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Bill	Housing development projects: objective standards: campus development zone.	Existing law, the Affordable Housing and High Road Jobs Act of 2022 (act) , until January 1, 2033, authorizes a development proponent to submit an application for an affordable housing development or a mixed-income housing development that meets specified objective standards and affordability and site criteria, including being located within a zone where office, retail, or parking are a principally permitted use. The act makes a development that meets those objective standards and affordability and site criteria a use by right and subject to one of 2 streamlined, ministerial review processes depending on, among other things, the affordability requirements applicable to the project. The act requires the Department of Housing and Community Development to undertake at least 2 studies, one completed on or before January 1, 2027, and one completed on or before January 1, 2031, on the outcomes of the act.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20252026	AB 893	California AB 893 (20252026)	bill	Housingdevelopmentprojects campusdevelopmentzone objectivestandards	enacted	Fong	9	28	8	2025-02-19	2025-10-10	openstates	ocd-bill/e5318d98-8544-4706-8944-fd9b4f8ac8cd	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB893	97cc2b480cb6d484318490304d2b0d724ba1f86303f33fd0981d7a6bb1a31614	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 893 (20252026) — Housing development projects: objective standards: campus development zone.

Existing law, the Affordable Housing and High Road Jobs Act of 2022 (act) , until January 1, 2033, authorizes a development proponent to submit an application for an affordable housing development or a mixed-income housing development that meets specified objective standards and affordability and site criteria, including being located within a zone where office, retail, or parking are a principally permitted use. The act makes a development that meets those objective standards and affordability and site criteria a use by right and subject to one of 2 streamlined, ministerial review processes depending on, among other things, the affordability requirements applicable to the project. The act requires the Department of Housing and Community Development to undertake at least 2 studies, one completed on or before January 1, 2027, and one completed on or before January 1, 2031, on the outcomes of the act.

Version chain

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

1. 02/19/25 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 04/10/25 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 04/21/25 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
4. 05/27/25 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
5. 07/03/25 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
6. 08/25/25 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
7. 10/10/25 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
8. AB893 (committee substitute) — source
9. 09/10/25 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• AB 893 Fong Assembly Third Reading — 65–5 (pass) · lower
• 3rd Reading AB893 Fong et al. By Cabaldon — 31–9 (pass) · upper
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 9–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass. — 10–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Local Government] — 9–1 (pass) · upper
• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 5–2 (pass) · upper
• AB 893 Fong Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 62–5 (pass) · lower
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Local Government] — 10–1 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Fong — primary (person)
• Caloza — coauthor (person)
• Haney — coauthor (person)
• Kalra — coauthor (person)
• Wicks — coauthor (person)
• Wilson — coauthor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2025-02-19 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2025-02-20 From printer. May be heard in committee March 22.
• 2025-03-10 Referred to Coms. on H. & C.D. and L. GOV. referral-committee
• 2025-04-09 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on L. GOV. (Ayes 10. Noes 1.) (April 9). Re-referred to Com. on L. GOV. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2025-04-10 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
• 2025-04-21 Re-referred to Com. on L. GOV. referral-committee
• 2025-04-21 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
• 2025-04-22 Re-referred to Com. on L. GOV. referral-committee
• 2025-05-01 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.) (April 30). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2025-05-14 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 10. Noes 0.) (May 14). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-05-15 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2025-05-27 Read third time and amended. Ordered to third reading. (Page 1745.) amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2025-06-02 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 65. Noes 5. Page 1813.) passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2025-06-03 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2025-06-11 Referred to Coms. on HOUSING and L. GOV. referral-committee
• 2025-07-02 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on L. GOV. (Ayes 9. 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 L. GOV. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee
• 2025-07-16 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 5. Noes 2.) (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 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
• 2025-09-03 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 31. Noes 9. Page 2437.). passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2025-09-03 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending.
• 2025-09-08 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 62. Noes 5. Page 3018.). amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-09-15 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4:30 p.m.
• 2025-10-10 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2025-10-10 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 500, Statutes of 2025. became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/e5318d98-8544-4706-8944-fd9b4f8ac8cd. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).