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Bill	Density Bonus Law: qualifications for incentives or concessions: student housing for lower income students: moderate-income persons and families: local government constraints.	Existing law, known as the Density Bonus Law, requires a city or county to provide a developer that proposes a housing development in the city or county with a density bonus and other incentives or concessions for the production of lower income housing units, or for the donation of land within the development, if the developer agrees to, among other things, construct a specified percentage of units for very low income, low-income, or moderate-income households or qualifying residents, including lower income students.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20212022	SB 290	California SB 290 (20212022)	bill	Density Bonus Law: qualifications for incentives or concessions: student housing for lower income students: moderate-income persons and families: local government constraints.	enacted	Skinner	5	30	10	2021-02-01	2021-09-28	openstates	ocd-bill/bfcfd0c7-5b66-4484-a5d9-6c055ac95e8a	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB290	68dba9d6f590b359619bad44c84e949ee387a0db195b03351b130a2661bbbbbb	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California SB 290 (20212022) — Density Bonus Law: qualifications for incentives or concessions: student housing for lower income students: moderate-income persons and families: local government constraints.

Existing law, known as the Density Bonus Law, requires a city or county to provide a developer that proposes a housing development in the city or county with a density bonus and other incentives or concessions for the production of lower income housing units, or for the donation of land within the development, if the developer agrees to, among other things, construct a specified percentage of units for very low income, low-income, or moderate-income households or qualifying residents, including lower income students.

Version chain

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

1. 02/01/21 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 08/16/21 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 09/28/21 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
4. SB290 (committee substitute) — source
5. 09/01/21 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do pass. — 13–0 (pass) · lower
• Placed on suspense file — 6–0 (pass) · upper
• 3rd Reading — 33–4 (pass) · upper
• Unfinished Business SB290 Skinner Concurrence — 32–4 (pass) · upper
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Local Government] — 8–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 7–1 (pass) · lower
• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Governance and Finance] — 6–1 (pass) · upper
• Do pass — 5–2 (pass) · upper
• SB 290 Skinner Senate Third Reading By Quirk-Silva — 66–1 (pass) · lower
• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 5–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Skinner — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2021-02-01 Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. introduction, reading-1
• 2021-02-02 From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 4.
• 2021-02-10 Referred to Coms. on HOUSING and GOV. & F. referral-committee
• 2021-02-22 Art. IV. Sec. 8(a) of the Constitution dispensed with.
• 2021-02-22 (Ayes 32. Noes 4.)
• 2021-02-22 Joint Rule 55 suspended. (Ayes 32. Noes 4. Page 272.)
• 2021-02-24 Set for hearing March 18.
• 2021-03-18 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on GOV. & F. (Ayes 6. Noes 1. Page 552.) (March 18). Re-referred to Com. on GOV. & F. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2021-04-06 Set for hearing April 15.
• 2021-04-15 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 5. Noes 0. Page 814.) (April 15). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2021-04-21 Set for hearing May 3.
• 2021-05-04 May 3 hearing: Placed on APPR suspense file.
• 2021-05-14 Set for hearing May 20.
• 2021-05-20 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 5. Noes 2. Page 1186.) (May 20). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2021-05-20 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2021-05-24 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 33. Noes 4. Page 1232.) Ordered to the Assembly. passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2021-05-24 In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. reading-1
• 2021-05-28 Referred to Coms. on H. & C.D. and L. GOV. referral-committee
• 2021-06-23 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on L. GOV. (Ayes 8. Noes 0.) (June 22). Re-referred to Com. on L. GOV. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2021-07-01 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 7. Noes 1.) (June 30). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2021-07-14 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 13. Noes 0.) (July 14). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2021-07-15 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2021-08-16 Read third time and amended. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2021-08-16 Ordered to third reading.
• 2021-08-23 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 66. Noes 1. Page 2478.) Ordered to the Senate. passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2021-08-26 In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
• 2021-08-30 Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 32. Noes 4. Page 2211.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling. amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2021-09-03 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 340, Statutes of 2021. became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/bfcfd0c7-5b66-4484-a5d9-6c055ac95e8a. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).