republic-os/legislation/us/states/ca/20232024/ab-2553.md

---
type: "Bill"
title: "Housing development: major transit stops: vehicular traffic impact fees."
description: "Existing law, the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) requires a lead agency, as defined, to prepare, or cause to be prepared, and certify the completion of an environmental impact report on a project that it proposes to carry out or approve that may have a significant effect on the environment or to adopt a negative declaration if it finds that the project will not have that effect. CEQA also requires a lead agency to prepare a mitigated negative declaration for a project that may have a significant effect on the environment if revisions in the project would avoid or mitigate that effect and there is no substantial evidence that the project, as revised, would have a significant effect on the environment."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20232024"
identifier: "AB 2553"
citation: "California AB 2553 (20232024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Housing development", "major transit stops", "vehicular traffic impact fees"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Friedman"]
version_count: 7
action_count: 23
vote_count: 7
first_action: "2024-02-14"
last_action: "2024-09-19"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/9e384fbf-ab27-4644-869c-4935c9e66765"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB2553"
source_hash: "89f9a71a244b6fd28e0000d4b8bbd315e3cdd4991bed614b453cb65ca6368636"
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 2553 (20232024) — Housing development: major transit stops: vehicular traffic impact fees.

Existing law, the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) requires a lead agency, as defined, to prepare, or cause to be prepared, and certify the completion of an environmental impact report on a project that it proposes to carry out or approve that may have a significant effect on the environment or to adopt a negative declaration if it finds that the project will not have that effect. CEQA also requires a lead agency to prepare a mitigated negative declaration for a project that may have a significant effect on the environment if revisions in the project would avoid or mitigate that effect and there is no substantial evidence that the project, as revised, would have a significant effect on the environment.

## Version chain

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

1. **02/14/24 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB2553&version=20230AB255399INT)
2. **04/15/24 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB2553&version=20230AB255398AMD)
3. **06/12/24 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB2553&version=20230AB255397AMD)
4. **08/13/24 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB2553&version=20230AB255396AMD)
5. **09/19/24 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB2553&version=20230AB255394CHP)
6. **AB2553** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB2553)
7. **08/26/24 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB2553&version=20230AB255395ENR)

## Votes

- Do pass. To Consent Calendar. — **9–0** (pass) · lower
- AB 2553 Friedman Concurrence in Senate Amendments — **61–0** (pass) · lower
- AB 2553 Friedman Consent Calendar Second Day — **73–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Housing] — **5–1** (pass) · upper
- Do pass — **8–1** (pass) · upper
- Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on [Housing and Community Development] — **9–0** (pass) · lower
- 3rd Reading AB2553 Friedman By Padilla — **34–4** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Friedman — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-02-14** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
- **2024-02-15** From printer. May be heard in committee March 16.
- **2024-03-21** Referred to Coms. on L. GOV. and H. & C.D. `referral-committee`
- **2024-04-11** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on H. & C.D. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.) (April 10). `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2024-04-15** Read second time and amended. `amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2`
- **2024-04-16** Re-referred to Com. on H. & C.D. `referral-committee`
- **2024-04-24** From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.) (April 24). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-04-25** Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2024-05-02** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 73. Noes 0. Page 5091.) `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2024-05-02** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2024-05-15** Referred to Coms. on L. GOV. and HOUSING. `referral-committee`
- **2024-06-11** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on HOUSING. (Ayes 5. Noes 1.) (June 11). `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2024-06-12** Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on HOUSING. `amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2024-07-03** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 8. Noes 1.) (July 2). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-08-05** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2024-08-13** Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. `amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2024-08-14** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2024-08-20** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 34. Noes 4. Page 5239.). `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2024-08-20** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after August 22 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
- **2024-08-22** Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 61. Noes 0. Page 6433.). `amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-08-28** 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 275, 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/9e384fbf-ab27-4644-869c-4935c9e66765`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).