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Bill	Regional housing: public postsecondary education: changes in enrollment levels: California Environmental Quality Act.	(1) Existing law requires certain transportation planning agencies to prepare and adopt regional transportation plans directed at achieving a coordinated and balanced regional transportation system. Existing law requires each regional transportation plan to include a sustainable communities strategy prepared by each metropolitan planning organization in order to, among other things, identify areas within the region sufficient to house all the population of the region, including all economic segments of the population, over the course of the planning period of the regional transportation plan taking into account net migration into the region, population growth, household formation, and employment growth.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20252026	SB 486	California SB 486 (20252026)	bill	CaliforniaEnvironmentalQualityAct Regionalhousing changesinenrollmentlevels publicpostsecondaryeducation	enacted	Cabaldon	9	33	8	2025-02-19	2025-10-10	openstates	ocd-bill/a9918f4b-5c0c-4c59-aa1c-5b5bad64cb41	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260SB486	d759e97d0c956bce5df05b1fa25bf2f15b5c568384d477bab96d33f330c78677	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California SB 486 (20252026) — Regional housing: public postsecondary education: changes in enrollment levels: California Environmental Quality Act.

(1) Existing law requires certain transportation planning agencies to prepare and adopt regional transportation plans directed at achieving a coordinated and balanced regional transportation system. Existing law requires each regional transportation plan to include a sustainable communities strategy prepared by each metropolitan planning organization in order to, among other things, identify areas within the region sufficient to house all the population of the region, including all economic segments of the population, over the course of the planning period of the regional transportation plan taking into account net migration into the region, population growth, household formation, and employment growth.

Version chain

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

1. 02/19/25 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 04/03/25 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
3. 04/28/25 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
4. 07/17/25 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
5. 09/03/25 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
6. 09/05/25 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
7. 10/10/25 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
8. SB486 (committee substitute) — source
9. 09/13/25 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do pass. — 15–0 (pass) · lower
• 3rd Reading — 39–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Natural Resources] — 11–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 13–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 8–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Environmental Quality] — 11–0 (pass) · upper
• SB 486 Cabaldon Senate Third Reading By Fong — 79–0 (pass) · lower
• Unfinished Business SB486 Cabaldon Concurrence — 38–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Cabaldon — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2025-02-19 Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. introduction, reading-1
• 2025-02-20 From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 22.
• 2025-02-26 Referred to Coms. on HOUSING and E.Q. referral-committee
• 2025-03-20 Set for hearing April 1.
• 2025-04-02 From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on E.Q. (Ayes 11. Noes 0. Page 609.) (April 1). amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-04-03 Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on E.Q. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee
• 2025-04-08 Set for hearing April 23.
• 2025-04-22 April 23 hearing postponed by committee.
• 2025-04-23 Set for hearing April 30.
• 2025-04-28 From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on E.Q. amendment-passage, committee-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee
• 2025-05-01 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 8. Noes 0. Page 963.) (April 30). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2025-05-09 Set for hearing May 19.
• 2025-05-19 From committee: Be ordered to second reading pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8. committee-passage, reading-2
• 2025-05-20 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2025-05-27 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 39. Noes 0. Page 1250.) Ordered to the Assembly. passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2025-05-28 In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. reading-1
• 2025-06-05 Referred to Coms. on H. & C.D. and NAT. RES. referral-committee
• 2025-06-18 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on NAT. RES. (Ayes 11. Noes 0.) (June 18). Re-referred to Com. on NAT. RES. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2025-07-17 Assembly Rule 63 suspended. (Ayes 49. Noes 15. Page 2578.)
• 2025-07-17 From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 13. Noes 0.) (July 14). amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-07-17 Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee
• 2025-08-20 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 15. Noes 0.) (August 20). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-08-21 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2025-09-03 Read third time and amended. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2025-09-03 Ordered to third reading.
• 2025-09-05 Read third time and amended. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2025-09-05 Ordered to third reading.
• 2025-09-09 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 79. Noes 0. Page 3070.) Ordered to the Senate. passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2025-09-09 In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
• 2025-09-10 Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 38. Noes 0. Page 2831.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling. amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-09-22 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 11 a.m.
• 2025-10-10 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2025-10-10 Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 517, Statutes of 2025. became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/a9918f4b-5c0c-4c59-aa1c-5b5bad64cb41. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).