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Bill	Housing element: notice of violation.	(1) Existing law requires each county and city to adopt a comprehensive, long-term general plan for the physical development of the county or city, and specified land outside its boundaries, that includes, among other mandatory elements, a housing element. Upon adoption of a housing element or amendment to an adopted housing element, existing law requires the planning agency to submit a copy to the Department of Housing and Community Development, as provided, and requires the department to evaluate the adopted housing element or amendment and report its findings to the planning agency within 90 days.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20232024	AB 434	California AB 434 (20232024)	bill	Housing element notice of violation	enacted	Grayson	7	26	9	2023-02-06	2023-10-11	openstates	ocd-bill/bd74dddd-a909-4922-a573-cd3bbc487e21	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB434	4a62547dd034a82efee8df97cefe2c06db16636c1b89cfeac30b568f2663fdaa	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 434 (20232024) — Housing element: notice of violation.

(1) Existing law requires each county and city to adopt a comprehensive, long-term general plan for the physical development of the county or city, and specified land outside its boundaries, that includes, among other mandatory elements, a housing element. Upon adoption of a housing element or amendment to an adopted housing element, existing law requires the planning agency to submit a copy to the Department of Housing and Community Development, as provided, and requires the department to evaluate the adopted housing element or amendment and report its findings to the planning agency within 90 days.

Version chain

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

1. 02/06/23 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 03/16/23 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 07/12/23 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
4. 09/08/23 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
5. 10/11/23 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
6. AB434 (committee substitute) — source
7. 09/18/23 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do pass. — 11–1 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 9–2 (pass) · upper
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Local Government] — 6–0 (pass) · lower
• Placed on suspense file — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 6–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass — 5–2 (pass) · upper
• 3rd Reading AB434 Grayson By Skinner — 31–7 (pass) · upper
• AB 434 Grayson Assembly Third Reading — 61–1 (pass) · lower
• AB 434 Grayson Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 61–11 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Grayson — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2023-02-06 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2023-02-07 From printer. May be heard in committee March 9.
• 2023-02-17 Referred to Coms. on H. & C.D. and L. GOV. referral-committee
• 2023-03-16 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
• 2023-03-20 Re-referred to Com. on H. & C.D. referral-committee
• 2023-03-29 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on L. GOV. (Ayes 6. Noes 0.) (March 29). Re-referred to Com. on L. GOV. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2023-04-20 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 6. Noes 0.) (April 19). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2023-05-10 In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to APPR. suspense file. referral-committee
• 2023-05-18 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 11. Noes 1.) (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 61. Noes 1. Page 1978.) 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 Com. on HOUSING. referral-committee
• 2023-07-11 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 9. Noes 2.) (July 10). amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2023-07-12 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: Do pass. (Ayes 5. Noes 2.) (September 1). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 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
• 2023-09-12 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 31. Noes 7. Page 2643.). passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2023-09-12 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending.
• 2023-09-13 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 61. Noes 11. Page 3382.). amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2023-09-20 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.
• 2023-10-11 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2023-10-11 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 740, Statutes of 2023. became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/bd74dddd-a909-4922-a573-cd3bbc487e21. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).