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type: "Bill"
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title: "Housing element: governmental constraints: disclosure statement."
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description: "The Planning and Zoning Law requires a city or county to adopt a general plan for land use development 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."
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jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
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legislature: "California Legislature"
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session: "20252026"
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identifier: "AB 610"
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citation: "California AB 610 (20252026)"
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classification: ["bill"]
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subjects: ["Housingelement", "disclosurestatement", "governmentalconstraints"]
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status: "enacted"
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primary_sponsors: ["Alvarez"]
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version_count: 9
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action_count: 33
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vote_count: 10
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first_action: "2025-02-13"
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last_action: "2025-10-10"
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source: "openstates"
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source_identifier: "ocd-bill/3442bb22-cadc-4fd0-b646-e75886143546"
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source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB610"
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source_hash: "a789f7e832ad5e2107aeef5c931c1be583ed0040eae1b1b55a393185281099b9"
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vintage: "2026-07-01"
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source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
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retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
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confidence: "reported"
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tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-ca"]
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---
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# California AB 610 (20252026) — Housing element: governmental constraints: disclosure statement.
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The Planning and Zoning Law requires a city or county to adopt a general plan for land use development 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.
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## Version chain
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The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
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1. **02/13/25 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB610&version=20250AB61099INT)
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2. **04/10/25 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB610&version=20250AB61098AMD)
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3. **07/03/25 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB610&version=20250AB61097AMD)
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4. **07/17/25 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB610&version=20250AB61096AMD)
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5. **09/03/25 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB610&version=20250AB61095AMD)
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6. **09/05/25 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB610&version=20250AB61094AMD)
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7. **10/10/25 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB610&version=20250AB61092CHP)
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8. **AB610** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB610)
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9. **09/15/25 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB610&version=20250AB61093ENR)
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## Votes
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- Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **5–0** (pass) · upper
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- Do pass — **7–0** (pass) · upper
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- Do pass. — **13–0** (pass) · lower
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- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Local Government] — **11–0** (pass) · lower
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- Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Local Government] — **7–0** (pass) · upper
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- AB 610 Alvarez Concurrence in Senate Amendments — **73–1** (pass) · lower
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- 3rd Reading AB610 Alvarez By Grayson — **39–0** (pass) · upper
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- Placed on suspense file — **7–0** (pass) · upper
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- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **10–0** (pass) · lower
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- AB 610 Alvarez Assembly Third Reading — **72–1** (pass) · lower
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## Sponsors
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- Alvarez — primary (person)
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## Timeline
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The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
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- **2025-02-13** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
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- **2025-02-14** From printer. May be heard in committee March 16.
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- **2025-03-03** Referred to Coms. on H. & C.D. and L. GOV. `referral-committee`
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- **2025-03-18** In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
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- **2025-04-10** 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`
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- **2025-04-21** Re-referred to Com. on H. & C.D. `referral-committee`
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- **2025-04-24** Assembly Rule 56 suspended. (Page 1265.)
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- **2025-04-24** (Pending re-refer to Com. on L. GOV.)
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- **2025-04-28** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on L. GOV. (Ayes 11. Noes 0.) (April 24). Re-referred to Com. on L. GOV. `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
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- **2025-05-01** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 10. Noes 0.) (April 30). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
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- **2025-05-14** In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to suspense file. `referral-committee`
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- **2025-05-23** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 13. Noes 0.) (May 23). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
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- **2025-05-27** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
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- **2025-06-05** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 72. Noes 1. Page 2109.) `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
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- **2025-06-09** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
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- **2025-06-18** Referred to Coms. on HOUSING and L. GOV. `referral-committee`
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- **2025-07-02** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on L. GOV. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (July 1). `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage, referral-committee`
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- **2025-07-03** Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on L. GOV. `amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee`
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- **2025-07-16** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 5. Noes 0.) (July 16). `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage, referral-committee`
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- **2025-07-17** Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee`
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- **2025-08-18** In committee: Referred to suspense file. `referral-committee`
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- **2025-08-29** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (August 29). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
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- **2025-08-29** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
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- **2025-09-03** Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. `amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-3`
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- **2025-09-04** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
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- **2025-09-05** Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. `amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-3`
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- **2025-09-08** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
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- **2025-09-10** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 39. Noes 0. Page 2811.). `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
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- **2025-09-10** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending.
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- **2025-09-11** Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 73. Noes 1. Page 3295.). `amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
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- **2025-09-23** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.
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- **2025-10-10** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
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- **2025-10-10** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 494, Statutes of 2025. `became-law`
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## Source
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OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/3442bb22-cadc-4fd0-b646-e75886143546`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).
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