republic-os/legislation/us/states/ca/20232024/ab-598.md

---
type: "Bill"
title: "San Francisco Bay Area Regional Housing Finance Act: regional and county expenditure plans."
description: "Existing law, the San Francisco Bay Area Regional Housing Finance Act, establishes the Bay Area Housing Finance Authority (BAHFA) to raise, administer, and allocate funding for affordable housing in the San Francisco Bay area, as defined, and provide technical assistance at a regional level for tenant protection, affordable housing preservation, and new affordable housing production. The act requires the executive board and the authority board of BAHFA to form an advisory committee, as specified, to assist in the development of funding guidelines and overall implementation of the program."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20232024"
identifier: "AB 598"
citation: "California AB 598 (20232024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["San Francisco Bay Area Regional Housing Finance Act", "regional and county expenditure plans"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Wicks"]
version_count: 7
action_count: 35
vote_count: 8
first_action: "2023-02-09"
last_action: "2024-09-27"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/e7dfc17c-29ad-4927-9cf7-e5b6ceff689a"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB598"
source_hash: "c976265bceaa8c5c7070cbca77fc7d564637e776842cc5755191fec6484f1f69"
vintage: "2026-07-01"
source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
confidence: "reported"
tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-ca"]
---

# California AB 598 (20232024) — San Francisco Bay Area Regional Housing Finance Act: regional and county expenditure plans.

Existing law, the San Francisco Bay Area Regional Housing Finance Act, establishes the Bay Area Housing Finance Authority (BAHFA) to raise, administer, and allocate funding for affordable housing in the San Francisco Bay area, as defined, and provide technical assistance at a regional level for tenant protection, affordable housing preservation, and new affordable housing production. The act requires the executive board and the authority board of BAHFA to form an advisory committee, as specified, to assist in the development of funding guidelines and overall implementation of the program.

## Version chain

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

1. **02/09/23 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB598&version=20230AB59899INT)
2. **03/09/23 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB598&version=20230AB59898AMD)
3. **04/18/23 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB598&version=20230AB59897AMD)
4. **06/10/24 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB598&version=20230AB59896AMD)
5. **09/27/24 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB598&version=20230AB59894CHP)
6. **AB598** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB598)
7. **09/05/24 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB598&version=20230AB59895ENR)

## Votes

- Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Local Government] with the recommendation: To Consent Calendar — **10–0** (pass) · upper
- AB 598 Wicks Concurrence in Senate Amendments — **67–2** (pass) · lower
- AB 598 Wicks Assembly Third Reading — **64–16** (pass) · lower
- Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **5–2** (pass) · lower
- Do pass and be ordered to the Consent Calendar — **7–0** (pass) · upper
- With recommendation: That Senate amendments be concurred in. — **7–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass. — **11–4** (pass) · lower
- 3rd Reading AB598 Wicks By Dodd — **40–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Wicks — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-02-09** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
- **2023-02-10** From printer. May be heard in committee March 12.
- **2023-03-09** Referred to Com. on ED. `referral-committee`
- **2023-03-09** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on ED. Read second time and amended. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2`
- **2023-03-13** Re-referred to Com. on ED. `referral-committee`
- **2023-04-17** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 5. Noes 2.) (April 12). `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2023-04-18** Read second time and amended. `amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2`
- **2023-04-19** Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `referral-committee`
- **2023-05-03** In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to APPR. suspense file. `referral-committee`
- **2023-05-18** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 11. Noes 4.) (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 64. Noes 16. Page 2025.) `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 ED. `referral-committee`
- **2023-06-26** In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
- **2023-07-05** In committee: Set, second hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
- **2024-06-10** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on ED. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2024-06-11** Withdrawn from committee.
- **2024-06-11** Re-referred to Com. on RLS. `referral-committee`
- **2024-06-12** Re-referred to Coms. on HOUSING and L. GOV. `referral-committee`
- **2024-06-25** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on L. GOV. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 10. Noes 0.) (June 24). Re-referred to Com. on L. GOV. `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
- **2024-07-03** From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (July 3). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-08-05** Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2024-08-05** From Consent Calendar.
- **2024-08-05** Ordered to third reading.
- **2024-08-29** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 40. Noes 0.). `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2024-08-30** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending.
- **2024-08-30** Re-referred to Com. on H. & C.D. pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.2. `referral-committee`
- **2024-08-30** Joint Rule 62(a) suspended.
- **2024-08-30** From committee: That the Senate amendments be concurred in. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (August 30). `committee-passage`
- **2024-08-31** Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 67. Noes 2.). `amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-09-09** Enrolled measure version corrected.
- **2024-09-11** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.
- **2024-09-27** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2024-09-27** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 671, Statutes of 2024. `became-law`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/e7dfc17c-29ad-4927-9cf7-e5b6ceff689a`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).