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---
type: "Bill"
title: "Housing Accountability Act: housing disapprovals: required local findings."
description: "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, commonly referred to as the Housing Element Law, prescribes requirements for a city's or county's preparation of, and compliance with, its housing element, and requires the Department of Housing and Community Development to review and determine whether the housing element substantially complies with the Housing Element Law, as specified."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20232024"
identifier: "AB 1893"
citation: "California AB 1893 (20232024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Housing Accountability Act", "housing disapprovals", "required local findings"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Wicks"]
version_count: 12
action_count: 37
vote_count: 10
first_action: "2024-01-23"
last_action: "2024-09-19"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/1fe357da-aa6a-4746-9f9a-0ac10fa5c52d"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB1893"
source_hash: "e2e08a1ea194b0eee7437becef9e3cecf4e714499d8fc24ebaefc315cc4104f7"
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 1893 (20232024) — Housing Accountability Act: housing disapprovals: required local findings.
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, commonly referred to as the Housing Element Law, prescribes requirements for a city's or county's preparation of, and compliance with, its housing element, and requires the Department of Housing and Community Development to review and determine whether the housing element substantially complies with the Housing Element Law, as specified.
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **01/23/24 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB1893&version=20230AB189399INT)
2. **04/01/24 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB1893&version=20230AB189398AMD)
3. **04/18/24 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB1893&version=20230AB189397AMD)
4. **04/30/24 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB1893&version=20230AB189396AMD)
5. **06/10/24 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB1893&version=20230AB189395AMD)
6. **06/20/24 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB1893&version=20230AB189394AMD)
7. **06/26/24 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB1893&version=20230AB189393AMD)
8. **08/21/24 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB1893&version=20230AB189392AMD)
9. **08/23/24 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB1893&version=20230AB189391AMD)
10. **09/19/24 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB1893&version=20230AB189389CHP)
11. **AB1893** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB1893)
12. **09/05/24 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB1893&version=20230AB189390ENR)
## Votes
- AB 1893 Wicks Concurrence in Senate Amendments — **50–9** (pass) · lower
- Placed on suspense file — **7–0** (pass) · upper
- Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **7–0** (pass) · lower
- 3rd Reading AB1893 Wicks By Skinner — **27–4** (pass) · upper
- Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **5–1** (pass) · upper
- Do pass. — **11–2** (pass) · lower
- AB 1893 Wicks Assembly Third Reading — **54–1** (pass) · lower
- Do pass — **5–1** (pass) · upper
- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Local Government] — **7–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Local Government] — **7–1** (pass) · upper
## Sponsors
- Wicks — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2024-01-23** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
- **2024-01-24** From printer. May be heard in committee February 23.
- **2024-02-05** Referred to Coms. on H. & C.D. and L. GOV. `referral-committee`
- **2024-04-01** 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`
- **2024-04-02** Re-referred to Com. on H. & C.D. `referral-committee`
- **2024-04-17** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on L. GOV. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (April 17). Re-referred to Com. on L. GOV. `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
- **2024-04-18** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on L. GOV. Read second time and amended. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2`
- **2024-04-22** Re-referred to Com. on L. GOV. `referral-committee`
- **2024-04-29** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (April 24). `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2024-04-30** Read second time and amended. `amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2`
- **2024-05-01** Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `referral-committee`
- **2024-05-15** In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to APPR. suspense file. `referral-committee`
- **2024-05-16** Joint Rule 62(a), file notice suspended. (Page 5215.)
- **2024-05-16** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 11. Noes 2.) (May 16). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-05-20** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2024-05-21** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 54. Noes 1. Page 5400.) `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2024-05-22** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2024-05-29** Referred to Coms. on HOUSING and L. GOV. `referral-committee`
- **2024-06-10** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on HOUSING. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2024-06-19** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on L. GOV. (Ayes 7. Noes 1.) (June 18). `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2024-06-20** Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on L. GOV. `amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2024-06-26** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on L. GOV. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2024-07-03** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 5. Noes 1.) (July 3). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
- **2024-07-29** In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
- **2024-08-12** In committee: Referred to APPR suspense file. `referral-committee`
- **2024-08-15** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 5. Noes 1.) (August 15). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-08-19** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2024-08-21** Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. `amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2024-08-22** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2024-08-23** Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. `amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2024-08-26** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2024-08-31** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 26. Noes 4.). `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2024-08-31** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending.
- **2024-08-31** Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 50. Noes 9.). `amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-09-12** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.
- **2024-09-19** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2024-09-19** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 268, Statutes of 2024. `became-law`
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/1fe357da-aa6a-4746-9f9a-0ac10fa5c52d`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).
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