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Bill	General plans: Local Electrification Planning Act.	Existing law, the Planning and Zoning Law, requires a city or county to adopt a comprehensive general plan for the city's or county's physical development that includes various elements, including, among others, a land use element that designates the proposed general distribution and general location and extent of the uses of the land in specified categories, and a circulation element that identifies the location and extent of existing and proposed major thoroughfares, transportation routes, terminals, any military airports and ports, and other local public utilities and facilities, as specified.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20252026	AB 39	California AB 39 (20252026)	bill	Generalplans LocalElectrificationPlanningAct	enacted	Zbur	10	29	8	2024-12-02	2025-10-06	openstates	ocd-bill/7e9ff2ad-2379-4fa8-b5f3-fc0afd06619f	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB39	8a96e6cb2ac126ae65d4abeaef7c7a0628e3588080186d096483868956fac865	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 39 (20252026) — General plans: Local Electrification Planning Act.

Existing law, the Planning and Zoning Law, requires a city or county to adopt a comprehensive general plan for the city's or county's physical development that includes various elements, including, among others, a land use element that designates the proposed general distribution and general location and extent of the uses of the land in specified categories, and a circulation element that identifies the location and extent of existing and proposed major thoroughfares, transportation routes, terminals, any military airports and ports, and other local public utilities and facilities, as specified.

Version chain

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

1. 12/02/24 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 02/25/25 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 04/24/25 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
4. 05/27/25 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
5. 07/03/25 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
6. 07/17/25 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
7. 09/04/25 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
8. 10/06/25 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
9. AB39 (committee substitute) — source
10. 09/15/25 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 12–4 (pass) · upper
• Do pass. — 12–3 (pass) · lower
• AB 39 Zbur Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 65–10 (pass) · lower
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 16–0 (pass) · lower
• 3rd Reading AB39 Zbur et al. By Limón — 30–10 (pass) · upper
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Utilities and Energy] — 10–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Energy, Utilities and Communications] — 5–2 (pass) · upper
• AB 39 Zbur Assembly Third Reading — 65–10 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Zbur — primary (person)
• Allen — coauthor (person)
• Stern — coauthor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2024-12-02 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2024-12-03 From printer. May be heard in committee January 2.
• 2025-02-03 Referred to Com. on L. GOV. referral-committee
• 2025-02-25 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
• 2025-02-26 Re-referred to Com. on L. GOV. referral-committee
• 2025-04-10 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on U. & E. (Ayes 10. Noes 0.) (April 9). Re-referred to Com. on U. & E. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2025-04-24 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on U. & E. Read second time and amended. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
• 2025-04-28 Re-referred to Com. on U. & E. referral-committee
• 2025-05-01 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 16. Noes 0.) (April 30). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2025-05-21 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 12. Noes 3.) (May 21). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-05-22 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2025-05-27 Read third time and amended. Ordered to third reading. (Page 1745.) amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2025-06-03 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 65. Noes 10. Page 2022.) passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2025-06-04 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2025-06-18 Referred to Coms. on L. GOV. and E., U & C. referral-committee
• 2025-07-02 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on E., U & C. (Ayes 5. Noes 2.) (July 2). amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2025-07-03 Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on E., U & C. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee
• 2025-07-17 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 12. Noes 4.) (July 15). amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2025-07-17 Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee
• 2025-08-19 From committee: Be ordered to second reading pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8. committee-passage, reading-2
• 2025-08-20 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2025-09-04 Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2025-09-08 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2025-09-09 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 30. Noes 10. Page 2670.). passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2025-09-09 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending.
• 2025-09-11 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 65. Noes 10. Page 3283.). amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-09-23 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.
• 2025-10-06 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2025-10-06 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 356, Statutes of 2025. became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/7e9ff2ad-2379-4fa8-b5f3-fc0afd06619f. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).