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Bill	Housing programs: rent increases.	Existing law, the Zenovich-Moscone-Chacon Housing and Home Finance Act, prohibits "affordable rent" for certain rental housing developments that receive assistance on or after January 1, 1991, from exceeding a specified percentage based on the area median income adjusted for family size appropriate for the unit and whether the household is an acutely low income household, extremely low income household, very low income household, lower income household, or moderate-income household. Existing law defines "area median income," "adjustments for family size appropriate to the unit," and "moderate-income household" for these purposes.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20232024	AB 846	California AB 846 (20232024)	bill	Housing programs rent increases	enacted	Bonta	10	34	9	2023-02-14	2024-09-27	openstates	ocd-bill/08e1aa92-6b70-4372-b78d-3608759090b5	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB846	7de9fb98f66a3e36b26462a282030b34d384a3202a97f79240cd2cebc9ef06d2	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 846 (20232024) — Housing programs: rent increases.

Existing law, the Zenovich-Moscone-Chacon Housing and Home Finance Act, prohibits "affordable rent" for certain rental housing developments that receive assistance on or after January 1, 1991, from exceeding a specified percentage based on the area median income adjusted for family size appropriate for the unit and whether the household is an acutely low income household, extremely low income household, very low income household, lower income household, or moderate-income household. Existing law defines "area median income," "adjustments for family size appropriate to the unit," and "moderate-income household" for these purposes.

Version chain

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

1. 02/14/23 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 01/25/24 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 03/09/23 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
4. 06/10/24 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
5. 06/26/24 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
6. 08/15/24 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
7. 08/23/24 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
8. 09/27/24 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
9. AB846 (committee substitute) — source
10. 09/05/24 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do pass as amended — 5–2 (pass) · upper
• Placed on suspense file — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 8–2 (pass) · upper
• AB 846 Bonta Assembly Third Reading — 59–6 (pass) · lower
• AB 846 Bonta Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 57–10 (pass) · lower
• 3rd Reading AB846 Bonta By Wahab — 26–10 (pass) · upper
• With recommendation: That Senate amendments be concurred in. — 7–2 (pass) · lower
• Do pass. — 6–2 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Judiciary] — 6–2 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Bonta — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2023-02-14 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2023-02-15 From printer. May be heard in committee March 17.
• 2023-03-09 Referred to Com. on H. & C.D. referral-committee
• 2023-03-09 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
• 2023-03-13 Re-referred to Com. on H. & C.D. referral-committee
• 2023-04-27 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 6. Noes 2.) (April 26). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2023-05-01 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2023-05-25 Ordered to inactive file at the request of Assembly Member Bonta.
• 2024-01-18 Notice of intention to remove from inactive file given by Assembly Member Bonta.
• 2024-01-22 From inactive file.
• 2024-01-22 Ordered to third reading.
• 2024-01-25 Read third time and amended. Ordered to third reading. (Page 3933.) amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2024-01-30 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 59. Noes 6. Page 3967.) passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2024-01-30 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2024-05-01 Referred to Coms. on HOUSING and JUD. referral-committee
• 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 HOUSING. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee
• 2024-06-25 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on JUD. (Ayes 6. Noes 2.) (June 24). amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2024-06-26 Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on JUD. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee
• 2024-07-03 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 8. Noes 2.) (July 2). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2024-08-05 In committee: Referred to APPR suspense file. referral-committee
• 2024-08-15 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 5. Noes 2.) (August 15). amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage
• 2024-08-15 Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
• 2024-08-19 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2024-08-23 Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2024-08-26 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2024-08-29 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 26. Noes 10.). 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 2.) (August 30). committee-passage
• 2024-08-31 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 57. Noes 10.). amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2024-09-12 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 674, Statutes of 2024. became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/08e1aa92-6b70-4372-b78d-3608759090b5. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).