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Bill	Housing reform laws: enforcement actions: fines and penalties.	Existing law within the Planning and Zoning Law describes various reforms and incentives enacted by the Legislature to facilitate and expedite the construction of affordable housing. Existing law within the Planning and Zoning Law, in certain civil actions or proceedings against a public entity that has issued specified approvals for a housing development, authorizes a court to award all reasonably incurred costs of suit to a prevailing public entity or nonprofit housing corporation that is a real party in interest and the permit applicant of the low- or moderate-income housing if the court makes specified findings.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20252026	AB 712	California AB 712 (20252026)	bill	Housingreformlaws enforcementactions finesandpenalties	enacted	Wicks	8	26	8	2025-02-14	2025-10-10	openstates	ocd-bill/920549c6-e70f-4498-bd7a-3f6b398901a8	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB712	522c253d4c61e2a084f1fba3144f5fd0ac4b920f46f46d923ccfb06b542e0b0b	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 712 (20252026) — Housing reform laws: enforcement actions: fines and penalties.

Existing law within the Planning and Zoning Law describes various reforms and incentives enacted by the Legislature to facilitate and expedite the construction of affordable housing. Existing law within the Planning and Zoning Law, in certain civil actions or proceedings against a public entity that has issued specified approvals for a housing development, authorizes a court to award all reasonably incurred costs of suit to a prevailing public entity or nonprofit housing corporation that is a real party in interest and the permit applicant of the low- or moderate-income housing if the court makes specified findings.

Version chain

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

1. 02/14/25 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 03/10/25 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 04/10/25 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
4. 05/05/25 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
5. 07/03/25 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
6. 10/10/25 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
7. AB712 (committee substitute) — source
8. 09/08/25 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Judiciary] — 10–1 (pass) · upper
• AB 712 Wicks Assembly Third Reading — 64–2 (pass) · lower
• 3rd Reading AB712 Wicks By Caballero — 35–2 (pass) · upper
• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 13–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Judiciary] — 11–0 (pass) · lower
• AB 712 Wicks Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 64–2 (pass) · lower
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 9–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass. — 12–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Wicks — primary (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.
• 2025-03-10 Referred to Coms. on H. & C.D. and JUD. referral-committee
• 2025-03-10 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
• 2025-03-11 Re-referred to Com. on H. & C.D. referral-committee
• 2025-04-09 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on JUD. (Ayes 11. Noes 0.) (April 9). Re-referred to Com. on JUD. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2025-04-10 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on JUD. Read second time and amended. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
• 2025-04-21 Re-referred to Com. on JUD. referral-committee
• 2025-04-22 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.) (April 22). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2025-04-30 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 12. Noes 0.) (April 30). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-05-01 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2025-05-05 Read third time and amended. Ordered to third reading. (Page 1436.) amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2025-05-12 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 64. Noes 2. Page 1512.) passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2025-05-13 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2025-05-21 Referred to Coms. on HOUSING and JUD. referral-committee
• 2025-07-02 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on JUD. (Ayes 10. Noes 1.) (July 1). amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2025-07-03 Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on JUD. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee
• 2025-07-16 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 13. Noes 0.) (July 15). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, 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
• 2025-09-03 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 35. Noes 2. Page 2462.). passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2025-09-04 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending.
• 2025-09-04 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 64. Noes 2. Page 2932.). amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-09-11 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.
• 2025-10-10 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2025-10-10 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 496, Statutes of 2025. became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/920549c6-e70f-4498-bd7a-3f6b398901a8. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).