republic-os/legislation/us/states/ca/20112012/ab-1103.md

---
type: "Bill"
title: "Land use: housing element."
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 very low and low-income households at affordable housing costs or affordable rents, as defined. In order for a unit to qualify for inclusion in the program, it must meet one of several, specified criteria."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20112012"
identifier: "AB 1103"
citation: "California AB 1103 (20112012)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Land use: housing element."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Huffman"]
version_count: 7
action_count: 22
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2011-02-18"
last_action: "2011-09-01"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/1f100928-f928-4224-920e-b8257f5e6f7b"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB1103"
source_hash: "01e185146870299bf4c5de67e5879b31a1fd05997e32f93dd6cfc0f5d7068e19"
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 1103 (20112012) — Land use: housing element.

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 very low and low-income households at affordable housing costs or affordable rents, as defined. In order for a unit to qualify for inclusion in the program, it must meet one of several, specified criteria.

## Version chain

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

1. **02/18/11 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB1103&version=20110AB110399INT)
2. **03/31/11 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB1103&version=20110AB110398AMD)
3. **05/04/11 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB1103&version=20110AB110397AMD)
4. **07/12/11 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB1103&version=20110AB110396AMD)
5. **09/01/11 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB1103&version=20110AB110394CHP)
6. **AB1103** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB1103)
7. **08/24/11 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB1103&version=20110AB110395ENR)

## Votes

- Special Consent #7 — **38–0** (pass) · upper
- Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on Local Government. — **7–0** (pass) · lower
- AB 1103 HUFFMAN Assembly Third Reading — **77–0** (pass) · lower
- AB 1103 HUFFMAN Concurrence in Senate Amendments — **76–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass as amended. — **9–0** (pass) · upper
- Do pass. — **9–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Huffman — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2011-02-18** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
- **2011-02-20** From printer. May be heard in committee March 22.
- **2011-03-31** Referred to Coms. on H. & C.D. and L. GOV. `referral-committee`
- **2011-03-31** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on H. & C.D. Read second time and amended. `reading-2, amendment-introduction, reading-1, amendment-passage`
- **2011-04-04** Re-referred to Com. on H. & C.D. `referral-committee`
- **2011-05-03** From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on L. GOV. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (April 27). `amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2011-05-04** Read second time and amended. `reading-2, reading-1, amendment-passage`
- **2011-05-05** Re-referred to Com. on L. GOV. `referral-committee`
- **2011-05-12** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.) (May 11). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2011-05-16** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2011-05-19** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 77. Noes 0. Page 1443.) `reading-3, reading-1, passage`
- **2011-05-19** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2011-06-02** Referred to Com. on T. & H. `referral-committee`
- **2011-07-11** From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.) (July 5). `amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2011-07-12** Read second time and amended. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1, amendment-passage`
- **2011-07-13** Ordered to special consent calendar.
- **2011-08-15** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 38. Noes 0. Page 1916.). `reading-3, reading-1, passage`
- **2011-08-15** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after August 17 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
- **2011-08-22** Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 76. Noes 0. Page 2484.). `committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage`
- **2011-08-26** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m.
- **2011-09-01** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2011-09-01** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 210, Statutes of 2011.

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/1f100928-f928-4224-920e-b8257f5e6f7b`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).