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Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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type: "Bill"
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title: "Planning and zoning: community plans: review under the California Environmental Quality Act."
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description: "The Planning and Zoning Law requires each county and city to adopt a comprehensive, long-term general plan for its physical development and the development of any land outside its boundaries that, in the planning agency's judgment, bears relation to its planning, as provided. After the legislative body has adopted a general plan, that law also authorizes, or if so directed by the legislative body, requires, the planning agency to prepare specific plans for the systematic implementation of the general plan for all or part of the area covered by the general plan, as provided."
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jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
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legislature: "California Legislature"
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session: "20192020"
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identifier: "AB 1515"
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citation: "California AB 1515 (20192020)"
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classification: ["bill"]
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subjects: ["Planning and zoning: community plans: review under the California Environmental Quality Act."]
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status: "enacted"
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primary_sponsors: ["Friedman"]
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version_count: 8
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action_count: 24
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vote_count: 7
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first_action: "2019-02-22"
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last_action: "2019-09-06"
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source: "openstates"
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source_identifier: "ocd-bill/cc5a6fe7-b13d-46ca-bab3-b1202bfef889"
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source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB1515"
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source_hash: "02eed24487a77aba8688c2977e5ba486d1a8dcc1e4320af78c605cbcd6803480"
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vintage: "2026-07-01"
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source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
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retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
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confidence: "reported"
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tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-ca"]
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---
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# California AB 1515 (20192020) — Planning and zoning: community plans: review under the California Environmental Quality Act.
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The Planning and Zoning Law requires each county and city to adopt a comprehensive, long-term general plan for its physical development and the development of any land outside its boundaries that, in the planning agency's judgment, bears relation to its planning, as provided. After the legislative body has adopted a general plan, that law also authorizes, or if so directed by the legislative body, requires, the planning agency to prepare specific plans for the systematic implementation of the general plan for all or part of the area covered by the general plan, as provided.
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## Version chain
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The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
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1. **02/22/19 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB1515&version=20190AB151599INT)
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2. **03/28/19 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB1515&version=20190AB151598AMD)
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3. **05/01/19 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB1515&version=20190AB151597AMD)
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4. **06/11/19 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB1515&version=20190AB151596AMD)
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5. **06/17/19 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB1515&version=20190AB151595AMD)
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6. **09/06/19 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB1515&version=20190AB151593CHP)
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7. **AB1515** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB1515)
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8. **08/27/19 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB1515&version=20190AB151594ENR)
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## Votes
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- AB 1515 Friedman Concurrence in Senate Amendments — **75–0** (pass) · lower
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- 3rd Reading AB1515 Friedman By Allen — **39–0** (pass) · upper
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- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Natural Resources] — **8–0** (pass) · lower
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- Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Judiciary] — **7–0** (pass) · upper
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- Do pass — **9–0** (pass) · upper
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- Do pass as amended. — **9–1** (pass) · lower
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- AB 1515 Friedman Assembly Third Reading — **73–1** (pass) · lower
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## Sponsors
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- Friedman — primary (person)
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## Timeline
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The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
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- **2019-02-22** Introduced. To print. `introduction`
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- **2019-02-23** From printer. May be heard in committee March 25.
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- **2019-02-25** Read first time. `reading-1`
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- **2019-03-28** Referred to Coms. on L. GOV. and NAT. RES. `referral-committee`
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- **2019-03-28** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on L. GOV. Read second time and amended. `reading-1, reading-2, amendment-passage, amendment-introduction`
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- **2019-04-01** Re-referred to Com. on L. GOV. `referral-committee`
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- **2019-04-25** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on NAT. RES. (Ayes 8. Noes 0.) (April 24). Re-referred to Com. on NAT. RES. `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee`
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- **2019-04-30** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 9. Noes 1.) (April 29). `amendment-passage, committee-passage, amendment-introduction`
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- **2019-05-01** Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading. `amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2`
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- **2019-05-02** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
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- **2019-05-06** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 73. Noes 1. Page 1520.) `passage, reading-3, reading-1`
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- **2019-05-06** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
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- **2019-05-16** Referred to Coms. on GOV. & F. and JUD. `referral-committee`
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- **2019-06-10** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on JUD. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (June 5). `amendment-passage, committee-passage, amendment-introduction`
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- **2019-06-11** Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on JUD. `reading-1, reading-2, amendment-passage, referral-committee`
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- **2019-06-17** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on JUD. `reading-1, reading-2, amendment-passage, referral-committee, amendment-introduction`
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- **2019-06-26** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.) (June 25). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
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- **2019-06-27** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
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- **2019-08-22** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 39. Noes 0. Page 2239.). `passage, reading-3, reading-1`
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- **2019-08-22** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after August 24 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
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- **2019-08-26** Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 75. Noes 0. Page 2837.). `amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
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- **2019-09-03** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3:30 p.m.
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- **2019-09-06** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
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- **2019-09-06** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 269, Statutes of 2019.
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## Source
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OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/cc5a6fe7-b13d-46ca-bab3-b1202bfef889`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).
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