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Bill	Housing elements: prohousing designation.	Existing law, the Planning and Zoning Law, requires a city or county to adopt a general plan for land use development within its boundaries that includes, among other things, a housing element. The law requires the Department of Housing and Community Development (HCD) to determine whether the housing element is in substantial compliance with specified provisions of that law. Existing law requires HCD to designate jurisdictions as prohousing pursuant to emergency regulations adopted by HCD, as prescribed, and to report those designations to the Office of Land Use and Climate Innovation. Existing law specifies that these emergency regulations will remain in effect until HCD promulgates permanent prohousing regulations.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20252026	AB 36	California AB 36 (20252026)	bill	Housingelements prohousingdesignation	enacted	Soria	7	29	7	2024-12-02	2025-10-10	openstates	ocd-bill/cd7f944f-1322-414f-8c09-b63a3bc5426f	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB36	654994f6d9086d784d0ef37daaf4b07c64677e603b7fc3c028b58f64879d34f0	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 36 (20252026) — Housing elements: prohousing designation.

Existing law, the Planning and Zoning Law, requires a city or county to adopt a general plan for land use development within its boundaries that includes, among other things, a housing element. The law requires the Department of Housing and Community Development (HCD) to determine whether the housing element is in substantial compliance with specified provisions of that law. Existing law requires HCD to designate jurisdictions as prohousing pursuant to emergency regulations adopted by HCD, as prescribed, and to report those designations to the Office of Land Use and Climate Innovation. Existing law specifies that these emergency regulations will remain in effect until HCD promulgates permanent prohousing regulations.

Version chain

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

1. 12/02/24 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 03/19/25 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 08/18/25 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
4. 09/04/25 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
5. 10/10/25 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
6. AB36 (committee substitute) — source
7. 09/12/25 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with recommendation: To Consent Calendar — 10–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass. To Consent Calendar. — 14–0 (pass) · lower
• AB 36 Soria Consent Calendar Second Day — 69–0 (pass) · lower
• AB 36 Soria Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 79–0 (pass) · lower
• 3rd Reading AB36 Soria By Padilla — 40–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Local Government] with recommendation: To Consent Calendar — 12–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with the recommendation: To Consent Calendar — 10–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Soria — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2024-12-02 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2024-12-03 From printer. May be heard in committee January 2.
• 2025-02-03 Referred to Coms. on H. & C.D. and L. GOV. referral-committee
• 2025-03-18 In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
• 2025-03-19 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
• 2025-03-20 Re-referred to Com. on H. & C.D. referral-committee
• 2025-04-09 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on L. GOV. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 12. Noes 0.) (April 9). Re-referred to Com. on L. GOV. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2025-04-23 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 10. Noes 0.) (April 23). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2025-04-30 From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 14. Noes 0.) (April 30). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-05-01 Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. reading-1, reading-2
• 2025-05-08 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 69. Noes 0. Page 1485.) passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2025-05-08 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2025-05-21 Referred to Com. on HOUSING. referral-committee
• 2025-07-16 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 10. Noes 0.) (July 15). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2025-08-13 In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
• 2025-08-18 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on APPR. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee
• 2025-08-18 (Ayes 27. Noes 0. Page 2173.)
• 2025-08-25 From committee: Be ordered to second reading file pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8 and ordered to Consent Calendar. committee-passage, reading-2
• 2025-08-26 Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. reading-1, reading-2
• 2025-08-29 From Consent Calendar.
• 2025-08-29 Ordered to third reading.
• 2025-09-04 Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2025-09-08 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2025-09-09 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 40. Noes 0. Page 2667.). passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2025-09-09 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending.
• 2025-09-10 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 79. Noes 0. Page 3210.). amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-09-22 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m.
• 2025-10-10 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2025-10-10 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 485, Statutes of 2025. became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/cd7f944f-1322-414f-8c09-b63a3bc5426f. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).