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type: "Bill"
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title: "Housing Accountability Act: housing development projects."
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description: "Existing law, the Housing Accountability Act, among other things, prohibits a local agency from disapproving, or conditioning approval in a manner that renders infeasible, a housing development project for very low, low-, or moderate-income households unless the local agency makes written findings as to one of certain sets of conditions, as specified. Existing law defines, for its purposes, a housing development project as a use consisting of, among other things, mixed-use developments consisting of residential and nonresidential uses meeting one of several conditions, including that at least 23 of the new or converted square footage is designated for residential use."
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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: "SB 838"
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citation: "California SB 838 (20252026)"
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classification: ["bill"]
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subjects: ["HousingAccountabilityAct", "housingdevelopmentprojects"]
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status: "enacted"
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primary_sponsors: ["Durazo"]
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version_count: 9
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action_count: 35
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vote_count: 7
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first_action: "2025-02-21"
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last_action: "2025-10-13"
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source: "openstates"
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source_identifier: "ocd-bill/7e93aea3-79a4-4d09-9780-0199cae2d3a3"
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source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260SB838"
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source_hash: "87a7f97fa8bd5c75f8a4ceb65221a83f88c5e5cfc82882165b6b104ec24eb746"
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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 SB 838 (20252026) — Housing Accountability Act: housing development projects.
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Existing law, the Housing Accountability Act, among other things, prohibits a local agency from disapproving, or conditioning approval in a manner that renders infeasible, a housing development project for very low, low-, or moderate-income households unless the local agency makes written findings as to one of certain sets of conditions, as specified. Existing law defines, for its purposes, a housing development project as a use consisting of, among other things, mixed-use developments consisting of residential and nonresidential uses meeting one of several conditions, including that at least 23 of the new or converted square footage is designated for residential use.
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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. **02/21/25 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260SB838&version=20250SB83899INT)
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2. **03/26/25 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260SB838&version=20250SB83898AMD)
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3. **05/01/25 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260SB838&version=20250SB83897AMD)
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4. **07/17/25 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260SB838&version=20250SB83896AMD)
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5. **09/03/25 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260SB838&version=20250SB83895AMD)
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6. **09/05/25 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260SB838&version=20250SB83894AMD)
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7. **10/13/25 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260SB838&version=20250SB83892CHP)
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8. **SB838** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260SB838)
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9. **09/18/25 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260SB838&version=20250SB83893ENR)
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## Votes
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- Do pass as amended. — **9–1** (pass) · lower
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- SB 838 Durazo Senate Third Reading By Carrillo — **58–17** (pass) · lower
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- Unfinished Business SB838 Durazo Concurrence — **26–9** (pass) · upper
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- 3rd Reading — **23–11** (pass) · upper
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- Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Local Government] — **9–2** (pass) · upper
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- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Local Government] — **8–2** (pass) · lower
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- Do pass — **5–1** (pass) · upper
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## Sponsors
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- Durazo — primary (person)
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## Timeline
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The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
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- **2025-02-21** Introduced. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. `introduction`
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- **2025-02-24** From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 24.
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- **2025-02-24** Read first time. `reading-1`
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- **2025-03-12** Referred to Com. on L. GOV. `referral-committee`
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- **2025-03-26** From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on L. GOV. `amendment-passage, committee-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee`
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- **2025-03-27** Withdrawn from committee.
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- **2025-03-27** Re-referred to Com. on RLS. `referral-committee`
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- **2025-04-02** Re-referred to Coms. on HOUSING and L. GOV. `referral-committee`
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- **2025-04-04** Set for hearing April 22.
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- **2025-04-08** Set for hearing May 7 in L. GOV. pending receipt.
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- **2025-04-23** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on L. GOV. (Ayes 9. Noes 2. Page 832.) (April 22). Re-referred to Com. on L. GOV. `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
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- **2025-05-01** From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on L. GOV. `amendment-passage, committee-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee`
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- **2025-05-07** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 5. Noes 1. Page 1039.) (May 7). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
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- **2025-05-08** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
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- **2025-06-02** Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 23. Noes 11. Page 1386.) Ordered to the Assembly. `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
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- **2025-06-03** In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. `reading-1`
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- **2025-06-09** Referred to Coms. on H. & C.D. and L. GOV. `referral-committee`
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- **2025-06-30** July 2 hearing postponed by committee.
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- **2025-07-07** Assembly Rule 56 suspended.
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- **2025-07-16** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on L. GOV. (Ayes 8. Noes 2.) (July 16). Re-referred to Com. on L. GOV. `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
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- **2025-07-17** Assembly Rule 63 suspended. (Ayes 49. Noes 15. Page 2578.)
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- **2025-07-17** From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 9. Noes 1.) (July 16). `amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
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- **2025-07-17** Read second time and amended. Ordered to second reading. `amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2`
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- **2025-08-18** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
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- **2025-09-03** Read third time and amended. `amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-3`
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- **2025-09-03** Ordered to third reading.
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- **2025-09-05** Assembly Rule 69(b)(1) suspended.
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- **2025-09-05** Read third time and amended. `amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-3`
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- **2025-09-05** Ordered to third reading.
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- **2025-09-11** Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 58. Noes 17. Page 3273.) Ordered to the Senate. `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
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- **2025-09-12** In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
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- **2025-09-12** Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 26. Noes 9. Page 2988.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling. `amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
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- **2025-09-23** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 2 p.m.
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- **2025-10-13** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
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- **2025-10-13** Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 789, 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/7e93aea3-79a4-4d09-9780-0199cae2d3a3`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).
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