584 Daly By Mendoza — 36–0 (pass) · upper
• AB 2584 DALY Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 68–11 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on [Judiciary] — 6–1 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended — 10–1 (pass) · upper
• AB 2584 DALY Assembly Third Reading — 64–9 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Daly — primary (person)
• Atkins — coauthor (person)
• Cristina Garcia — coauthor (person)
• Low — coauthor (person)
• Santiago — coauthor (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
• 2016-03-10 Referred to Coms. on H. & C.D. and JUD. referral-committee
• 2016-04-21 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on JUD. (Ayes 6. Noes 1.) (April 20). amendment-introduction, committee-passage, amendment-passage
• 2016-04-25 Read second time and amended. amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1
• 2016-04-26 Re-referred to Com. on JUD. referral-committee
• 2016-05-03 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.) (May 3). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2016-05-04 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2016-05-09 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 64. Noes 9. Page 4723.) reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2016-05-09 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2016-05-19 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
• 2016-06-23 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 10. Noes 1.) (June 21). amendment-introduction, committee-passage, amendment-passage
• 2016-06-27 Read second time and amended. Ordered to third reading. amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1
• 2016-08-15 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 36. Noes 0. Page 4953.). reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2016-08-16 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after August 18 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
• 2016-08-23 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 68. Noes 11. Page 6105.). committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage
• 2016-08-31 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.
• 2016-09-21 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2016-09-21 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 420, Statutes of 2016.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/68e8cf2f-7be3-42e8-aa5b-3ba878f3a702. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).