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Bill	Accelerated restaurant building plan approval: California Retail Food Code: tenant improvements.	Existing law, the California Building Standards Law, establishes the California Building Standards Commission within the Department of General Services. Existing law requires the commission to approve and adopt building standards and to codify those standards in the California Building Standards Code. Existing law authorizes local governments to enact ordinances or regulations that make building standards amendments to the California Building Standards Code, as specified.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20252026	AB 671	California AB 671 (20252026)	bill	Acceleratedrestaurantbuildingplanapproval CaliforniaRetailFoodCode tenantimprovements	enacted	Wicks	11	31	8	2025-02-14	2025-10-09	openstates	ocd-bill/c43df03c-c4d6-415b-9277-7a64553b0a43	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB671	d11f70c236b0b771d56df691c8d55e3fec29f43b849f0834fa447a57c326c9d1	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 671 (20252026) — Accelerated restaurant building plan approval: California Retail Food Code: tenant improvements.

Existing law, the California Building Standards Law, establishes the California Building Standards Commission within the Department of General Services. Existing law requires the commission to approve and adopt building standards and to codify those standards in the California Building Standards Code. Existing law authorizes local governments to enact ordinances or regulations that make building standards amendments to the California Building Standards Code, as specified.

Version chain

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

1. 02/14/25 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 03/24/25 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 04/24/25 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
4. 05/22/25 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
5. 07/02/25 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
6. 07/09/25 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
7. 07/16/25 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
8. 08/25/25 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
9. 10/09/25 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
10. AB671 (committee substitute) — source
11. 09/11/25 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do pass as amended. — 15–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 17–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 11–0 (pass) · upper
• AB 671 Wicks Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 80–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Business, Professions and Economic Development] — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• 3rd Reading AB671 Wicks et al. By Grayson — 40–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on [Business and Professions] — 10–0 (pass) · lower
• AB 671 Wicks Assembly Third Reading — 72–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Wicks — primary (person)
• Blanca Rubio — coauthor (person)
• Gabriel — author (person)
• Grayson — coauthor (person)
• Haney — coauthor (person)
• Mark González — coauthor (person)
• Ward — coauthor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2025-02-14 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2025-02-15 From printer. May be heard in committee March 17.
• 2025-03-24 Referred to Coms. on L. GOV. and B. & P. referral-committee
• 2025-03-24 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on L. GOV. Read second time and amended. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
• 2025-03-25 Re-referred to Com. on L. GOV. referral-committee
• 2025-04-23 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on B. & P. (Ayes 10. Noes 0.) (April 23). amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2025-04-24 Read second time and amended. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
• 2025-04-28 Re-referred to Com. on B. & P. referral-committee
• 2025-04-29 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 17. Noes 0.) (April 29). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2025-05-14 In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
• 2025-05-21 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 15. Noes 0.) (May 21). amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage
• 2025-05-22 Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
• 2025-05-23 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2025-05-29 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 72. Noes 0. Page 1772.) passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2025-05-29 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2025-06-11 Referred to Coms. on L. GOV. and B. P. & E.D. referral-committee
• 2025-07-02 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on L. GOV. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee
• 2025-07-09 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on B. P. & E.D. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (July 9). Re-referred to Com. on B. P. & E.D. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2025-07-09 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on B. P. & E.D. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee
• 2025-07-15 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 11. Noes 0.) (July 14). amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2025-07-16 Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee
• 2025-08-19 From committee: Be ordered to second reading pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8. committee-passage, reading-2
• 2025-08-20 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2025-08-25 Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2025-08-26 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2025-09-02 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 40. Noes 0. Page 2397.). passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2025-09-02 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending.
• 2025-09-09 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 80. Noes 0. Page 3094.). amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-09-23 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.
• 2025-10-09 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2025-10-09 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 470, Statutes of 2025. became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/c43df03c-c4d6-415b-9277-7a64553b0a43. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).