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Bill	Housing Accountability Act: disapprovals: California Environmental Quality Act.	Existing law, the Housing Accountability Act, prohibits a local agency from disapproving a housing development project, as described, unless it makes certain written findings based on a preponderance of the evidence in the record. The act defines "disapprove the housing development project" as including any instance in which a local agency either votes and disapproves a proposed housing development project application, including any required land use approvals or entitlements necessary for the issuance of a building permit, or fails to comply with specified time periods. Existing law, the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) , requires a lead agency, as defined, to prepare, or cause to be prepared, and certify the completion of, an environmental impact report on a project that the lead agency proposes to carry out or approve that may have a significant effect on the environment or to adopt a negative declaration if the lead agency finds that the project will not have that effect.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20232024	AB 1633	California AB 1633 (20232024)	bill	California Environmental Quality Act Housing Accountability Act disapprovals	enacted	Ting	10	34	10	2023-02-17	2023-10-11	openstates	ocd-bill/aa5fe9fb-15c0-4cee-b46b-c70148a4471c	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB1633	5f6bfd5037a8f5ea42d27820a3ca065f1dbcc3ea5cd50be93c96f97ca258141a	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 1633 (20232024) — Housing Accountability Act: disapprovals: California Environmental Quality Act.

Existing law, the Housing Accountability Act, prohibits a local agency from disapproving a housing development project, as described, unless it makes certain written findings based on a preponderance of the evidence in the record. The act defines "disapprove the housing development project" as including any instance in which a local agency either votes and disapproves a proposed housing development project application, including any required land use approvals or entitlements necessary for the issuance of a building permit, or fails to comply with specified time periods. Existing law, the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) , requires a lead agency, as defined, to prepare, or cause to be prepared, and certify the completion of, an environmental impact report on a project that the lead agency proposes to carry out or approve that may have a significant effect on the environment or to adopt a negative declaration if the lead agency finds that the project will not have that effect.

Version chain

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

1. 02/17/23 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 04/13/23 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 04/18/23 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
4. 04/27/23 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
5. 07/13/23 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
6. 09/01/23 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
7. 09/08/23 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
8. 10/11/23 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
9. AB1633 (committee substitute) — source
10. 09/18/23 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Placed on suspense file — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on [Natural Resources] — 8–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• 3rd Reading AB1633 Ting et al. By Wiener — 21–3 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 8–0 (pass) · lower
• AB 1633 TING Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 67–2 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Environmental Quality] — 11–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass. — 15–0 (pass) · lower
• AB 1633 Ting Assembly Third Reading — 70–1 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Ting — primary (person)
• Haney — coauthor (person)
• Hoover — coauthor (person)
• Wiener — coauthor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2023-02-17 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2023-02-18 From printer. May be heard in committee March 20.
• 2023-03-09 Referred to Coms. on H. & C.D. and NAT. RES. referral-committee
• 2023-04-12 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on NAT. RES. (Ayes 8. Noes 0.) (April 12). amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2023-04-13 Read second time and amended. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
• 2023-04-17 Re-referred to Com. on NAT. RES. referral-committee
• 2023-04-18 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on NAT. RES. Read second time and amended. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
• 2023-04-19 Re-referred to Com. on NAT. RES. referral-committee
• 2023-04-26 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 8. Noes 0.) (April 24). amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2023-04-27 Read second time and amended. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
• 2023-05-01 Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee
• 2023-05-17 In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to APPR. suspense file. referral-committee
• 2023-05-18 Joint Rule 62(a), file notice suspended. (Page 1580.)
• 2023-05-18 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 15. Noes 0.) (May 18). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2023-05-18 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2023-05-31 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 70. Noes 1. Page 2029.) passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2023-06-01 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2023-06-14 Referred to Coms. on HOUSING and E.Q. referral-committee
• 2023-06-21 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on E.Q. (Ayes 11. Noes 0.) (June 20). Re-referred to Com. on E.Q. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2023-07-13 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (July 12). amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2023-07-13 Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee
• 2023-08-14 In committee: Referred to APPR suspense file. referral-committee
• 2023-09-01 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (September 1). amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage
• 2023-09-01 Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
• 2023-09-05 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2023-09-08 Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2023-09-11 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2023-09-13 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 21. Noes 3. Page 2726.). passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2023-09-13 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending.
• 2023-09-13 Assembly Rule 63 suspended. (Page 3489.)
• 2023-09-13 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 67. Noes 2. Page 3489.). amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2023-09-21 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3:30 p.m.
• 2023-10-11 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2023-10-11 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 768, Statutes of 2023. became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/aa5fe9fb-15c0-4cee-b46b-c70148a4471c. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).