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Bill	Planning and zoning: housing element: converted affordable housing units.	Existing law, the Planning and Zoning Law, requires each city, county, and city and county to prepare and adopt a general plan that contains certain mandatory elements, including a housing element. Existing law requires that the housing element include, among other things, an assessment of housing needs and an inventory of resources and constraints relevant to meeting those needs. Existing law requires the Department of Housing and Community Development, in consultation with each council of governments, to determine each region's existing and projected housing need and requires each council of governments, or the department for cities and counties without a council of governments, to adopt a final regional housing need plan that allocates a share of the regional housing need to each city, county, or city and county, as provided.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20212022	AB 787	California AB 787 (20212022)	bill	Planning and zoning: housing element: converted affordable housing units.	enacted	Gabriel	9	31	9	2021-02-16	2021-09-28	openstates	ocd-bill/c9cd4a7a-98a0-4279-bd2b-ccccdb58fa3c	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB787	370364df654edaef53441e50666dba09d0932112a8f5d8c24c00cfce962acbb7	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 787 (20212022) — Planning and zoning: housing element: converted affordable housing units.

Existing law, the Planning and Zoning Law, requires each city, county, and city and county to prepare and adopt a general plan that contains certain mandatory elements, including a housing element. Existing law requires that the housing element include, among other things, an assessment of housing needs and an inventory of resources and constraints relevant to meeting those needs. Existing law requires the Department of Housing and Community Development, in consultation with each council of governments, to determine each region's existing and projected housing need and requires each council of governments, or the department for cities and counties without a council of governments, to adopt a final regional housing need plan that allocates a share of the regional housing need to each city, county, or city and county, as provided.

Version chain

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

1. 02/16/21 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 03/18/21 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 04/20/21 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
4. 05/03/21 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
5. 08/26/21 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
6. 08/31/21 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
7. 09/28/21 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
8. AB787 (committee substitute) — source
9. 09/13/21 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Special Consent AB787 — 38–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with the recommendation: To Consent Calendar — 9–0 (pass) · upper
• AB 787 Gabriel Assembly Third Reading — 78–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass. — 16–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on [Local Government] — 8–0 (pass) · lower
• Placed on suspense file — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 8–0 (pass) · lower
• AB 787 Gabriel Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 79–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended — 7–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Gabriel — primary (person)
• Portantino — coauthor (person)
• Stern — coauthor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2021-02-16 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2021-02-17 From printer. May be heard in committee March 19.
• 2021-03-18 Referred to Coms. on H. & C.D. and L. GOV. referral-committee
• 2021-03-18 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
• 2021-03-22 Re-referred to Com. on H. & C.D. referral-committee
• 2021-04-19 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on L. GOV. (Ayes 8. Noes 0.) (April 15). amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2021-04-20 Read second time and amended. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
• 2021-04-21 Re-referred to Com. on L. GOV. referral-committee
• 2021-04-29 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 8. Noes 0.) (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
• 2021-05-12 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 78. Noes 0. Page 1609.) 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 Com. on HOUSING. referral-committee
• 2021-07-08 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.) (July 8). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2021-08-16 In committee: Referred to suspense file. referral-committee
• 2021-08-26 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (August 26). amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage
• 2021-08-26 Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
• 2021-08-30 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2021-08-31 Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2021-09-01 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2021-09-03 Ordered to special consent calendar.
• 2021-09-08 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 38. Noes 0. Page 2489.). 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 79. Noes 0. Page 3007.). 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 350, Statutes of 2021. became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/c9cd4a7a-98a0-4279-bd2b-ccccdb58fa3c. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).