republic-os/legislation/us/states/ca/20232024/ab-1734.md

---
type: "Bill"
title: "Local Government: Surplus Land Act: exemptions."
description: "Existing law requires land to be declared surplus land or exempt surplus land, as supported by written findings, before a local agency takes any action to dispose of it consistent with the agency's policies or procedures. Existing law sets forth procedures for the disposal of surplus land, including, but not limited to, specified notice requirements, and provides that these procedures do not apply to exempt surplus land."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20232024"
identifier: "AB 1734"
citation: "California AB 1734 (20232024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Local Government", "Surplus Land Act", "exemptions"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Jones-Sawyer"]
version_count: 10
action_count: 35
vote_count: 10
first_action: "2023-02-17"
last_action: "2023-10-11"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/3fd32185-1ce6-4e3d-9afb-ab4f86b94fd5"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB1734"
source_hash: "783c1b7b6ac482a773074db13cecb1797dfb95815ab2ec44512aa5eb1742121c"
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 1734 (20232024) — Local Government: Surplus Land Act: exemptions.

Existing law requires land to be declared surplus land or exempt surplus land, as supported by written findings, before a local agency takes any action to dispose of it consistent with the agency's policies or procedures. Existing law sets forth procedures for the disposal of surplus land, including, but not limited to, specified notice requirements, and provides that these procedures do not apply to exempt surplus land.

## Version chain

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

1. **02/17/23 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB1734&version=20230AB173499INT)
2. **03/16/23 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB1734&version=20230AB173498AMD)
3. **03/30/23 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB1734&version=20230AB173497AMD)
4. **04/11/23 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB1734&version=20230AB173496AMD)
5. **04/20/23 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB1734&version=20230AB173495AMD)
6. **07/12/23 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB1734&version=20230AB173494AMD)
7. **09/08/23 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB1734&version=20230AB173493AMD)
8. **10/11/23 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB1734&version=20230AB173491CHP)
9. **AB1734** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB1734)
10. **09/18/23 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB1734&version=20230AB173492ENR)

## Votes

- Do pass — **7–0** (pass) · upper
- Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on [Local Government] — **7–0** (pass) · lower
- Placed on suspense file — **7–0** (pass) · upper
- 3rd Reading AB1734 Jones-Sawyer By Durazo — **40–0** (pass) · upper
- AB 1734 Jones-Sawyer Concurrence in Senate Amendments — **71–3** (pass) · lower
- AB 1734 Jones-Sawyer Assembly Third Reading — **79–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **11–0** (pass) · upper
- Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Housing] — **8–0** (pass) · upper
- Do pass. — **15–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **8–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Jones-Sawyer — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-02-17** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
- **2023-02-18** From printer. May be heard in committee March 20.
- **2023-03-16** Referred to Coms. on H. & C.D. and L. GOV. `referral-committee`
- **2023-03-16** 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`
- **2023-03-20** Re-referred to Com. on H. & C.D. `referral-committee`
- **2023-03-30** 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`
- **2023-04-03** Re-referred to Com. on H. & C.D. `referral-committee`
- **2023-04-11** 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`
- **2023-04-12** Re-referred to Com. on H. & C.D. `referral-committee`
- **2023-04-19** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on L. GOV. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (April 19). `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2023-04-20** Read second time and amended. `amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2`
- **2023-04-24** Re-referred to Com. on L. GOV. `referral-committee`
- **2023-04-27** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 8. Noes 0.) (April 26). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
- **2023-05-10** In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to APPR. suspense file. `referral-committee`
- **2023-05-18** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 15. Noes 0.) (May 18). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-05-18** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2023-05-31** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 79. Noes 0. Page 2044.) `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2023-06-01** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2023-06-14** Referred to Coms. on GOV. & F. and HOUSING. `referral-committee`
- **2023-06-28** In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
- **2023-07-06** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on HOUSING. (Ayes 8. Noes 0.) (July 5). Re-referred to Com. on HOUSING. `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
- **2023-07-11** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 11. Noes 0.) (July 10). `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2023-07-12** Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2023-08-09** In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
- **2023-08-21** In committee: Referred to APPR suspense file. `referral-committee`
- **2023-09-01** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (September 1). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-09-05** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2023-09-08** Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. `amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2023-09-11** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2023-09-14** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 40. Noes 0. Page 2790.). `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2023-09-14** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending.
- **2023-09-14** Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 71. Noes 3. Page 3603.). `amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-09-22** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 11:30 a.m.
- **2023-10-11** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2023-10-11** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 769, Statutes of 2023. `became-law`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/3fd32185-1ce6-4e3d-9afb-ab4f86b94fd5`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).