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Bill	General plans: housing element: moderate-income and above moderate-income housing: suburban and metropolitan jurisdictions.	The Planning and Zoning Law requires a city or county to adopt a general plan for its jurisdiction that contains certain mandatory elements, including a housing element. That law requires that the housing element include, among other things, an inventory of land suitable for residential development, to be used to identify sites that can be developed for housing within the planning period and that are sufficient to provide for the jurisdiction's share of the regional housing need determined pursuant to specified law.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20192020	AB 725	California AB 725 (20192020)	bill	General plans: housing element: moderate-income and above moderate-income housing: suburban and metropolitan jurisdictions.	enacted	Wicks	9	32	9	2019-02-19	2020-09-28	openstates	ocd-bill/c45065f0-a0c6-45bd-bde3-53a61e165eb0	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB725	d82fa4c1240465d531fb46b9be90379a30120b49e1bf0b44a2ad37b1666fb304	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 725 (20192020) — General plans: housing element: moderate-income and above moderate-income housing: suburban and metropolitan jurisdictions.

The Planning and Zoning Law requires a city or county to adopt a general plan for its jurisdiction that contains certain mandatory elements, including a housing element. That law requires that the housing element include, among other things, an inventory of land suitable for residential development, to be used to identify sites that can be developed for housing within the planning period and that are sufficient to provide for the jurisdiction's share of the regional housing need determined pursuant to specified law.

Version chain

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

1. 02/19/19 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 01/06/20 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 01/16/20 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
4. 04/02/19 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
5. 07/21/20 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
6. 08/20/20 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
7. 09/28/20 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
8. AB725 (committee substitute) — source
9. 09/01/20 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do pass. — 11–6 (pass) · lower
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Local Government] — 7–0 (pass) · lower
• AB 725 Wicks Assembly Third Reading — 48–22 (pass) · lower
• Placed on suspense file — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• 3rd Reading AB725 Wicks et al. By Skinner — 23–14 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 5–3 (pass) · lower
• AB 725 Wicks Concurrence in Senate Amendments By RIVAS, R. — 46–22 (pass) · lower
• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 8–3 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended — 5–2 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Wicks — primary (person)
• Skinner — coauthor (person)
• Wiener — coauthor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2019-02-19 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2019-02-20 From printer. May be heard in committee March 22.
• 2019-02-28 Referred to Coms. on H. & C.D. and L. GOV. referral-committee
• 2019-03-26 In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
• 2019-04-02 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
• 2019-04-03 Re-referred to Com. on H. & C.D. referral-committee
• 2019-04-10 In committee: Set, second hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
• 2020-01-06 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
• 2020-01-07 Re-referred to Com. on H. & C.D. referral-committee
• 2020-01-09 Assembly Rule 56 suspended. (Page 3769.)
• 2020-01-09 (pending re-refer to Com. on L. GOV.)
• 2020-01-15 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on L. GOV. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (January 15). Re-referred to Com. on L. GOV. committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2020-01-15 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 5. Noes 3.) (January 15). amendment-passage, committee-passage, amendment-introduction
• 2020-01-16 Read second time and amended. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
• 2020-01-17 Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee
• 2020-01-23 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 11. Noes 6.) (January 23). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2020-01-23 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2020-01-30 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 48. Noes 22. Page 3936.) passage, reading-3, reading-1
• 2020-01-30 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2020-06-23 Referred to Com. on HOUSING. referral-committee
• 2020-07-21 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on HOUSING. reading-1, reading-2, amendment-passage, referral-committee, amendment-introduction
• 2020-08-07 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 8. Noes 3.) (August 6). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2020-08-13 In committee: Referred to APPR. suspense file. referral-committee
• 2020-08-20 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 5. Noes 2.) (August 20). amendment-passage, committee-passage, amendment-introduction
• 2020-08-20 Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
• 2020-08-24 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2020-08-29 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 23. Noes 14. Page 4431.). passage, reading-3, reading-1
• 2020-08-29 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending.
• 2020-08-30 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 46. Noes 22. Page 5362.). amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2020-09-08 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4:30 p.m.
• 2020-09-28 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2020-09-28 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 193, Statutes of 2020.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/c45065f0-a0c6-45bd-bde3-53a61e165eb0. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).