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Bill	Planning and zoning: housing.	The Housing Accountability Act, which is part of the Planning and Zoning Law, prohibits a local agency from disapproving, or conditioning approval in a manner that renders infeasible, a housing development project very low, low-, or moderate-income households or an emergency shelter unless the local agency makes specified findings. Under the act, the local agency may disapprove or condition approval of a housing development project or emergency shelter if, among other reasons, the housing development project or emergency shelter is inconsistent with both the jurisdiction's zoning ordinance and general plan land use designation, as provided. The act makes various findings and declarations relating to its provisions.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20172018	AB 1515	California AB 1515 (20172018)	bill	Planning and zoning: housing.	enacted	Daly	7	26	1	2017-02-17	2017-09-29	openstates	ocd-bill/a8f66eac-5776-4a88-96d1-6c8e42b2f6bf	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB1515	9c98fc8473f2988ba55aa137be9c1f8c6fb107b489dd1331fe8f804c2fbbb30c	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 1515 (20172018) — Planning and zoning: housing.

The Housing Accountability Act, which is part of the Planning and Zoning Law, prohibits a local agency from disapproving, or conditioning approval in a manner that renders infeasible, a housing development project very low, low-, or moderate-income households or an emergency shelter unless the local agency makes specified findings. Under the act, the local agency may disapprove or condition approval of a housing development project or emergency shelter if, among other reasons, the housing development project or emergency shelter is inconsistent with both the jurisdiction's zoning ordinance and general plan land use designation, as provided. The act makes various findings and declarations relating to its provisions.

Version chain

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

1. 02/17/17 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 04/17/17 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 05/01/17 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
4. 07/13/17 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
5. 09/29/17 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
6. AB1515 (committee substitute) — source
7. 09/19/17 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• 3rd Reading AB1515 Daly By Atkins — 35–2 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Daly — primary (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.
• 2017-03-16 Referred to Coms. on H. & C.D. and L. GOV. referral-committee
• 2017-04-17 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on H. & C.D. Read second time and amended. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1
• 2017-04-18 Re-referred to Com. on H. & C.D. referral-committee
• 2017-04-27 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on L. GOV. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (April 26). amendment-passage, committee-passage, amendment-introduction
• 2017-05-01 Read second time and amended. reading-1, amendment-passage, reading-2
• 2017-05-02 Re-referred to Com. on L. GOV. referral-committee
• 2017-05-11 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 7. Noes 1.) (May 10). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2017-05-15 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2017-05-18 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 68. Noes 1. Page 1615.) reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2017-05-18 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2017-06-01 Referred to Coms. on T. & H. and GOV. & F. referral-committee
• 2017-06-19 In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
• 2017-07-12 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on RLS. (Ayes 10. Noes 1.) (July 11). Re-referred to Com. on RLS. committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2017-07-13 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on RLS. amendment-passage, referral-committee, reading-2, reading-1, amendment-introduction
• 2017-07-17 Withdrawn from committee.
• 2017-07-17 Ordered to second reading.
• 2017-07-18 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2017-09-15 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 35. Noes 2. Page 2963.). 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 75. Noes 4. Page 3515.). 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 378, Statutes of 2017.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/a8f66eac-5776-4a88-96d1-6c8e42b2f6bf. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).