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Bill	Accessory dwelling units: separate conveyance.	The Planning and Zoning Law authorizes a local agency to provide, by ordinance, for the creation of accessory dwelling units in single-family and multifamily residential zones and requires a local agency that has not adopted an ordinance to ministerially approve an application for an accessory dwelling unit, and sets forth required ordinance standards, including that the ordinance prohibit the sale or conveyance of the accessory dwelling unit separately from the primary residence.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20212022	AB 345	California AB 345 (20212022)	bill	Accessory dwelling units: separate conveyance.	enacted	Quirk-Silva	6	25	8	2021-01-28	2021-09-28	openstates	ocd-bill/d10cf7b9-e589-476c-b462-77c8e1746d15	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB345	4f97bed039f2ee2f064a729dd1b65532c998dcf484c356cc7f361db629e8a66a	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 345 (20212022) — Accessory dwelling units: separate conveyance.

The Planning and Zoning Law authorizes a local agency to provide, by ordinance, for the creation of accessory dwelling units in single-family and multifamily residential zones and requires a local agency that has not adopted an ordinance to ministerially approve an application for an accessory dwelling unit, and sets forth required ordinance standards, including that the ordinance prohibit the sale or conveyance of the accessory dwelling unit separately from the primary residence.

Version chain

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

1. 01/28/21 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 03/09/21 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 06/16/21 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
4. 09/28/21 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
5. AB345 (committee substitute) — source
6. 09/07/21 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 7–1 (pass) · lower
• Do pass. — 16–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Local Government] with recommendation: To Consent Calendar — 8–0 (pass) · lower
• AB 345 Quirk-Silva Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 75–1 (pass) · lower
• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with the recommendation: To Consent Calendar — 5–0 (pass) · upper
• AB 345 Quirk-Silva Assembly Third Reading — 76–1 (pass) · lower
• Consent Calendar AB345 — 39–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Governance and Finance] with the recommendation: To Consent Calendar — 9–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Quirk-Silva — primary (person)
• Medina — coauthor (person)
• Robert Rivas — coauthor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2021-01-28 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2021-01-29 From printer. May be heard in committee February 28.
• 2021-02-12 Referred to Coms. on H. & C.D. and L. GOV. referral-committee
• 2021-03-09 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
• 2021-03-10 Re-referred to Com. on H. & C.D. referral-committee
• 2021-03-16 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on L. GOV. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 8. Noes 0.) (March 15). Re-referred to Com. on L. GOV. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2021-03-25 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 7. Noes 1.) (March 24). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2021-04-14 In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to APPR. suspense file. referral-committee
• 2021-05-20 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 16. Noes 0.) (May 20). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2021-05-24 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2021-05-27 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 76. Noes 1. Page 1599.) passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2021-05-28 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2021-06-09 Referred to Coms. on HOUSING and GOV. & F. referral-committee
• 2021-06-16 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 GOV. & F. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.) (July 1). Re-referred to Com. on GOV. & F. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2021-07-08 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 5. Noes 0.) (July 8). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2021-08-16 From committee: Be ordered to second reading file pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8 and ordered to Consent Calendar. committee-passage, reading-2
• 2021-08-17 Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. reading-1, reading-2
• 2021-08-30 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 39. Noes 0. Page 2240.). passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2021-08-31 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after September 2 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
• 2021-09-01 Assembly Rule 77 suspended. (Ayes 58. Noes 17. Page 2625.)
• 2021-09-02 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 75. Noes 1. Page 2704.). amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2021-09-10 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.
• 2021-09-28 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2021-09-28 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 343, Statutes of 2021. became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/d10cf7b9-e589-476c-b462-77c8e1746d15. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).