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Bill	Planning and zoning: housing element: rezoning of sites: prohousing local policies.	(1) Existing law, the Planning and Zoning Law, requires a county and city to adopt a comprehensive, long-term general plan for the physical development of the county or city, and specified land outside its boundaries, that includes, among other things, a housing element. Existing law requires the county or city to submit its proposed and adopted housing element and any amendment of its housing element to the Department of Housing and Community Development, and requires the department to determine whether that housing element or amendment substantially complies with specified law, as provided.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20212022	AB 1398	California AB 1398 (20212022)	bill	Planning and zoning: housing element: rezoning of sites: prohousing local policies.	enacted	Bloom	9	29	7	2021-02-19	2021-09-28	openstates	ocd-bill/3a4dbebc-459c-479b-b9ab-3845152caad8	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB1398	0ce8102769718c404da476928f6168924db687751e6fa4506ca070f0361badf0	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 1398 (20212022) — Planning and zoning: housing element: rezoning of sites: prohousing local policies.

(1) Existing law, the Planning and Zoning Law, requires a county and city to adopt a comprehensive, long-term general plan for the physical development of the county or city, and specified land outside its boundaries, that includes, among other things, a housing element. Existing law requires the county or city to submit its proposed and adopted housing element and any amendment of its housing element to the Department of Housing and Community Development, and requires the department to determine whether that housing element or amendment substantially complies with specified law, as provided.

Version chain

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

1. 02/19/21 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 03/25/21 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 04/06/21 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
4. 05/03/21 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
5. 07/05/21 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
6. 09/03/21 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
7. 09/28/21 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
8. AB1398 (committee substitute) — source
9. 09/14/21 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• 3rd Reading AB1398 Bloom By Wiener — 27–9 (pass) · upper
• AB 1398 Bloom Assembly Third Reading — 55–19 (pass) · lower
• Do pass. — 11–4 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 7–2 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 5–1 (pass) · lower
• AB 1398 Bloom Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 55–20 (pass) · lower
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Local Government] — 6–2 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Bloom — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2021-02-19 Introduced. To print. introduction
• 2021-02-20 From printer. May be heard in committee March 22.
• 2021-02-22 Read first time. reading-1
• 2021-03-25 Referred to Coms. on H. & C.D. and L. GOV. referral-committee
• 2021-03-25 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on H. & C.D. Read second time and amended. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
• 2021-03-26 Re-referred to Com. on H. & C.D. referral-committee
• 2021-04-06 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on H. & C.D. Read second time and amended. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
• 2021-04-07 Re-referred to Com. on H. & C.D. referral-committee
• 2021-04-19 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on L. GOV. (Ayes 6. Noes 2.) (April 15). Re-referred to Com. on L. GOV. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2021-04-29 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 5. Noes 1.) (April 28). amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2021-05-03 Read second time and amended. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
• 2021-05-04 Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee
• 2021-05-19 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 11. Noes 4.) (May 19). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2021-05-20 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2021-06-02 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 55. Noes 19. Page 1815.) passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2021-06-03 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2021-06-09 Referred to Com. on HOUSING. referral-committee
• 2021-07-01 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 7. Noes 2.) (July 1). amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2021-07-05 Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee
• 2021-07-15 From committee: Be ordered to second reading pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8. committee-passage, reading-2
• 2021-08-16 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2021-09-03 Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2021-09-07 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2021-09-08 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 27. Noes 9. Page 2529.). passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2021-09-08 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending.
• 2021-09-09 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 55. Noes 20. Page 3044.). amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2021-09-20 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m.
• 2021-09-28 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2021-09-28 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 358, Statutes of 2021. became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/3a4dbebc-459c-479b-b9ab-3845152caad8. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).