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Bill	Housing Omnibus.	(1) The Planning and Zoning Law requires each city, county, and city and county to prepare and adopt a general plan that contains certain mandatory elements, including a housing element. Existing law, until December 31, 2028, requires the housing element to contain, among other components, an inventory of land suitable for residential development, which includes, among other things, residentially zoned sites that are capable of being developed at a higher density, including the airspace above sites owned or leased by a city, county, or city and county, as specified.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20192020	AB 957	California AB 957 (20192020)	bill	Housing Omnibus.	enacted	Committee on Housing and Community Development	6	23	6	2019-02-21	2019-10-08	openstates	ocd-bill/6dee6d4a-4c61-4795-9618-2ab17c90d432	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB957	6f2ede86a50a56d4703472aa24dc80b496679d5fb237ae01963ba6a5d2a489a6	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 957 (20192020) — Housing Omnibus.

(1) The Planning and Zoning Law requires each city, county, and city and county to prepare and adopt a general plan that contains certain mandatory elements, including a housing element. Existing law, until December 31, 2028, requires the housing element to contain, among other components, an inventory of land suitable for residential development, which includes, among other things, residentially zoned sites that are capable of being developed at a higher density, including the airspace above sites owned or leased by a city, county, or city and county, as specified.

Version chain

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

1. 02/21/19 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 04/22/19 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 07/09/19 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
4. 10/08/19 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
5. AB957 (committee substitute) — source
6. 09/11/19 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Appropriations] with the recommendation: To Consent Calendar — 11–0 (pass) · upper
• 3rd Reading AB957 H. & C.D. (Chiu) By Wiener Urgency Clause — 39–0 (pass) · upper
• AB 957 H. & C.D. Consent Calendar Second Day — 74–0 (pass) · lower
• AB 957 H. & C.D. Concurrence - Urgency Added By CHIU — 79–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with recommendation: To Consent Calendar — 8–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass. To Consent Calendar. — 18–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Committee on Housing and Community Development — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2019-02-21 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2019-02-22 From printer. May be heard in committee March 24.
• 2019-03-04 Referred to Com. on H. & C.D. referral-committee
• 2019-04-22 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
• 2019-04-23 Re-referred to Com. on H. & C.D. referral-committee
• 2019-04-25 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 8. Noes 0.) (April 24). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, 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 1770.) 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 Com. on HOUSING. referral-committee
• 2019-07-08 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 11. Noes 0.) (July 2). amendment-passage, committee-passage, amendment-introduction
• 2019-07-09 Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. reading-1, reading-2, amendment-passage, referral-committee
• 2019-08-12 From committee: Be ordered to second reading file pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8 and ordered to Consent Calendar. committee-passage, reading-2
• 2019-08-13 Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. reading-1, reading-2
• 2019-08-15 From Consent Calendar.
• 2019-08-15 Ordered to third reading.
• 2019-08-26 Read third time. Urgency clause adopted. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 39. Noes 0. Page 2286.). passage, reading-3, reading-1
• 2019-08-27 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after August 29 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
• 2019-09-09 Urgency clause adopted. Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 79. Noes 0. Page 3090.). amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2019-09-13 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3:30 p.m.
• 2019-10-08 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2019-10-08 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 620, Statutes of 2019.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/6dee6d4a-4c61-4795-9618-2ab17c90d432. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).