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Bill	Accessory dwelling units.	Existing law provides for the creation by local ordinance, or by ministerial approval if a local agency has not adopted an ordinance, of accessory dwelling units in areas zoned for single-family or multifamily dwelling residential use in accordance with specified standards and conditions. Existing law also provides for the creation of junior accessory dwelling units by local ordinance, or, if a local agency has not adopted an ordinance, by ministerial approval, in single-family residential zones in accordance with specified standards and conditions.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20232024	SB 477	California SB 477 (20232024)	bill	Accessory dwelling units	enacted	Committee on Housing	6	34	8	2023-02-14	2024-03-25	openstates	ocd-bill/d7e6adfe-25ed-4b5c-a39a-914acf3bde24	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB477	0b01ac2cfe432474883f6741cae55f620364a49d1ec1d6995796ffe3fb7d12e9	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California SB 477 (20232024) — Accessory dwelling units.

Existing law provides for the creation by local ordinance, or by ministerial approval if a local agency has not adopted an ordinance, of accessory dwelling units in areas zoned for single-family or multifamily dwelling residential use in accordance with specified standards and conditions. Existing law also provides for the creation of junior accessory dwelling units by local ordinance, or, if a local agency has not adopted an ordinance, by ministerial approval, in single-family residential zones in accordance with specified standards and conditions.

Version chain

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

1. 02/14/23 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 03/07/24 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 03/25/24 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
4. 06/22/23 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
5. SB477 (committee substitute) — source
6. 03/15/24 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do pass and be ordered to the Consent Calendar — 10–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended. To Consent Calendar. — 8–0 (pass) · lower
• Unfinished Business SB477 HOUSING (Skinner) Urgency Clause Concurrence — 40–0 (pass) · upper
• SB 477 Housing Third Reading Urgency By WARD — 66–0 (pass) · lower
• Unfinished Business SB477 HOUSING (Wiener) Urgency Clause Concurrence — 37–0 (pass) · upper
• SB 477 Housing Third Reading Urgency By WARD Amendment Set #1 — 70–0 (pass) · lower
• SB 477 Housing Consent Calendar Second Day — 74–0 (pass) · lower
• Consent Calendar SB477 HOUSING — 36–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Committee on Housing — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2023-02-14 Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. introduction, reading-1
• 2023-02-15 From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 17.
• 2023-02-22 Referred to Com. on HOUSING. referral-committee
• 2023-03-30 Set for hearing May 2.
• 2023-05-02 From committee: Do pass. Ordered to consent calendar. (Ayes 10. Noes 0. Page 981.) (May 2). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2023-05-03 Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar. reading-1, reading-2
• 2023-05-08 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 36. Noes 0. Page 1025.) Ordered to the Assembly. passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2023-05-08 In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. reading-1
• 2023-05-18 Referred to Com. on H. & C.D. referral-committee
• 2023-06-07 June 7 hearing postponed by committee.
• 2023-06-21 From committee: Do pass as amended. Ordered to consent calendar. (Ayes 8. Noes 0.) (June 21). amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2023-06-22 Read second time and amended. Ordered to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
• 2023-06-26 Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar. reading-1, reading-2
• 2023-06-29 Read third time. Urgency clause adopted. Passed. (Ayes 74. Noes 0. Page 2487.) Ordered to the Senate. passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2023-07-03 In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
• 2023-07-10 Urgency clause adopted.
• 2023-07-10 Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 37. Noes 0. Page 1958.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling. amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2023-07-13 Withdrawn from engrossing and enrolling.
• 2023-07-13 Action rescinded whereby the urgency clause was adopted, and the Assembly amendments were concurred in. Ordered to the Assembly.
• 2023-07-13 In Assembly. Held at Desk.
• 2023-08-14 Action rescinded whereby the bill was read a third time, urgency clause adopted, and passed to the Senate.
• 2023-08-14 Ordered to inactive file on request of Assembly Member Hart.
• 2024-02-29 Notice of intention to remove from inactive file given by Assembly Member Ward.
• 2024-03-04 From inactive file.
• 2024-03-04 Ordered to third reading.
• 2024-03-07 Read third time and amended. (Ayes 70. Noes 0. Page 4296.) amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2024-03-07 Ordered to third reading.
• 2024-03-11 Read third time. Urgency clause adopted. Passed. (Ayes 66. Noes 0. Page 4318.) Ordered to the Senate. passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2024-03-11 In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
• 2024-03-14 Urgency clause adopted.
• 2024-03-14 Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 40. Noes 0. Page 3295.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling. amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2024-03-20 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 2 p.m.
• 2024-03-25 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2024-03-25 Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 7, Statutes of 2024. became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/d7e6adfe-25ed-4b5c-a39a-914acf3bde24. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).