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Bill	Residential development: available land.	Existing law requires each state agency to make a review of all proprietary state lands over which it has jurisdiction, subject to certain exceptions, and to report to the Department of General Services on those lands in excess of its foreseeable needs. Existing law requires the jurisdiction over lands reported excess to be transferred to the department upon request. Existing law requires the Department of General Services to report to the Legislature annually on the lands declared excess. Existing law requires a city or county to have a general plan for development with a housing element and to submit the housing element to the Department of Housing and Community Development prior to adoption or amendment. Existing law requires that the housing element include an inventory of land suitable and available to residential development, as specified.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20192020	SB 6	California SB 6 (20192020)	bill	Residential development: available land.	enacted	Beall	7	34	10	2018-12-03	2019-10-09	openstates	ocd-bill/7629035b-5359-4807-bc81-082f76f06966	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB6	9b7a2ace45ebd40e2932c0f51a856fd4ea40421ba93cf20cd0b22429bfbb74a3	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California SB 6 (20192020) — Residential development: available land.

Existing law requires each state agency to make a review of all proprietary state lands over which it has jurisdiction, subject to certain exceptions, and to report to the Department of General Services on those lands in excess of its foreseeable needs. Existing law requires the jurisdiction over lands reported excess to be transferred to the department upon request. Existing law requires the Department of General Services to report to the Legislature annually on the lands declared excess. Existing law requires a city or county to have a general plan for development with a housing element and to submit the housing element to the Department of Housing and Community Development prior to adoption or amendment. Existing law requires that the housing element include an inventory of land suitable and available to residential development, as specified.

Version chain

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

1. 12/03/18 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 02/27/19 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
3. 04/23/19 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
4. 09/06/19 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
5. 10/09/19 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
6. SB6 (committee substitute) — source
7. 09/13/19 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Accountability and Administrative Review] — 8–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Governmental Organization] with the recommendation: To Consent Calendar — 11–0 (pass) · upper
• Unfinished Business SB6 Beall et al. Concurrence — 40–0 (pass) · upper
• SB 6 Beall Senate Third Reading By Ting — 79–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 6–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with the recommendation: To Consent Calendar — 16–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass — 6–0 (pass) · upper
• 3rd Reading SB6 Beall et al. — 38–0 (pass) · upper
• Placed on suspense file — 6–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass. — 18–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Beall — primary (person)
• Chiu — coauthor (person)
• McGuire — author (person)

Timeline

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

• 2018-12-03 Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. introduction, reading-1
• 2018-12-04 From printer. May be acted upon on or after January 3.
• 2019-01-16 Referred to Com. on RLS. referral-committee
• 2019-02-27 From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on RLS. reading-1, reading-2, amendment-passage, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2019-03-07 Re-referred to Coms. on HOUSING and G.O. referral-committee
• 2019-03-15 Set for hearing April 2.
• 2019-04-03 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on G.O. with recommendation: To consent calendar. (Ayes 11. Noes 0. Page 551.) (April 2). Re-referred to Com. on G.O. committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2019-04-05 Set for hearing April 9.
• 2019-04-09 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To consent calendar. (Ayes 16. Noes 0. Page 619.) (April 9). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2019-04-11 Set for hearing April 22.
• 2019-04-17 April 22 hearing postponed by committee.
• 2019-04-18 Set for hearing April 29.
• 2019-04-23 From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. reading-1, reading-2, amendment-passage, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2019-04-29 April 29 hearing: Placed on APPR. suspense file.
• 2019-05-10 Set for hearing May 16.
• 2019-05-16 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 6. Noes 0. Page 1086.) (May 16). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2019-05-16 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2019-05-20 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 38. Noes 0. Page 1162.) Ordered to the Assembly. passage, reading-3, reading-1
• 2019-05-21 In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. reading-1
• 2019-05-30 Referred to Coms. on H. & C.D. and A. & A.R. referral-committee
• 2019-06-20 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on A. & A.R. (Ayes 8. Noes 0.) (June 19). Re-referred to Com. on A. & A.R. committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2019-07-03 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 6. Noes 0.) (July 3). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2019-08-14 August 14 set for first hearing. Placed on APPR. suspense file.
• 2019-08-30 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 18. Noes 0.) (August 30). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2019-09-03 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2019-09-06 Read third time and amended. amendment-passage, reading-3, reading-1
• 2019-09-06 Ordered to third reading.
• 2019-09-10 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 79. Noes 0. Page 3260.) Ordered to the Senate. passage, reading-3, reading-1
• 2019-09-10 In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
• 2019-09-11 Ordered to special consent calendar.
• 2019-09-11 Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 40. Noes 0. Page 2865.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling. amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2019-09-18 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.
• 2019-10-09 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2019-10-09 Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 667, Statutes of 2019.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/7629035b-5359-4807-bc81-082f76f06966. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).