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Bill	Planning and zoning: housing element and entitlement extensions.	The Planning and Zoning Law requires a city or county to adopt a general plan for land use and development within its boundaries that includes, among other things, a housing element. The housing element is required to include an analysis of potential and actual governmental constraints upon the maintenance, improvement, or development of housing for all income levels and for persons with disabilities, as provided.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20192020	AB 1561	California AB 1561 (20192020)	bill	Planning and zoning: housing element and entitlement extensions.	enacted	Cristina Garcia	9	45	9	2019-02-22	2020-09-28	openstates	ocd-bill/64b65f1c-9d3e-47c7-82b2-3a8de0e5d812	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB1561	eee42b11f7760475ed9d8a07bfd577d15daad5c8c464df7efe57f96f873883bc	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 1561 (20192020) — Planning and zoning: housing element and entitlement extensions.

The Planning and Zoning Law requires a city or county to adopt a general plan for land use and development within its boundaries that includes, among other things, a housing element. The housing element is required to include an analysis of potential and actual governmental constraints upon the maintenance, improvement, or development of housing for all income levels and for persons with disabilities, as provided.

Version chain

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

1. 02/22/19 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 04/11/19 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 04/29/19 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
4. 06/23/20 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
5. 08/25/20 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
6. 09/06/19 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
7. 09/28/20 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
8. AB1561 (committee substitute) — source
9. 09/04/20 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• 3rd Reading AB1561 Cristina Garcia et a By Wiener — 39–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Judiciary] — 8–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Judiciary] — 8–0 (pass) · upper
• AB 1561 Cristina Garcia Consent Calendar Second Day — 74–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 12–0 (pass) · lower
• AB 1561 GARCIA, C. Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 74–1 (pass) · lower
• Do pass. To Consent Calendar. — 18–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• With recommendation: That Senate amendments be concurred in. — 8–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Cristina Garcia — primary (person)
• Aguiar-Curry — principal coauthor (person)
• Grayson — author (person)

Timeline

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

• 2019-02-22 Introduced. To print. introduction
• 2019-02-23 From printer. May be heard in committee March 25.
• 2019-02-25 Read first time. reading-1
• 2019-03-14 Referred to Coms. on H. & C.D. and JUD. referral-committee
• 2019-04-10 In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
• 2019-04-11 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on H. & C.D. Read second time and amended. reading-1, reading-2, amendment-passage, amendment-introduction
• 2019-04-22 Re-referred to Com. on H. & C.D. referral-committee
• 2019-04-22 Joint Rule 62(a), file notice suspended. (Page 1238.)
• 2019-04-22 Assembly Rule 56 suspended. (Page 1238.)
• 2019-04-22 (pending re-referral to Com. on JUD.)
• 2019-04-25 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on JUD. (Ayes 8. Noes 0.) (April 24). Re-referred to Com. on JUD. committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2019-04-25 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 12. Noes 0.) (April 25). amendment-passage, committee-passage, amendment-introduction
• 2019-04-29 Read second time and amended. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
• 2019-04-30 Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee
• 2019-05-08 From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 18. Noes 0.) (May 8). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2019-05-09 Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. reading-1, reading-2
• 2019-05-16 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 74. Noes 0. Page 1772.) passage, reading-3, reading-1
• 2019-05-16 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2019-05-29 Referred to Coms. on HOUSING and JUD. referral-committee
• 2019-06-19 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on JUD. (Ayes 8. Noes 0.) (June 18). Re-referred to Com. on JUD. committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2019-07-03 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (July 2). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2019-08-12 From committee: Be ordered to second reading pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8. committee-passage, reading-2
• 2019-08-13 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2019-09-03 Ordered to inactive file at the request of Senator Hertzberg.
• 2019-09-06 From inactive file.
• 2019-09-06 Ordered to second reading.
• 2019-09-06 Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
• 2019-09-09 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2019-09-09 Re-referred to Com. on RLS. pursuant to Senate Rule 29.10(c). referral-committee
• 2020-06-23 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on RLS. reading-1, reading-2, amendment-passage, referral-committee, amendment-introduction
• 2020-06-24 Withdrawn from committee.
• 2020-06-24 Ordered to second reading.
• 2020-06-25 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2020-08-25 Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-3, reading-1
• 2020-08-26 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2020-08-30 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 39. Noes 0.). passage, reading-3, reading-1
• 2020-08-30 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending.
• 2020-08-30 Re-referred to Com. on H. & C.D. pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.2. referral-committee
• 2020-08-31 Joint Rule 62(a), file notice suspended. (Page 5456.)
• 2020-08-31 From committee: That the Senate amendments be concurred in. (Ayes 8. Noes 0.) (August 31). committee-passage
• 2020-08-31 Assembly Rule 63 suspended. (Ayes 57. Noes 16. Page 5498.)
• 2020-08-31 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 74. Noes 1. Page 5503.). amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2020-09-14 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.
• 2020-09-28 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2020-09-28 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 195, Statutes of 2020.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/64b65f1c-9d3e-47c7-82b2-3a8de0e5d812. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).