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Bill	Local planning: housing element: inventory of land for residential development.	Existing law, the Planning and Zoning Law, requires each city, county, and city and county to prepare and adopt a general plan that contains certain mandatory elements, including a housing element. Existing law requires the housing element to contain, among other things, an inventory of land suitable for residential development, including vacant sites and sites having the potential for redevelopment.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20172018	AB 1397	California AB 1397 (20172018)	bill	Local planning: housing element: inventory of land for residential development.	enacted	Low	10	31	8	2017-02-17	2017-09-29	openstates	ocd-bill/280e39dd-182c-4c82-a91b-00c315790f8f	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB1397	e1df68607d9753c205a480a8822b3c1fce8ab7f2d7775e197758852e5883d149	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 1397 (20172018) — Local planning: housing element: inventory of land for residential development.

Existing law, the Planning and Zoning Law, requires each city, county, and city and county to prepare and adopt a general plan that contains certain mandatory elements, including a housing element. Existing law requires the housing element to contain, among other things, an inventory of land suitable for residential development, including vacant sites and sites having the potential for redevelopment.

Version chain

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

1. 02/17/17 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 04/20/17 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 05/17/17 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
4. 05/26/17 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
5. 07/03/17 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
6. 07/14/17 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
7. 08/21/17 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
8. 09/29/17 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
9. AB1397 (committee substitute) — source
10. 09/19/17 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Local Government] — 5–2 (pass) · lower
• AB 1397 LOW Assembly Third Reading — 51–25 (pass) · lower
• Do pass. — 11–5 (pass) · lower
• Do pass — 5–2 (pass) · upper
• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 9–1 (pass) · upper
• AB 1397 LOW Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 49–25 (pass) · lower
• 3rd Reading AB1397 Low et al. By Wiener — 24–11 (pass) · upper
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 6–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Low — primary (person)
• Bloom — coauthor (person)
• Chiu — coauthor (person)
• Wiener — coauthor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2017-02-17 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2017-02-19 From printer. May be heard in committee March 21.
• 2017-03-13 Referred to Coms. on H. & C.D. and L. GOV. referral-committee
• 2017-04-17 Assembly Rule 56 suspended. (Page 1005.)
• 2017-04-17 (pending re-refer to Com. on L. GOV.)
• 2017-04-19 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on L. GOV. (Ayes 5. Noes 2.) (April 19). Re-referred to Com. on L. GOV. committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2017-04-20 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on L. GOV. Read second time and amended. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1
• 2017-04-24 Re-referred to Com. on L. GOV. referral-committee
• 2017-04-27 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 6. Noes 0.) (April 26). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2017-05-17 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on APPR. Read second time and amended. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1
• 2017-05-18 Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee
• 2017-05-24 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 11. Noes 5.) (May 24). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2017-05-25 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2017-05-26 Read third time and amended. Ordered to third reading. (Page 1718.) amendment-passage, reading-3, reading-1
• 2017-05-31 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 51. Noes 25. Page 1887.) reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2017-06-01 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2017-06-14 Referred to Com. on T. & H. referral-committee
• 2017-07-03 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. amendment-passage, referral-committee, reading-2, reading-1, amendment-introduction
• 2017-07-12 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 9. Noes 1.) (July 11). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2017-07-14 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on APPR. amendment-passage, referral-committee, reading-2, reading-1, amendment-introduction
• 2017-07-17 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 5. Noes 2.) (July 17). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2017-07-18 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2017-08-21 Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-3, reading-1
• 2017-08-22 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2017-09-15 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 24. Noes 11. Page 2955.). reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2017-09-15 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending.
• 2017-09-15 Assembly Rule 63 suspended. (Page 3507.)
• 2017-09-15 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 49. Noes 25. Page 3513.). committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage
• 2017-09-26 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m.
• 2017-09-29 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2017-09-29 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 375, Statutes of 2017.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/280e39dd-182c-4c82-a91b-00c315790f8f. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).