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type: "Bill"
title: "Housing: underutilized state buildings."
description: "Existing law establishes in the state government, in the Government Operations Agency, the Department of General Services and provides that the department is under the control of an executive officer known as the Director of General Services. Existing law requires each state agency annually to review certain proprietary state lands over which it has jurisdiction to determine what land, if any, is in excess of its foreseeable needs and report this in writing to the department. Existing law requires the department to create a database of information on lands identified by a local government as suitable and available for residential development and information regarding the state lands determined or declared excess, as specified. Existing law requires the department to report to the Legislature annually the land declared excess and to request authorization to dispose of the land by sale or otherwise. Existing law authorizes the department to dispose of real property declared surplus by the Legislature, as specified."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20212022"
identifier: "AB 2592"
citation: "California AB 2592 (20212022)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Housing: underutilized state buildings."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["McCarty"]
version_count: 8
action_count: 30
vote_count: 8
first_action: "2022-02-18"
last_action: "2022-09-19"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/bdd1ed71-44f2-49eb-91fe-275c58165d34"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB2592"
source_hash: "c25bfd799ffc1d2ebf1d2818d29e0c8a00fffaf34916c3a989fdd900e724c1eb"
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 2592 (20212022) — Housing: underutilized state buildings.
Existing law establishes in the state government, in the Government Operations Agency, the Department of General Services and provides that the department is under the control of an executive officer known as the Director of General Services. Existing law requires each state agency annually to review certain proprietary state lands over which it has jurisdiction to determine what land, if any, is in excess of its foreseeable needs and report this in writing to the department. Existing law requires the department to create a database of information on lands identified by a local government as suitable and available for residential development and information regarding the state lands determined or declared excess, as specified. Existing law requires the department to report to the Legislature annually the land declared excess and to request authorization to dispose of the land by sale or otherwise. Existing law authorizes the department to dispose of real property declared surplus by the Legislature, as specified.
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **02/18/22 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB2592&version=20210AB259299INT)
2. **03/24/22 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB2592&version=20210AB259298AMD)
3. **04/07/22 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB2592&version=20210AB259297AMD)
4. **04/18/22 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB2592&version=20210AB259296AMD)
5. **04/25/22 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB2592&version=20210AB259295AMD)
6. **09/19/22 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB2592&version=20210AB259293CHP)
7. **AB2592** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB2592)
8. **08/25/22 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB2592&version=20210AB259294ENR)
## Votes
- Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on [Housing and Community Development] — **61** (pass) · lower
- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with recommendation: To Consent Calendar — **80** (pass) · lower
- AB 2592 McCarty Assembly Third Reading — **760** (pass) · lower
- Do pass. — **150** (pass) · lower
- Special Consent AB2592 — **400** (pass) · upper
- Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with the recommendation: To Consent Calendar — **130** (pass) · upper
- Do pass — **70** (pass) · upper
- Placed on suspense file — **70** (pass) · upper
## Sponsors
- McCarty — primary (person)
- Quirk-Silva — coauthor (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2022-02-18** Introduced. To print. `introduction`
- **2022-02-19** From printer. May be heard in committee March 21.
- **2022-03-24** Referred to Coms. on A. & A.R. and H. & C.D. `referral-committee`
- **2022-03-24** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on A. & A.R. Read second time and amended. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2`
- **2022-03-28** Re-referred to Com. on A. & A.R. `referral-committee`
- **2022-04-06** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on H. & C.D. (Ayes 6. Noes 1.) (April 6). `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2022-04-07** Read second time and amended. `amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2`
- **2022-04-18** Re-referred to Com. on H. & C.D. `referral-committee`
- **2022-04-18** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on H. & C.D. Read second time and amended. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2`
- **2022-04-19** Re-referred to Com. on H. & C.D. `referral-committee`
- **2022-04-20** In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
- **2022-04-25** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on H. & C.D. Read second time and amended. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2`
- **2022-04-26** Re-referred to Com. on H. & C.D. `referral-committee`
- **2022-04-28** Coauthors revised.
- **2022-04-28** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 8. Noes 0.) (April 27). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
- **2022-05-18** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 15. Noes 0.) (May 18). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2022-05-19** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2022-05-25** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 76. Noes 0. Page 4955.) `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2022-05-26** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2022-06-08** Referred to Com. on G.O. `referral-committee`
- **2022-06-29** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 13. Noes 0.) (June 28). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
- **2022-08-08** In committee: Referred to suspense file. `referral-committee`
- **2022-08-11** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (August 11). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2022-08-11** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2022-08-22** Ordered to special consent calendar.
- **2022-08-23** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 40. Noes 0. Page 4982.). `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2022-08-23** In Assembly. Ordered to Engrossing and Enrolling. `committee-passage`
- **2022-08-30** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.
- **2022-09-19** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2022-09-19** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 439, Statutes of 2022. `became-law`
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/bdd1ed71-44f2-49eb-91fe-275c58165d34`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).