republic-os/legislation/us/states/ca/20092010/ab-1867.md

---
type: "Bill"
title: "Land use: local planning: housing element program."
description: "The Planning and Zoning Law authorizes the Department of Housing and Community Development to allow a city or county to substitute the provision of units for up to 25% of the city's or county's obligation to identify adequate sites for any income category in its housing element if the city or county includes in its housing element a program committing the city or county to provide units in that income category within the city or county that will be made available through the provision of committed assistance, during the planning period covered by the element, to low- and very low income households at affordable housing costs or affordable rents, as defined. In order for a unit to qualify for inclusion in this program, it must meet one of several specified criteria, including the criterion of being located in a multifamily rental housing complex of 4 or more units, converted with committed assistance from nonaffordable to affordable by acquisition of the unit or the purchase of affordability covenant and restrictions for the unit, and not acquired by eminent domain, and constituting a net increase in the community's stock of low- and very low income housing."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20092010"
identifier: "AB 1867"
citation: "California AB 1867 (20092010)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Land use: local planning: housing element program."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Harkey"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 21
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2010-02-12"
last_action: "2010-09-27"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/d660932a-e877-47f8-b521-cc1fda28b941"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB1867"
source_hash: "be65b9a9e05e935f96a67389850468ec4c5a9c4114165602c1adb37e6c2cbf43"
vintage: "2026-07-01"
source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
confidence: "reported"
tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-ca"]
---

# California AB 1867 (20092010) — Land use: local planning: housing element program.

The Planning and Zoning Law authorizes the Department of Housing and Community Development to allow a city or county to substitute the provision of units for up to 25% of the city's or county's obligation to identify adequate sites for any income category in its housing element if the city or county includes in its housing element a program committing the city or county to provide units in that income category within the city or county that will be made available through the provision of committed assistance, during the planning period covered by the element, to low- and very low income households at affordable housing costs or affordable rents, as defined. In order for a unit to qualify for inclusion in this program, it must meet one of several specified criteria, including the criterion of being located in a multifamily rental housing complex of 4 or more units, converted with committed assistance from nonaffordable to affordable by acquisition of the unit or the purchase of affordability covenant and restrictions for the unit, and not acquired by eminent domain, and constituting a net increase in the community's stock of low- and very low income housing.

## Version chain

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

1. **02/12/10 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB1867&version=20090AB186799INT)
2. **04/26/10 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB1867&version=20090AB186798AMD)
3. **08/02/10 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB1867&version=20090AB186797AMD)
4. **09/27/10 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB1867&version=20090AB186795CHP)
5. **AB1867** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB1867)
6. **08/16/10 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB1867&version=20090AB186796ENR)

## Votes

- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on Housing and Community Development. — **pass** (pass) · lower
- Do pass, to Consent Calendar. — **pass** (pass) · lower
- AB 1867 HARKEY Consent Calendar Second Day — **pass** (pass) · lower
- AB 1867 HARKEY Concurrence in Senate Amendments — **pass** (pass) · lower
- Do pass as amended. — **pass** (pass) · upper
- Special Consent #30 AB1867 Harkey — **pass** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Harkey — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2010-02-12** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
- **2010-02-16** From printer. May be heard in committee March 18.
- **2010-02-25** Referred to Coms. on L. GOV. and H. & C.D. `referral-committee`
- **2010-04-22** From committee: Do pass, and re-refer to Com. on H. & C.D. Re-referred. (Ayes 6. Noes 2.) (April 21). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2010-04-26** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on H. & C.D. Read second time and amended. `amendment-introduction, reading-2, amendment-passage, reading-1`
- **2010-04-27** Re-referred to Com. on H. & C.D. `referral-committee`
- **2010-04-28** From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (April 28). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2010-04-29** Read second time. To Consent Calendar. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2010-05-06** Read third time, passed, and to Senate. (Ayes 74. Noes 0. Page 5050.) `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2010-05-06** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2010-05-20** Referred to Com. on T. & H. `referral-committee`
- **2010-06-16** In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
- **2010-07-15** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 8. Noes 0.) (June 29). `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage`
- **2010-08-02** Read second time and amended. Ordered to third reading. `amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1`
- **2010-08-04** Ordered to Special Consent Calendar.
- **2010-08-09** Read third time, passed, and to Assembly. (Ayes 34. Noes 0. Page 4413.) `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2010-08-09** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after August 11 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
- **2010-08-12** Senate amendments concurred in. To enrollment. (Ayes 78. Noes 0. Page 6156.) `amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2010-08-25** Enrolled and to the Governor at 2:50 p.m.
- **2010-09-25** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2010-09-27** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 367, Statutes of 2010.

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/d660932a-e877-47f8-b521-cc1fda28b941`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).