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Bill	Land use: 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 prohibits a local agency from issuing a certificate of occupancy for an accessory dwelling unit before the local agency issues a certificate of occupancy for the primary dwelling.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20252026	AB 462	California AB 462 (20252026)	bill	Landuse accessorydwellingunits	enacted	Lowenthal	9	27	9	2025-02-06	2025-10-10	openstates	ocd-bill/6d98d58e-3155-4322-b7b1-44dcd8d7bc29	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB462	16a1fd77a204f6f8cf014e5ca1e56a2b5b75a9c61efab666696cf85778aa7519	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 462 (20252026) — Land use: 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 prohibits a local agency from issuing a certificate of occupancy for an accessory dwelling unit before the local agency issues a certificate of occupancy for the primary dwelling.

Version chain

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

1. 02/06/25 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 02/27/25 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 05/13/25 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
4. 07/10/25 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
5. 07/17/25 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
6. 08/29/25 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
7. 10/10/25 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
8. AB462 (committee substitute) — source
9. 09/16/25 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• AB 462 Lowenthal Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 79–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass. — 15–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 10–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 11–0 (pass) · lower
• AB 462 Lowenthal Third Reading Urgency — 77–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Housing] — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• 3rd Reading AB462 Lowenthal et al. By Grayson Urgency Clause — 39–0 (pass) · upper
• Placed on suspense file — 7–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Lowenthal — primary (person)
• Rivas — author (person)
• Wicks — 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.
• 2025-02-18 Referred to Com. on H. & C.D. referral-committee
• 2025-02-27 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
• 2025-02-28 Re-referred to Com. on H. & C.D. referral-committee
• 2025-03-12 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 11. Noes 0.) (March 12). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2025-03-19 Coauthors revised.
• 2025-03-19 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 15. Noes 0.) (March 19). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-03-20 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2025-04-01 Read third time. Urgency clause adopted. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 77. Noes 0. Page 955.). passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2025-04-02 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2025-04-23 Re-referred to Coms. on N.R. & W. and HOUSING. referral-committee
• 2025-05-13 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on N.R. & W. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee
• 2025-07-09 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on HOUSING. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (July 8). amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2025-07-10 Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on HOUSING. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee
• 2025-07-16 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 10. Noes 0.) (July 15). amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2025-07-17 Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee
• 2025-08-18 In committee: Referred to suspense file. referral-committee
• 2025-08-29 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (August 29). amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage
• 2025-08-29 Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
• 2025-09-02 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2025-09-11 Read third time. Urgency clause adopted. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 39. Noes 0. Page 2916.). passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2025-09-12 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending.
• 2025-09-12 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 79. Noes 0. Page 3375.). amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-09-24 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 491, Statutes of 2025. became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/6d98d58e-3155-4322-b7b1-44dcd8d7bc29. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).