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Bill	Housing elements: adoption.	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 county and of any land outside its boundaries that bears relation to its planning. That law also requires the general plan to contain specified mandatory elements, including a housing element for the preservation, improvement, and development of housing. Existing law prescribes requirements for the preparation of the housing element, including a requirement that a planning agency submit a draft of the element or draft amendment to the element to the Department of Housing and Community Development prior to the adoption of the element or amendment to the element.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20152016	AB 2685	California AB 2685 (20152016)	bill	Housing elements: adoption.	enacted	Lopez	7	27	6	2016-02-19	2016-09-09	openstates	ocd-bill/7e529c10-6566-42e4-ba3f-6cc479ccae9a	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB2685	ba322d05d3bcc81aa3e918c9910daba33325a6d88e00f45e948faa942a3bfa0a	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 2685 (20152016) — Housing elements: adoption.

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 county and of any land outside its boundaries that bears relation to its planning. That law also requires the general plan to contain specified mandatory elements, including a housing element for the preservation, improvement, and development of housing. Existing law prescribes requirements for the preparation of the housing element, including a requirement that a planning agency submit a draft of the element or draft amendment to the element to the Department of Housing and Community Development prior to the adoption of the element or amendment to the element.

Version chain

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

1. 02/19/16 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 03/18/16 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 04/25/16 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
4. 05/11/16 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
5. 09/09/16 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
6. AB2685 (committee substitute) — source
7. 08/18/16 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do pass. To Consent Calendar. — 20–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Local Government] — 6–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 9–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 11–0 (pass) · upper
• 3rd Reading AB2685 Lopez By Hernandez — 38–0 (pass) · upper
• AB 2685 LOPEZ Consent Calendar Second Day — 67–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Lopez — primary (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
• 2016-03-17 Referred to Coms. on H. & C.D. and L. GOV. referral-committee
• 2016-03-18 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
• 2016-03-28 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 6. Noes 0.) (April 13). Re-referred to Com. on L. GOV. referral-committee, committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2016-04-21 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.) (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 APPR. referral-committee
• 2016-05-11 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on APPR. Read second time and amended. reading-2, amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1
• 2016-05-12 Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee
• 2016-05-18 From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 20. Noes 0.) (May 18). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2016-05-19 Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. reading-2, reading-1
• 2016-05-27 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 67. Noes 0. Page 4960.) 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
• 2016-06-22 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 11. Noes 0.) (June 21). 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
• 2016-08-17 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 38. Noes 0. Page 5055.). reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2016-08-17 In Assembly. Ordered to Engrossing and Enrolling. committee-passage
• 2016-08-23 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 2 p.m.
• 2016-09-09 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2016-09-09 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 271, Statutes of 2016.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/7e529c10-6566-42e4-ba3f-6cc479ccae9a. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).