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Bill	Accessory dwelling units: incentives.	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 incentives intended to facilitate and expedite the construction of affordable housing. Existing law authorizes a local agency to provide, by ordinance, for the creation of accessory dwelling units in single-family and multifamily residential zones and sets forth standards the ordinance is required to impose on accessory dwelling units.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20192020	AB 671	California AB 671 (20192020)	bill	Accessory dwelling units: incentives.	enacted	Friedman	7	27	9	2019-02-15	2019-10-09	openstates	ocd-bill/1163935b-6685-41a5-bc43-80295d5f4327	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB671	73331b2abc4ed95979754c270d3333272987b0e228bbe1d8838c6751bf85d93b	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 671 (20192020) — Accessory dwelling units: incentives.

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 incentives intended to facilitate and expedite the construction of affordable housing. Existing law authorizes a local agency to provide, by ordinance, for the creation of accessory dwelling units in single-family and multifamily residential zones and sets forth standards the ordinance is required to impose on accessory dwelling units.

Version chain

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

1. 02/15/19 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 03/26/19 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 06/20/19 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
4. 09/06/19 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
5. 10/09/19 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
6. AB671 (committee substitute) — source
7. 09/16/19 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 8–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• 3rd Reading AB671 Friedman By Beall — 40–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Local Government] — 8–0 (pass) · lower
• Placed on suspense file — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• AB 671 Friedman Assembly Third Reading — 76–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass. — 18–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 10–0 (pass) · upper
• AB 671 Friedman Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 78–1 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Friedman — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2019-02-15 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2019-02-19 From printer. May be heard in committee March 21.
• 2019-03-25 Referred to Coms. on H. & C.D. and L. GOV. referral-committee
• 2019-03-26 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
• 2019-03-27 Re-referred to Com. on H. & C.D. referral-committee
• 2019-04-10 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on L. GOV. (Ayes 8. Noes 0.) (April 10). Re-referred to Com. on L. GOV. committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2019-04-25 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 8. Noes 0.) (April 24). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2019-05-08 In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to APPR. suspense file. referral-committee
• 2019-05-16 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 18. Noes 0.) (May 16). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2019-05-20 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2019-05-22 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 76. Noes 0. Page 1813.) passage, reading-3, reading-1
• 2019-05-23 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2019-05-29 Referred to Com. on HOUSING. referral-committee
• 2019-06-19 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 10. Noes 0.) (June 18). amendment-passage, committee-passage, amendment-introduction
• 2019-06-20 Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. reading-1, reading-2, amendment-passage, referral-committee
• 2019-07-01 In committee: Referred to APPR. suspense file. referral-committee
• 2019-08-30 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (August 30). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2019-08-30 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2019-09-06 Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-3, reading-1
• 2019-09-09 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2019-09-10 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 40. Noes 0. Page 2742.). passage, reading-3, reading-1
• 2019-09-10 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after September 12 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
• 2019-09-11 Assembly Rule 77 suspended. (Page 3370.)
• 2019-09-11 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 78. Noes 1. Page 3398.). amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2019-09-23 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3:30 p.m.
• 2019-10-09 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2019-10-09 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 658, Statutes of 2019.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/1163935b-6685-41a5-bc43-80295d5f4327. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).