republic-os/legislation/us/states/ca/20212022/ab-2097.md

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Bill	Residential, commercial, or other development types: parking requirements.	The Planning and Zoning Law requires each county and city to adopt a comprehensive, long-term general plan for its physical development, and the development of certain lands outside its boundaries, that includes, among other mandatory elements, a land use element, and a conservation element. Existing law also authorizes the legislative body of a city or a county to adopt ordinances establishing requirements for parking, and permits variances to be granted from the parking requirements of a zoning ordinance for nonresidential development if the variance will be an incentive to the development and the variance will facilitate access to the development by patrons of public transit facilities.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20212022	AB 2097	California AB 2097 (20212022)	bill	Residential commercial or other development types: parking requirements.	enacted	Friedman	9	28	10	2022-02-14	2022-09-22	openstates	ocd-bill/7b3c09c1-b2a4-48f3-92b5-ac46a0ef8075	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB2097	1d81b57c48700ce0ead1d410f0f5e34ebe0fe09cd7e1cb34ef4ac582998fcd59	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 2097 (20212022) — Residential, commercial, or other development types: parking requirements.

The Planning and Zoning Law requires each county and city to adopt a comprehensive, long-term general plan for its physical development, and the development of certain lands outside its boundaries, that includes, among other mandatory elements, a land use element, and a conservation element. Existing law also authorizes the legislative body of a city or a county to adopt ordinances establishing requirements for parking, and permits variances to be granted from the parking requirements of a zoning ordinance for nonresidential development if the variance will be an incentive to the development and the variance will facilitate access to the development by patrons of public transit facilities.

Version chain

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

1. 02/14/22 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 05/19/22 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 06/09/22 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
4. 06/23/22 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
5. 08/16/22 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
6. 08/24/22 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
7. 09/22/22 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
8. AB2097 (committee substitute) — source
9. 09/01/22 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• AB 2097 Friedman Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 52–17 (pass) · lower
• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Housing] — 5–0 (pass) · upper
• 3rd Reading AB2097 Friedman et al. By Skinner — 26–9 (pass) · upper
• Do pass. — 13–3 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended — 5–2 (pass) · upper
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 6–1 (pass) · lower
• AB 2097 Friedman Assembly Third Reading — 47–20 (pass) · lower
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Housing and Community Development] — 6–2 (pass) · lower
• Placed on suspense file — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 6–1 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Friedman — primary (person)
• Haney — coauthor (person)
• Lee — coauthor (person)
• Portantino — principal coauthor (person)
• Skinner — coauthor (person)
• Ward — coauthor (person)
• Wiener — coauthor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2022-02-14 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2022-02-15 From printer. May be heard in committee March 17.
• 2022-02-24 Referred to Coms. on L. GOV. and H. & C.D. referral-committee
• 2022-04-20 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on H. & C.D. (Ayes 6. Noes 2.) (April 20). Re-referred to Com. on H. & C.D. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2022-04-28 Coauthors revised.
• 2022-04-28 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 6. Noes 1.) (April 27). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2022-05-11 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 13. Noes 3.) (May 11). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2022-05-12 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2022-05-19 Read third time and amended. Ordered to third reading. (Page 4738.) amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2022-05-26 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 47. Noes 20.) passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2022-05-27 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2022-06-08 Referred to Coms. on GOV. & F. and HOUSING. referral-committee
• 2022-06-09 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on GOV. & F. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee
• 2022-06-15 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on HOUSING. (Ayes 5. Noes 0.) (June 15). Re-referred to Com. on HOUSING. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2022-06-22 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 6. Noes 1.) (June 21). amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2022-06-23 Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee
• 2022-07-27 In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
• 2022-08-08 In committee: Referred to suspense file. referral-committee
• 2022-08-15 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 5. Noes 2.) (August 11). amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage
• 2022-08-16 Read second time and amended. Ordered to third reading. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
• 2022-08-24 Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2022-08-25 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2022-08-29 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 26. Noes 9. Page 5199.). passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2022-08-29 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending.
• 2022-08-30 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 52. Noes 17.). amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2022-09-12 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.
• 2022-09-22 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2022-09-22 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 459, Statutes of 2022. became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/7b3c09c1-b2a4-48f3-92b5-ac46a0ef8075. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).