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Bill	Housing Accountability Act: project approval.	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 for very low, low-, or moderate-income households or an emergency shelter unless the local agency makes specified written findings, based upon a preponderance of the evidence, that one or more conditions exist, including that the housing development project or emergency shelter would have a specific, adverse impact upon the public health or safety, as specified. The act also requires a local agency proposing to disapprove a housing development project that complies with applicable, objective general plan and zoning standards and criteria, or to approve it on the condition that it be developed at a lower density, to base its decision upon written findings supported by a preponderance of the evidence on the record that specified conditions exist, including if the housing development project would have a specific, adverse impact upon the public health or safety.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20172018	AB 3194	California AB 3194 (20172018)	bill	Housing Accountability Act: project approval.	enacted	Daly	9	29	7	2018-02-16	2018-08-28	openstates	ocd-bill/aa330c98-00d2-428b-b5c2-ef3f2d63349c	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB3194	c6fe645415317a071a49ba5753457e8e08299e19e05a1a3f06d46f179e7a60ac	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 3194 (20172018) — Housing Accountability Act: project approval.

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 for very low, low-, or moderate-income households or an emergency shelter unless the local agency makes specified written findings, based upon a preponderance of the evidence, that one or more conditions exist, including that the housing development project or emergency shelter would have a specific, adverse impact upon the public health or safety, as specified. The act also requires a local agency proposing to disapprove a housing development project that complies with applicable, objective general plan and zoning standards and criteria, or to approve it on the condition that it be developed at a lower density, to base its decision upon written findings supported by a preponderance of the evidence on the record that specified conditions exist, including if the housing development project would have a specific, adverse impact upon the public health or safety.

Version chain

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

1. 02/16/18 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 04/16/18 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 04/30/18 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
4. 05/29/18 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
5. 06/21/18 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
6. 07/05/18 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
7. 08/28/18 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
8. AB3194 (committee substitute) — source
9. 08/14/18 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Governance and Finance] — 13–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass and be ordered to the Consent Calendar — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• AB 3194 DALY Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 73–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass. — 8–1 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on [Local Government] — 7–0 (pass) · lower
• 3rd Reading AB3194 Daly By Skinner — 36–0 (pass) · upper
• AB 3194 DALY Assembly Third Reading — 70–4 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Daly — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2018-02-16 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2018-02-17 From printer. May be heard in committee March 19.
• 2018-03-15 Referred to Coms. on H. & C.D. and L. GOV. referral-committee
• 2018-04-16 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
• 2018-04-17 Re-referred to Com. on H. & C.D. referral-committee
• 2018-04-26 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on L. GOV. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (April 25). amendment-passage, committee-passage, amendment-introduction
• 2018-04-30 Read second time and amended. reading-1, amendment-passage, reading-2
• 2018-05-01 Re-referred to Com. on L. GOV. referral-committee
• 2018-05-10 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 8. Noes 1.) (May 9). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2018-05-14 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2018-05-29 Assembly Rule 69(b) suspended. (Ayes 51. Noes 25. Page 5434.)
• 2018-05-29 Read third time and amended. Ordered to third reading. (Page 5435.) amendment-passage, reading-3, reading-1
• 2018-05-31 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 70. Noes 4. Page 5588.) reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2018-06-04 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2018-06-13 Referred to Coms. on T. & H. and GOV. & F. referral-committee
• 2018-06-20 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on GOV. & F. (Ayes 13. Noes 0.) (June 19). amendment-passage, committee-passage, amendment-introduction
• 2018-06-21 Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on GOV. & F. amendment-passage, reading-2, referral-committee, reading-1
• 2018-06-28 From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (June 27). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2018-07-02 Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. reading-2, reading-1
• 2018-07-02 From Consent Calendar.
• 2018-07-02 Ordered to third reading.
• 2018-07-05 Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-3, reading-1
• 2018-08-06 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2018-08-09 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 36. Noes 0. Page 5234.). reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2018-08-09 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after August 11 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
• 2018-08-13 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 73. Noes 0. Page 6246.). committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage
• 2018-08-16 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.
• 2018-08-28 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2018-08-28 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 243, Statutes of 2018.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/aa330c98-00d2-428b-b5c2-ef3f2d63349c. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).