Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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| Bill | Farmworker housing: streamlined, ministerial approval: Counties of Fresno, Madera, and Merced. | Existing law authorizes a development proponent to submit an application for an eligible agricultural employee housing development that is subject to a streamlined, ministerial approval process, as specified, and is not subject to a conditional use permit if certain requirements are met, including that the development is located on specified land in the County of Santa Clara or the County of Santa Cruz and is within 15 miles of an area designated as farmland or grazing by the Department of Conservation and is not a site or adjoined to a site where more than 13 of the square footage on the site is dedicated to industrial use, as specified. The act defines an eligible agricultural housing development as an agricultural employee housing development that meets certain requirements, including that the development does not contain more than 36 units or spaces, or 150 units or spaces for developments located in the County of Santa Clara or the County of Santa Cruz, designed for use by a single family or household. | us/states/ca | California Legislature | 20252026 | AB 457 | California AB 457 (20252026) |
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California AB 457 (20252026) — Farmworker housing: streamlined, ministerial approval: Counties of Fresno, Madera, and Merced.
Existing law authorizes a development proponent to submit an application for an eligible agricultural employee housing development that is subject to a streamlined, ministerial approval process, as specified, and is not subject to a conditional use permit if certain requirements are met, including that the development is located on specified land in the County of Santa Clara or the County of Santa Cruz and is within 15 miles of an area designated as farmland or grazing by the Department of Conservation and is not a site or adjoined to a site where more than 13 of the square footage on the site is dedicated to industrial use, as specified. The act defines an eligible agricultural housing development as an agricultural employee housing development that meets certain requirements, including that the development does not contain more than 36 units or spaces, or 150 units or spaces for developments located in the County of Santa Clara or the County of Santa Cruz, designed for use by a single family or household.
Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
- 02/06/25 - Introduced (filed) — source
- 10/10/25 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
- AB457 (committee substitute) — source
- 08/27/25 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source
Votes
- AB 457 Soria Consent Calendar Second Day — 76–0 (pass) · lower
- Consent Calendar 2nd AB457 Soria et al. — 37–0 (pass) · upper
- Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Local Government] with the recommendation: To Consent Calendar — 9–0 (pass) · upper
- Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with the recommendation: To Consent Calendar — 7–0 (pass) · upper
- Do pass. To Consent Calendar. — 15–0 (pass) · lower
- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with recommendation: To Consent Calendar — 12–0 (pass) · lower
Sponsors
- Soria — primary (person)
- Arambula — principal coauthor (person)
- Rivas — coauthor (person)
Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- 2025-02-06 Read first time. To print.
reading-1 - 2025-02-07 From printer. May be heard in committee March 9.
- 2025-03-03 Referred to Com. on H. & C.D.
referral-committee - 2025-04-09 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 12. Noes 0.) (April 9). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee - 2025-04-23 From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 15. Noes 0.) (April 23).
committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable - 2025-04-24 Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar.
reading-1, reading-2 - 2025-05-01 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 76. Noes 0. Page 1386.)
passage, reading-1, reading-3 - 2025-05-01 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment.
reading-1 - 2025-05-14 Referred to Coms. on HOUSING and L. GOV.
referral-committee - 2025-06-18 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on L. GOV. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.) (June 17). Re-referred to Com. on L. GOV.
committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee - 2025-07-16 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (July 16). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee - 2025-08-19 From committee: Be ordered to second reading file pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8 and ordered to Consent Calendar.
committee-passage, reading-2 - 2025-08-20 Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar.
reading-1, reading-2 - 2025-08-25 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 37. Noes 0. Page 2250.).
passage, reading-1, reading-3 - 2025-08-26 In Assembly. Ordered to Engrossing and Enrolling.
committee-passage - 2025-09-02 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 490, Statutes of 2025.
became-law
Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/d007b999-3bfa-4067-b7cf-5fbf75f55efb. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).