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---
type: "Bill"
title: "Planning and zoning: housing element: converted affordable housing units."
description: "Existing law, the Planning and Zoning Law, requires each city, county, and city and county to adopt a general plan that includes, among other things, a housing element. After a legislative body has adopted all or part of a general plan, existing law requires a planning agency among other things, to provide by April 1 of each year an annual report to specified entities that includes prescribed information, including the number of housing development applications received in the prior year, as specified, the number of units of housing demolished, and the number of new units of housing, as specified."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20252026"
identifier: "AB 670"
citation: "California AB 670 (20252026)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Planningandzoning", "convertedaffordablehousingunits", "housingelement"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Quirk-Silva"]
version_count: 8
action_count: 28
vote_count: 9
first_action: "2025-02-14"
last_action: "2025-10-13"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/fcda8726-7307-4bac-853a-3f089201a39f"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB670"
source_hash: "1820abc3a42f45569aacb73a5747325417cb59a59d888a7d77278364287740f3"
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 670 (20252026) — Planning and zoning: housing element: converted affordable housing units.
Existing law, the Planning and Zoning Law, requires each city, county, and city and county to adopt a general plan that includes, among other things, a housing element. After a legislative body has adopted all or part of a general plan, existing law requires a planning agency among other things, to provide by April 1 of each year an annual report to specified entities that includes prescribed information, including the number of housing development applications received in the prior year, as specified, the number of units of housing demolished, and the number of new units of housing, as specified.
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **02/14/25 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB670&version=20250AB67099INT)
2. **03/28/25 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB670&version=20250AB67098AMD)
3. **06/23/25 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB670&version=20250AB67097AMD)
4. **08/29/25 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB670&version=20250AB67096AMD)
5. **09/05/25 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB670&version=20250AB67095AMD)
6. **10/13/25 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB670&version=20250AB67093CHP)
7. **AB670** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB670)
8. **09/16/25 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB670&version=20250AB67094ENR)
## Votes
- Placed on suspense file — **70** (pass) · upper
- Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on [Local Government] — **100** (pass) · lower
- AB 670 Quirk-Silva Concurrence in Senate Amendments — **770** (pass) · lower
- Do pass as amended — **70** (pass) · upper
- Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **110** (pass) · upper
- Special Consent AB670 Quirk-Silva By Grayson — **400** (pass) · upper
- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **100** (pass) · lower
- Do pass. — **120** (pass) · lower
- AB 670 Quirk-Silva Assembly Third Reading — **740** (pass) · lower
## Sponsors
- Quirk-Silva — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2025-02-14** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
- **2025-02-15** From printer. May be heard in committee March 17.
- **2025-03-03** Referred to Coms. on H. & C.D. and L. GOV. `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-27** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on L. GOV. (Ayes 10. Noes 0.) (March 26). `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2025-03-28** Read second time and amended. `amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2`
- **2025-04-01** Re-referred to Com. on L. GOV. `referral-committee`
- **2025-04-10** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 10. Noes 0.) (April 9). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
- **2025-04-30** In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to suspense file. `referral-committee`
- **2025-05-23** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 12. Noes 0.) (May 23). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-05-27** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2025-06-03** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 74. Noes 0. Page 1977.) `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 Com. on HOUSING. `referral-committee`
- **2025-06-23** 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`
- **2025-07-02** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 11. Noes 0.) (July 1). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
- **2025-07-14** In committee: Referred to APPR. suspense file. `referral-committee`
- **2025-08-29** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (August 29). `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage`
- **2025-08-29** Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading. `amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2`
- **2025-09-02** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2025-09-05** 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** Ordered to special consent calendar.
- **2025-09-11** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 40. Noes 0. Page 2933.). `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2025-09-12** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending.
- **2025-09-12** Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 77. Noes 0. Page 3379.). `amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-09-24** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m.
- **2025-10-13** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2025-10-13** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 701, Statutes of 2025. `became-law`
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/fcda8726-7307-4bac-853a-3f089201a39f`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).