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Bill	Planning and zoning: general plan: judicial challenges.	The Planning and Zoning Law requires each county and city to adopt a comprehensive, long-term general plan for the physical development of the county or city, and of certain land outside its boundaries, and requires the general plan to contain specified mandatory elements. Existing law specifies that these provisions generally do not apply to a charter city, but requires a charter city to adopt a general plan that contains the mandatory elements, among other things. Existing law prescribes a process to challenge the validity of a general plan. Among other things, existing law requires a petitioner to request a hearing or trial, as specified. Existing law requires a court to set a date for the hearing or trial to be heard no later than 120 days after the filing of the request, as specified. Existing law authorizes a court to continue for a reasonable time the date of the hearing or trial upon written motion and finding of good cause. Existing law requires a court to grant the petitioner temporary relief if the court grants a continuance to a respondent, as specified.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20252026	SB 786	California SB 786 (20252026)	bill	Planningandzoning generalplan judicialchallenges	enacted	Arreguín	7	30	8	2025-02-21	2025-10-10	openstates	ocd-bill/ab8c3494-ab8b-4e55-aa4f-d8b23c13f375	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260SB786	9fcbce032f15e2264459d411a1c2ed7f419136242f7455db753e56394202f58a	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California SB 786 (20252026) — Planning and zoning: general plan: judicial challenges.

The Planning and Zoning Law requires each county and city to adopt a comprehensive, long-term general plan for the physical development of the county or city, and of certain land outside its boundaries, and requires the general plan to contain specified mandatory elements. Existing law specifies that these provisions generally do not apply to a charter city, but requires a charter city to adopt a general plan that contains the mandatory elements, among other things. Existing law prescribes a process to challenge the validity of a general plan. Among other things, existing law requires a petitioner to request a hearing or trial, as specified. Existing law requires a court to set a date for the hearing or trial to be heard no later than 120 days after the filing of the request, as specified. Existing law authorizes a court to continue for a reasonable time the date of the hearing or trial upon written motion and finding of good cause. Existing law requires a court to grant the petitioner temporary relief if the court grants a continuance to a respondent, as specified.

Version chain

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

1. 02/21/25 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 03/25/25 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
3. 05/01/25 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
4. 09/02/25 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
5. 10/10/25 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
6. SB786 (committee substitute) — source
7. 09/12/25 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 11–2 (pass) · upper
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Judiciary] — 7–3 (pass) · lower
• Unfinished Business SB786 Arreguín et al. Concurrence — 30–10 (pass) · upper
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 9–3 (pass) · lower
• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Judiciary] — 5–2 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended. — 11–4 (pass) · lower
• SB 786 Arreguín Senate Third Reading By Bryan — 58–19 (pass) · lower
• 3rd Reading — 28–10 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Arreguín — primary (person)
• Bryan — coauthor (person)
• Wicks — coauthor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2025-02-21 Introduced. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. introduction
• 2025-02-24 From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 24.
• 2025-02-24 Read first time. reading-1
• 2025-03-12 Referred to Com. on RLS. referral-committee
• 2025-03-25 From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on RLS. amendment-passage, committee-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee
• 2025-04-02 Re-referred to Coms. on L. GOV., JUD., and APPR. referral-committee
• 2025-04-04 Set for hearing April 23.
• 2025-04-10 Set for hearing April 29 in JUD. pending receipt.
• 2025-04-23 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on JUD. (Ayes 5. Noes 2. Page 871.) (April 23). Re-referred to Com. on JUD. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2025-04-30 From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 11. Noes 2. Page 943.) (April 29). amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-05-01 Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2, 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
• 2025-05-29 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 28. Noes 10. Page 1334.) Ordered to the Assembly. passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2025-05-29 In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. reading-1
• 2025-06-16 Referred to Coms. on H. & C.D. and JUD. referral-committee
• 2025-07-03 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on JUD. (Ayes 7. Noes 3.) (July 2). Re-referred to Com. on JUD. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2025-07-16 Coauthors revised.
• 2025-07-16 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 9. Noes 3.) (July 15). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2025-08-20 August 20 set for first hearing. Placed on APPR. suspense file.
• 2025-08-29 From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 11. Noes 4.) (August 29). amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-09-02 Read second time and amended. Ordered to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
• 2025-09-03 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2025-09-08 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 58. Noes 19. Page 3010.) Ordered to the Senate. passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2025-09-08 In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
• 2025-09-09 Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 30. Noes 10. Page 2719.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling. amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-09-17 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 2 p.m.
• 2025-10-10 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2025-10-10 Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 526, Statutes of 2025. became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/ab8c3494-ab8b-4e55-aa4f-d8b23c13f375. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).