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Bill	Planning and Zoning Law: housing element: violations.	(1) Existing law, the Planning and Zoning Law, requires a city or county to adopt a general plan for land use development within its boundaries that includes, among other things, a housing element. That law requires a planning agency, before adopting its housing element or amendment to its housing element, to submit a draft element or draft amendment to the Department of Housing and Community Development.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20212022	AB 215	California AB 215 (20212022)	bill	Planning and Zoning Law: housing element: violations.	enacted	Chiu	9	31	9	2021-01-11	2021-09-28	openstates	ocd-bill/aa850d4c-a7c3-4a83-9751-83743775f1b4	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB215	ba1c6168d6c2bb47fd1fdf04c336156b0cde9c359ae0e86173e40fa79d510042	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 215 (20212022) — Planning and Zoning Law: housing element: violations.

(1) Existing law, the Planning and Zoning Law, requires a city or county to adopt a general plan for land use development within its boundaries that includes, among other things, a housing element. That law requires a planning agency, before adopting its housing element or amendment to its housing element, to submit a draft element or draft amendment to the Department of Housing and Community Development.

Version chain

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

1. 01/11/21 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 04/05/21 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 06/23/21 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
4. 07/16/21 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
5. 08/16/21 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
6. 08/30/21 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
7. 09/28/21 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
8. AB215 (committee substitute) — source
9. 09/15/21 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Local Government] — 5–0 (pass) · lower
• AB 215 Chiu Assembly Third Reading — 58–11 (pass) · lower
• AB 215 CHIU Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 60–5 (pass) · lower
• 3rd Reading AB215 Chiu By Wiener — 22–9 (pass) · upper
• Do pass. — 12–4 (pass) · lower
• Placed on suspense file — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass — 4–2 (pass) · upper
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 7–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 5–2 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Chiu — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2021-01-11 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2021-01-12 From printer. May be heard in committee February 11.
• 2021-01-28 Referred to Coms. on H. & C.D. and L. GOV. referral-committee
• 2021-04-05 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
• 2021-04-06 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 5. Noes 0.) (April 15). Re-referred to Com. on L. GOV. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2021-04-29 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (April 28). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2021-05-12 In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to APPR. suspense file. referral-committee
• 2021-05-20 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 12. Noes 4.) (May 20). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2021-05-24 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2021-06-01 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 58. Noes 11. Page 1722.) passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2021-06-02 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2021-06-09 Referred to Com. on HOUSING. referral-committee
• 2021-06-23 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on HOUSING. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee
• 2021-07-01 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 5. Noes 2.) (July 1). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2021-07-12 In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
• 2021-07-16 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on APPR. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee
• 2021-08-16 In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
• 2021-08-16 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on APPR. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee
• 2021-08-23 In committee: Referred to suspense file. referral-committee
• 2021-08-26 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 4. Noes 2.) (August 26). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2021-08-26 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2021-08-30 Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2021-08-31 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2021-09-10 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 22. Noes 9. Page 2631.). passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2021-09-10 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending.
• 2021-09-10 Assembly Rule 63 suspended. (Page 3161.)
• 2021-09-10 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 60. Noes 5. Page 3161.). amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2021-09-22 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 2 p.m.
• 2021-09-28 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2021-09-28 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 342, Statutes of 2021. became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/aa850d4c-a7c3-4a83-9751-83743775f1b4. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).