Housing discrimination: affirmatively further fair housing.
Existing federal law, the federal Fair Housing Act, requires, among other things, certain federal executive departments and agencies to administer their programs relating to housing and urban development in a manner affirmatively to further the purposes of the federal act. Existing federal law requires specified state and local agencies that contract with, or receive funding from, specified federal agencies to certify that they will affirmatively further fair housing by completing an assessment of fair housing and submitting that assessment to the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development.
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California Legislature
20172018
AB 686
California AB 686 (20172018)
bill
Housing discrimination: affirmatively further fair housing.
California AB 686 (20172018) — Housing discrimination: affirmatively further fair housing.
Existing federal law, the federal Fair Housing Act, requires, among other things, certain federal executive departments and agencies to administer their programs relating to housing and urban development in a manner affirmatively to further the purposes of the federal act. Existing federal law requires specified state and local agencies that contract with, or receive funding from, specified federal agencies to certify that they will affirmatively further fair housing by completing an assessment of fair housing and submitting that assessment to the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development.
Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Judiciary] — 11–1 (pass) · upper
AB 686 SANTIAGO Assembly Third Reading — 55–21 (pass) · lower
Placed on suspense file — 7–0 (pass) · upper
Do pass as amended. — 12–5 (pass) · lower
Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 8–2 (pass) · lower
AB 686 SANTIAGO Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 56–23 (pass) · lower
3rd Reading AB686 Santiago et al. By Wiener — 31–7 (pass) · upper
Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on [Judiciary] — 5–2 (pass) · lower
Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 5–1 (pass) · upper
Do pass as amended — 5–2 (pass) · upper
Sponsors
Santiago — primary (person)
Chiu — coauthor (person)
Cristina Garcia — coauthor (person)
Gloria — coauthor (person)
Hertzberg — coauthor (person)
Wiener — principal coauthor (person)
Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
2017-02-15 Read first time. To print. reading-1
2017-02-16 From printer. May be heard in committee March 18.
2017-03-02 Referred to Coms. on H. & C.D. and JUD. referral-committee
2017-03-15 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
2017-03-16 Re-referred to Com. on H. & C.D. referral-committee
2017-03-16 In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
2017-04-05 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on JUD. (Ayes 5. Noes 2.) (April 5). amendment-passage, committee-passage, amendment-introduction
2017-04-06 Read second time and amended. reading-1, amendment-passage, reading-2
2017-04-17 Re-referred to Com. on JUD. referral-committee
2017-04-26 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 8. Noes 2.) (April 25). amendment-passage, committee-passage, amendment-introduction
2017-04-27 Read second time and amended. reading-1, amendment-passage, reading-2
2017-05-01 Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee
2017-05-01 Measure version as amended on April 27 corrected. amendment-passage
2017-05-17 In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to APPR. suspense file. referral-committee
2017-05-26 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 12. Noes 5.) (May 26). amendment-passage, committee-passage, amendment-introduction
2017-05-30 Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading. reading-1, amendment-passage, reading-2
2017-05-30 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
2017-05-31 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 55. Noes 21. Page 1960.) 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 Coms. on T. & H. and JUD. referral-committee
2017-06-22 In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
2017-07-17 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
2018-06-04 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
2018-06-12 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on JUD. (Ayes 11. Noes 1.) (June 12). amendment-passage, committee-passage, amendment-introduction
2018-06-13 Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on JUD. amendment-passage, reading-2, referral-committee, reading-1
2018-06-27 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 5. Noes 1.) (June 26). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee
2018-08-06 In committee: Referred to APPR. suspense file. referral-committee
2018-08-17 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 5. Noes 2.) (August 16). amendment-passage, committee-passage, amendment-introduction
2018-08-17 Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading. reading-1, amendment-passage, reading-2
2018-08-20 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
2018-08-21 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 31. Noes 7. Page 5553.). reading-3, passage, reading-1
2018-08-22 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after August 24 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
2018-08-27 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 56. Noes 23. Page 6605.). committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage
2018-09-04 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m.
2018-09-30 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
2018-09-30 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 958, Statutes of 2018.
Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/1226ef0d-5175-47ba-be3b-f3547dc7a4a3. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).