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Bill	Housing development: density bonuses.	Existing law, commonly referred to as the Density Bonus Law, requires a city or county to provide a developer that proposes a housing development, as defined, within the city or county with a density bonus, other incentives or concessions, and waivers or reductions of development standards, as specified, if the developer agrees to construct, among other options, specified units and meets other requirements.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20252026	AB 87	California AB 87 (20252026)	bill	Housingdevelopment densitybonuses	enacted	Boerner	8	26	7	2025-01-06	2025-10-10	openstates	ocd-bill/51f0bc3f-c812-4b97-ad15-1164196f2f53	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB87	298b289508334e7301f2b643fae147139170035f68b241a7f1a120dd93f7e253	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 87 (20252026) — Housing development: density bonuses.

Existing law, commonly referred to as the Density Bonus Law, requires a city or county to provide a developer that proposes a housing development, as defined, within the city or county with a density bonus, other incentives or concessions, and waivers or reductions of development standards, as specified, if the developer agrees to construct, among other options, specified units and meets other requirements.

Version chain

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

1. 01/06/25 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 03/17/25 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 04/24/25 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
4. 07/10/25 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
5. 08/27/25 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
6. 10/10/25 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
7. AB87 (committee substitute) — source
8. 09/05/25 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do pass as amended — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• AB 87 Boerner Assembly Third Reading — 75–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Local Government] — 10–1 (pass) · upper
• Do pass. — 9–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Local Government] — 10–0 (pass) · lower
• AB 87 Boerner Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 77–0 (pass) · lower
• 3rd Reading AB87 Boerner By Padilla — 40–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Boerner — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2025-01-06 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2025-01-07 From printer. May be heard in committee February 6.
• 2025-03-17 Referred to Coms. on H. & C.D. and L. GOV. referral-committee
• 2025-03-17 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
• 2025-03-18 Re-referred to Com. on H. & C.D. referral-committee
• 2025-04-24 Assembly Rule 56 suspended. (Page 1265.)
• 2025-04-24 (Pending re-refer to Com. on L. GOV.)
• 2025-04-24 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on L. GOV. (Ayes 10. Noes 0.) (April 24). Re-referred to Com. on L. GOV. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2025-04-24 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
• 2025-04-28 Re-referred to Com. on L. GOV. referral-committee
• 2025-05-01 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.) (April 30). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-05-05 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2025-05-12 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 75. Noes 0. Page 1513.) 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 L. GOV. referral-committee
• 2025-06-25 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on L. GOV. (Ayes 10. Noes 1.) (June 24). Re-referred to Com. on L. GOV. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2025-07-09 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (July 9). amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage
• 2025-07-10 Read second time and amended. Ordered to third reading. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
• 2025-08-27 Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2025-08-28 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 2398.). passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2025-09-02 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending.
• 2025-09-03 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 77. Noes 0. Page 2855.). amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-09-09 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 486, Statutes of 2025. became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/51f0bc3f-c812-4b97-ad15-1164196f2f53. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).