republic-os/legislation/us/states/ca/20212022/ab-970.md

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Bill	Planning and zoning: electric vehicle charging stations: permit application: approval.	Existing law requires a city, county, or city and county to administratively approve an application to install an electric vehicle charging station through the issuance of a building permit or similar nondiscretionary permit subject to a limited review by the building official of that city, county, or city and county. Existing law allows the building official to require the applicant to apply for a use permit if the official finds that the station could have a specific adverse impact upon the public health or safety and prohibits the city, county, or city and county from denying the application for a use permit to install an electric vehicle charging station unless it makes written findings that the proposed installation would have a specific, adverse impact upon the public health or safety, and there is no feasible method to satisfactorily mitigate or avoid the specific, adverse impact.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20212022	AB 970	California AB 970 (20212022)	bill	Planning and zoning: electric vehicle charging stations: permit application: approval.	enacted	McCarty	7	19	5	2021-02-18	2021-10-08	openstates	ocd-bill/4a7bdacf-1496-4d6c-9a73-287e602f4d65	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB970	334b371ab1883e2c2172962fe3c9c88e02a9f1295bc3a3f3754a8fa4cfe5f4bf	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 970 (20212022) — Planning and zoning: electric vehicle charging stations: permit application: approval.

Existing law requires a city, county, or city and county to administratively approve an application to install an electric vehicle charging station through the issuance of a building permit or similar nondiscretionary permit subject to a limited review by the building official of that city, county, or city and county. Existing law allows the building official to require the applicant to apply for a use permit if the official finds that the station could have a specific adverse impact upon the public health or safety and prohibits the city, county, or city and county from denying the application for a use permit to install an electric vehicle charging station unless it makes written findings that the proposed installation would have a specific, adverse impact upon the public health or safety, and there is no feasible method to satisfactorily mitigate or avoid the specific, adverse impact.

Version chain

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

1. 02/18/21 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 04/27/21 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 05/10/21 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
4. 07/13/21 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
5. 10/08/21 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
6. AB970 (committee substitute) — source
7. 09/09/21 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• AB 970 McCarty Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 59–11 (pass) · lower
• 3rd Reading AB970 McCarty et al. By Gonzalez — 30–9 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended — 4–1 (pass) · upper
• AB 970 McCarty Assembly Third Reading — 66–8 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended. — 8–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• McCarty — primary (person)
• Chiu — author (person)
• Ting — coauthor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2021-02-18 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2021-02-19 From printer. May be heard in committee March 21.
• 2021-03-04 Referred to Com. on L. GOV. referral-committee
• 2021-04-27 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on L. GOV. Read second time and amended. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
• 2021-04-28 Re-referred to Com. on L. GOV. referral-committee
• 2021-05-06 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 8. Noes 0.) (May 5). amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage
• 2021-05-10 Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
• 2021-05-11 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2021-06-01 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 66. Noes 8. Page 1711.) passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2021-06-02 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2021-06-16 Referred to Com. on GOV. & F. referral-committee
• 2021-07-12 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 4. Noes 1.) (July 8). amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage
• 2021-07-13 Read second time and amended. Ordered to third reading. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
• 2021-09-02 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 30. Noes 9. Page 2359.). passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2021-09-02 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after September 4 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
• 2021-09-07 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 59. Noes 11. Page 2832.). amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2021-09-13 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m.
• 2021-10-08 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2021-10-08 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 710, Statutes of 2021. became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/4a7bdacf-1496-4d6c-9a73-287e602f4d65. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).