republic-os/legislation/us/states/ca/20112012/ab-2308.md

---
type: "Bill"
title: "Land use: housing element: regional housing need."
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 2308"
citation: "California AB 2308 (20112012)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Land use: housing element: regional housing need."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Torres"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 19
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2012-02-24"
last_action: "2012-07-09"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/01d95cb7-bc59-486a-ba86-0dafbef7945e"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB2308"
source_hash: "70ffee64997427c3eee6532f5611a1707c5bd6ffc0707a5d99429b206d114617"
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 2308 (20112012) — Land use: housing element: regional housing need.

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. **02/24/12 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB2308&version=20110AB230899INT)
2. **03/29/12 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB2308&version=20110AB230898AMD)
3. **07/09/12 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB2308&version=20110AB230896CHP)
4. **AB2308** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB2308)
5. **06/21/12 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB2308&version=20110AB230897ENR)

## Votes

- Do pass, to Consent Calendar. — **6–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass and be placed on the Consent Calendar. — **9–0** (pass) · upper
- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on Housing and Community Development. — **9–0** (pass) · lower
- AB 2308 TORRES Consent Calendar Second Day — **75–0** (pass) · lower
- Consent Calendar 2nd — **36–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Torres — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2012-02-24** Introduced. To print. `introduction`
- **2012-02-26** From printer. May be heard in committee March 27.
- **2012-02-27** Read first time. `reading-1`
- **2012-03-29** Referred to Coms. on L. GOV. and H. & C.D. `referral-committee`
- **2012-03-29** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on L. GOV. Read second time and amended. `reading-2, amendment-introduction, reading-1, amendment-passage`
- **2012-04-09** Re-referred to Com. on L. GOV. `referral-committee`
- **2012-05-03** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on H. & C.D. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.) (May 2). Re-referred to Com. on H. & C.D. `referral-committee, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2012-05-09** From committee: Do pass. To consent calendar. (Ayes 6. Noes 0.) (May 9). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2012-05-10** Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2012-05-17** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 75. Noes 0. Page 4887.) `reading-3, reading-1, passage`
- **2012-05-17** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2012-05-24** Referred to Com. on T. & H. `referral-committee`
- **2012-06-13** From committee: Do pass. To consent calendar. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.) (June 12). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2012-06-14** Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2012-06-18** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 36. Noes 0. Page 3958.). `reading-3, reading-1, passage`
- **2012-06-18** In Assembly. Ordered to Engrossing and Enrolling. `committee-passage`
- **2012-06-28** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 11:15 a.m.
- **2012-07-09** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2012-07-09** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 58, Statutes of 2012.

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/01d95cb7-bc59-486a-ba86-0dafbef7945e`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).