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Bill	Planning and zoning: affordable housing: streamlined approval process.	(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. The Planning and Zoning Law requires a planning agency, after a legislative body has adopted all or part of a general plan, to provide an annual report to the legislative body, the Office of Planning and Research, and the Department of Housing and Community Development on the status of the general plan and progress in meeting the community's share of regional housing needs. Existing law requires the housing element portion of the annual report to be prepared through the use of forms and definitions adopted by the department pursuant to the Administrative Procedure Act.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20172018	SB 35	California SB 35 (20172018)	bill	Planning and zoning: affordable housing: streamlined approval process.	enacted	Wiener	14	44	1	2016-12-05	2017-09-29	openstates	ocd-bill/10c6f0a1-d775-4a79-9f98-cdcc6105d58a	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB35	0b8e10ca6e3eaca5b01066f50546e5d111ccaf27e5964772501255378618f9e5	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California SB 35 (20172018) — Planning and zoning: affordable housing: streamlined approval process.

(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. The Planning and Zoning Law requires a planning agency, after a legislative body has adopted all or part of a general plan, to provide an annual report to the legislative body, the Office of Planning and Research, and the Department of Housing and Community Development on the status of the general plan and progress in meeting the community's share of regional housing needs. Existing law requires the housing element portion of the annual report to be prepared through the use of forms and definitions adopted by the department pursuant to the Administrative Procedure Act.

Version chain

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

1. 12/05/16 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 02/21/17 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
3. 03/09/17 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
4. 03/21/17 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
5. 04/04/17 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
6. 05/26/17 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
7. 06/20/17 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
8. 07/05/17 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
9. 07/14/17 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
10. 08/29/17 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
11. 09/01/17 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
12. 09/29/17 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
13. SB35 (committee substitute) — source
14. 09/20/17 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Unfinished Business SB35 Wiener et al. Concurrence — 23–14 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Wiener — primary (person)
• Allen — coauthor (person)
• Arambula — coauthor (person)
• Atkins — principal coauthor (person)
• Bocanegra — coauthor (person)
• Bonta — coauthor (person)
• Caballero — coauthor (person)
• Gipson — coauthor (person)
• Gloria — coauthor (person)
• Grayson — coauthor (person)
• Santiago — coauthor (person)
• Vidak — coauthor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2016-12-05 Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. introduction, reading-1
• 2016-12-06 From printer. May be acted upon on or after January 5.
• 2017-01-12 Referred to Com. on RLS. referral-committee
• 2017-02-21 From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on RLS. reading-2, referral-committee, amendment-passage, committee-passage, reading-1
• 2017-02-23 Re-referred to Coms. on T. & H. and GOV. & F. referral-committee
• 2017-02-24 Set for hearing February 28.
• 2017-02-28 February 28 hearing postponed by committee.
• 2017-03-01 Set for hearing March 7.
• 2017-03-08 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on GOV. & F. (Ayes 7. Noes 3. Page 327.) (March 7). Re-referred to Com. on GOV. & F. committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2017-03-09 From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on GOV. & F. reading-2, referral-committee, amendment-passage, committee-passage, reading-1
• 2017-03-21 From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on GOV. & F. reading-2, referral-committee, amendment-passage, committee-passage, reading-1
• 2017-04-04 From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on GOV. & F. reading-2, referral-committee, amendment-passage, committee-passage, reading-1
• 2017-04-21 Set for hearing April 26.
• 2017-04-27 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on RLS. (Ayes 4. Noes 2. Page 884.) (April 26). Re-referred to Com. on RLS. committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2017-05-01 Withdrawn from committee.
• 2017-05-01 Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee
• 2017-05-04 Set for hearing May 15.
• 2017-05-11 May 15 hearing postponed by committee.
• 2017-05-16 Set for hearing May 22.
• 2017-05-22 May 22 hearing: Placed on APPR. suspense file.
• 2017-05-23 Set for hearing May 25.
• 2017-05-26 From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 5. Noes 2. Page 1176.) (May 25). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, amendment-passage
• 2017-05-26 Read second time and amended. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, amendment-passage, reading-2
• 2017-05-26 Published May 26 at 2 p.m.
• 2017-06-01 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 25. Noes 12. Page 1396.) Ordered to the Assembly. reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2017-06-01 In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. reading-1
• 2017-06-15 Referred to Coms. on L. GOV. and H. & C.D. referral-committee
• 2017-06-20 From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on L. GOV. reading-2, referral-committee, amendment-passage, committee-passage, reading-1
• 2017-07-03 From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on H. & C.D. (Ayes 6. Noes 2.) (June 28). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, amendment-passage
• 2017-07-05 Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on H. & C.D. amendment-passage, reading-2, referral-committee, reading-1
• 2017-07-12 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on RLS. (Ayes 5. Noes 1.) (July 12). Re-referred to Com. on RLS. committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2017-07-14 From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on RLS. reading-2, referral-committee, amendment-passage, committee-passage, reading-1
• 2017-08-24 Coauthors revised.
• 2017-08-29 From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on RLS. reading-2, referral-committee, amendment-passage, committee-passage, reading-1
• 2017-09-01 From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on RLS. reading-2, referral-committee, amendment-passage, committee-passage, reading-1
• 2017-09-14 Assembly Rule 63 and 96 suspended. (Ayes 53. Noes 25. Page 3417.)
• 2017-09-14 Withdrawn from committee.
• 2017-09-14 Ordered to third reading.
• 2017-09-14 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 47. Noes 27. Page 3420.) Ordered to the Senate. reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2017-09-15 In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
• 2017-09-15 Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 23. Noes 14. Page 2958.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling. committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage
• 2017-09-22 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 366, Statutes of 2017.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/10c6f0a1-d775-4a79-9f98-cdcc6105d58a. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).