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Bill	Planning and zoning: housing sustainability districts.	(1) The Planning and Zoning Law requires a city or county to adopt a general plan for land use development within its boundaries that includes, among other things, a housing element. Existing law provides for various reforms and incentives intended to facilitate and expedite the construction of affordable housing.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20172018	AB 73	California AB 73 (20172018)	bill	Planning and zoning: housing sustainability districts.	enacted	Chiu	8	31	10	2016-12-16	2017-09-29	openstates	ocd-bill/b1ebb77c-bc73-4dfc-822e-1dcc27b09cc0	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB73	491909756de0643f2065aadcda07f708b4b918733cea40622b9f54b0d1331656	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 73 (20172018) — Planning and zoning: housing sustainability districts.

(1) The Planning and Zoning Law requires a city or county to adopt a general plan for land use development within its boundaries that includes, among other things, a housing element. Existing law provides for various reforms and incentives intended to facilitate and expedite the construction of affordable housing.

Version chain

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

1. 12/16/16 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 03/28/17 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 05/02/17 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
4. 06/19/17 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
5. 07/13/17 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
6. 09/29/17 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
7. AB73 (committee substitute) — source
8. 09/19/17 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• AB 73 CHIU Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 54–23 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 7–1 (pass) · lower
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Natural Resources] — 5–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass — 5–2 (pass) · upper
• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Environmental Quality] — 8–3 (pass) · upper
• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 5–2 (pass) · upper
• 3rd Reading AB73 Chiu et al. By Roth — 25–10 (pass) · upper
• Do pass. — 12–5 (pass) · lower
• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Governance and Finance] — 4–2 (pass) · upper
• AB 73 CHIU Assembly Third Reading — 56–20 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Chiu — primary (person)
• Berman — coauthor (person)
• Bonta — author (person)
• Caballero — author (person)
• Gloria — coauthor (person)
• Kalra — author (person)
• Mullin — coauthor (person)
• Santiago — coauthor (person)
• Ting — coauthor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2016-12-16 Introduced. To print. introduction
• 2016-12-19 From printer. May be heard in committee January 18.
• 2017-01-04 Read first time. reading-1
• 2017-01-19 Referred to Coms. on L. GOV. and NAT. RES. referral-committee
• 2017-02-09 Coauthors revised.
• 2017-03-28 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
• 2017-03-29 Re-referred to Com. on L. GOV. referral-committee
• 2017-04-06 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on NAT. RES. (Ayes 5. Noes 0.) (April 5). Re-referred to Com. on NAT. RES. committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2017-05-01 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 7. Noes 1.) (April 24). amendment-passage, committee-passage, amendment-introduction
• 2017-05-02 Read second time and amended. reading-1, amendment-passage, reading-2
• 2017-05-03 Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee
• 2017-05-17 In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to APPR. suspense file. referral-committee
• 2017-05-26 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 12. Noes 5.) (May 26). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2017-05-30 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2017-06-01 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 56. Noes 20. Page 2054.) reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2017-06-05 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2017-06-14 Referred to Coms. on T. & H., EQ. and GOV. & F. referral-committee
• 2017-06-19 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
• 2017-06-28 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on EQ. (Ayes 8. Noes 3.) (June 27). Re-referred to Com. on EQ. committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2017-07-06 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on GOV. & F. (Ayes 4. Noes 2.) (July 5). Re-referred to Com. on GOV. & F. committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2017-07-12 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 5. Noes 2.) (July 12). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. 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 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
• 2017-09-15 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 25. Noes 10. Page 2956.). 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 54. Noes 23. Page 3507.). 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 371, Statutes of 2017.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/b1ebb77c-bc73-4dfc-822e-1dcc27b09cc0. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).