republic-os/legislation/us/states/ca/20192020/sb-242.md

---
type: "Bill"
title: "Land use applications: Department of Defense: points of contact."
description: "(1) The Planning and Zoning Law requires a city or county to adopt a general plan for land use development within its boundaries that includes, among other things, a housing element. Existing law requires a planning agency to refer any proposed action to adopt or substantially change a general plan to specified entities, including a branch of the United States Armed Forces if certain conditions are met, including the branch providing a California mailing address and the Department of Defense providing electronic maps of low-level flight paths to the Office of Planning and Research."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20192020"
identifier: "SB 242"
citation: "California SB 242 (20192020)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Land use applications: Department of Defense: points of contact."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Roth"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 22
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2019-02-11"
last_action: "2019-07-30"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/2b165bf7-8b49-4c63-9fcb-0f46a651663c"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB242"
source_hash: "2133265dead3269c16d65fb05dec4687452c9d2b37725bf0df7c84160b8715e1"
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 SB 242 (20192020) — Land use applications: Department of Defense: points of contact.

(1) The Planning and Zoning Law requires a city or county to adopt a general plan for land use development within its boundaries that includes, among other things, a housing element. Existing law requires a planning agency to refer any proposed action to adopt or substantially change a general plan to specified entities, including a branch of the United States Armed Forces if certain conditions are met, including the branch providing a California mailing address and the Department of Defense providing electronic maps of low-level flight paths to the Office of Planning and Research.

## Version chain

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

1. **02/11/19 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB242&version=20190SB24299INT)
2. **03/27/19 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB242&version=20190SB24298AMD)
3. **07/30/19 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB242&version=20190SB24296CHP)
4. **SB242** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB242)
5. **07/08/19 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB242&version=20190SB24297ENR)

## Votes

- Do pass. To Consent Calendar. — **15–0** (pass) · lower
- Consent Calendar SB242 — **37–0** (pass) · upper
- SB 242 Roth Consent Calendar Second Day — **70–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with the recommendation: To Consent Calendar — **6–0** (pass) · upper
- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with recommendation: To Consent Calendar — **8–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Roth — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-02-11** Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. `introduction, reading-1`
- **2019-02-12** From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 14.
- **2019-02-21** Referred to Com. on GOV. & F. `referral-committee`
- **2019-03-06** Set for hearing March 20.
- **2019-03-14** March 20 hearing postponed by committee.
- **2019-03-27** Set for hearing April 3.
- **2019-03-27** From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on GOV. & F. `reading-1, reading-2, amendment-passage, committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2019-04-03** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To consent calendar. (Ayes 6. Noes 0. Page 550.) (April 3). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2019-04-05** Set for hearing April 22.
- **2019-04-22** From committee: Be ordered to second reading pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8 and ordered to consent calendar. `committee-passage, reading-2`
- **2019-04-23** Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2019-04-25** Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 37. Noes 0. Page 823.) Ordered to the Assembly. `passage, reading-3, reading-1`
- **2019-04-25** In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. `reading-1`
- **2019-05-16** Referred to Com. on L. GOV. `referral-committee`
- **2019-06-19** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To consent calendar. (Ayes 8. Noes 0.) (June 19). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2019-06-26** From committee: Do pass. Ordered to consent calendar. (Ayes 15. Noes 0.) (June 26). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2019-06-27** Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2019-07-05** Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 70. Noes 0. Page 2548.) Ordered to the Senate. `passage, reading-3, reading-1`
- **2019-07-05** In Senate. Ordered to engrossing and enrolling.
- **2019-07-19** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 2 p.m.
- **2019-07-30** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2019-07-30** Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 142, Statutes of 2019.

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/2b165bf7-8b49-4c63-9fcb-0f46a651663c`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).