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October 13, 2025 (Final Results after Governor Signings and Vetoes):
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Disaster Prevention
Planning
AB 261 (Quirk)
Authorizes state fire marshal to meet with local govt and public on fire hazard to assess and reduce risk. 8/17: Senate Approps. Held in Committee.
AB 300 (Lackey)
Requires wildfire hazard maps to be updated at least every 8 years. 8/17: Senate Approps. Held in Committee.
SB 629 (Durazo)
Designates any burned areas as Very High Fire Hazard zones, also requires defensible space inspections. 8/17: Assembly Approps. Passed Assembly. Vetoed.
SB 715 (Allen)
Shifts some of the RHNA allocation (housing production goals) from cities affected by or at very high risk of wildfire to other cities. Passed Senate, did not pass Assembly committee
Fuel Reduction
AB 404 (Sanchez)
Makes permanent the CEQA exemption for fuel reduction and other fire prevention activity. (exemption would otherwise expire in 2028). Held in Committee
AB 442 (Hadwick)
CEQA exemption for fuel reduction etc in communities that only have a single road in or out. Held in Committee
AB 758 (DeMaio)
Requires local agencies to assess fire risks on their land, and create 200 foot firebreaks at borders between private land and undeveloped public land. Failed committee vote
AB 1456 (Bryan)
Expands area for fuel management under an existing approved program. Senate Approps. Held in Committee.
AB 1467 (Hoover)
Waives fees and fines for tree removal if tree is fire risk. Held in Committee
Home Hardening
AB 368 (Ward)
Explores whether to adopt Passive House standards. 8/17: Senate Approps. Signed into law 10/1.
AB 389 (Wallis)
Tax credit for home hardening. Held in Committee
AB 888 (Calderon)
Grants for home hardening and other risk reduction. 8/17: Senate Approps. Signed into law 10/10.
AB 1143 (Bennett)
Home hardening certification program. 8/17: Senate Approps. Passed Senate. Vetoed.
AB 1455 (Bryan)
Mandatory ember resistant 5-foot buffer around buildings in very high fire hazard zones. 8/17: Senate Approps. Signed into law 10/13.
AB 1457 (Bryan)
Extends defensible space inspector training program. 8/17: Senate Approps. Held at Senate Floor.
SB 269 (Choi)
Income tax incentives for reducing fire risks. Held in Committee
SB 616 (Rubio)
Creates standards for community hardening. 8/17: Assembly Approps. Passed Assembly. Vetoed.
SB 815 (Allen)
Requires cities to create hardening retrofit policy in general plan. Held in Committee
Other Prevention
AB 441 (Hadwick)
Extends research and mitigation program. Passed Assembly, did not pass Senate committee
AB 925 (Addis)
Mobile home park emergency preparedness. Did not pass Assembly committee
AB 1102 (Boernor)
Requires sea level / groundwater rise risk assessment for development within 1000 feet of a contaminated site. Did not pass Assembly committee
SB 499 (Stern)
Allows park fees related to hazard mitigation to be required upfront instead of after Certificate of Occupancy. 8/17: Assembly Floor. Signed into law 10/10.
SB 655 (Stern)
Amended to start process for setting a safe maximum indoor temperature. Original version Updates building code for protection from extreme heat, and modifies electric rates to reduce costs of cooling. 8/17: Assembly Approps. Signed into law 10/10.
Disaster Relief
Tax Relief
AB 245 (Gipson)
Extends property tax relief and reassessment for victims of January 2025 wildfires. 8/17: Senate Approps. Signed into law 10/10.
AB 1416 (Ta)
Expands eligibility for property tax deferrals after emergencies. Signed into law by Governor on 7/28.
AB 1517 (Committee on Revenue and Tax)
Defers property tax until 4/10/2026 in zip codes affected by fires. Did not pass Assembly committee
SB 293 (Perez)
Extends from 6 months to 3 years the filing deadline for Prop 19 intergenerational assesssed value transfers for damaged property. 8/17: Assembly Approps. Signed into law 10/10.
SB 582 (Stern)
Licensing fee waivers for skilled nursing facilities and residential care facilities that were damaged/destroyed and are in process of being rebuilt. Also requires evacuation plans to be submitted to local government. 8/17:Assembly Approps. Signed into law 10/10.
SB 603 (Niello)
Allows counties to extend from 5 to 8 years the time someone who lost property has to transfer the assessment level to a replacement property. 8/17: Assembly Approps. Held in committee.
SB 663 (Allen)
Property tax relief — various extensions to deadlines for applying for reduced assessments. 8/17: Assembly Approps. Signed into law 10/10.
Tenant and Homeowner Protections
AB 238 (Harabedian)
Mortgage forbearance for owners of buildings with up to 4 units with wildfire-related financial hardship. 8/17: Assembly Approps. Signed into law 9/22.
AB 262 (Caloza)
Individual relief grants, including housing assistance. Passed Assembly, did not pass Senate committee
AB 299 (Gabriel)
Allows hotels & short term rentals to rent long-term to wildfire victims without it becoming regulated like a normal long term tenant. 8/17: Senate Floor. Signed into law 10/10.
AB 311 (McKinnor)
Allow tenants to temporary add a roommate if person is someone displaced by disaster without amending lease. The roomate would not get full tenancy status. Passed Assembly, did not pass Senate committee
AB 851 (McKinnor)
Bans unsolicited offers to buy property in LA fire areas until 1/1/2027. 8/17: Senate Approps. Signed into law 10/10.
SB 36 (Umberg)
Expands price gouging bans, includes requiring housing listing platforms (rental and for sale) to notify government if listings violate the 10% anti-gouging rule. 8/17: Assembly Approps. Passed Assembly. Vetoed.
SB 368 (Smallwood-Cuevas)
More enforcement against price gouging during an emergency, partnerships between state Dept of Justice and local district attorneys. Did not pass Senate committee
SB 610 (Perez)
Amended: protections for mobile home tenants. Original version: Mortgage forbearance, rent refunds, mobile home right of return and temporary rent control, extended court timelines for evictions. 8/17: Assembly Approps. Signed into law 10/10.
SB 641 (Ashby)
Bans unsolicited purchase offers in disaster area for less than fair market value. Requires hazardous waste certifications for debris removal contractors. 8/17: Assembly Approps. Passed Assembly. Vetoed.
SB 658 (Perez)
Program for notifying local government and nonprofits of opportunities to buy property in zip codes affected by Jan 2025 fires. Did not pass Senate committee
Disaster Rebuilding
Permit Streamlining
AB 239 (Harabedian)
Creates task force to coordinate and streamline rebuilding in LA. 8/17: Senate Approps. Passed Senate. Vetoed.
AB 738 (Tangipa)
Waives rooftop solar requirement for low income homeowners if house built before PV was required. 8/17: Senate Approps. Passed Senate. Vetoed.
AB 818 (Avila Farias)
Faster permits for rebuilding after an emergency. 8/17: Senate Approps. Signed into law 10/10.
AB 1385 (Petrie-Norris)
Overrides certain HOA rules for rebuilding after the January 2025 wildfires. 8/17: Senate Approps. Held in committee
SB 625 (Wahab)
Overrides HOA rules and other deed restrictions that would prohibit rebuilding an existing structure, streamlines approvals for rebuilding. 8/17: Assembly Approps. Signed into law 10/10.
SB 676 (Limon)
CEQA streamlining. 8/17: Assembly Approps. Signed into law 10/10.
Other Rebuilding
AB 292 (Gallagher)
Prioritizes funding and assistance for infrastructure and housing recovery. Did not pass Assembly committee
AB 338 (Solache)
Funding to train people to rebuild. 8/17: Senate Approps. Signed into law 10/10.
AB 783 (Caloza)
Authorizes state to bulk buy materials for rebuilding. Did not pass Assembly committee
AB 797 (Harabedian)
Authorizes state to stabilize property values by issuing a tradable security to buy and manage residential land. 8/17: Senate Approps. Vetoed.
SB 237 (Grayson)
Requires disclosure of names and license number of contractors that worked on rebuilding a house after a disaster. Amended, no longer about housing.
SB 522 (Wahab)
Requires a building that replaces a building covered by AB1482 destroyed by disaster to also have AB1482 protections applied. Amended to be only the just cause protections, and not the rent cap. 8/17: Assembly Floor. Held at floor.
Insurance
Funding and Governance
AB 226 (Calderon)
Authorizes bonds to fund FAIR Plan (Fair Access to Insurance Requirements, a insurance policy of last resort if a owner is unable to get regular insurance) if a disaster causes FAIR to run out of money. 8/17: Senate Approps. Signed into law 10/9.
AB 234 (Calderon)
Puts two legislators on the FAIR Plan governing committee. 8/17: Senate Floor. Signed into law 10/9.
AB 567 (DeMaio)
Would have state pay for any insurance rate increase over 7%, also removes tax on insurance for residential property until 2030. Held in Committee
Policyholder Rights
AB 69 (Calderon)
Require insurance brokers to determine if a FAIR Plan policy can be moved to a voluntary market insurance company before the policy is renewed. Passed Assembly, did not pass Senate committee
AB 75 (Calderon)
30-day notice to policyholder for residential insurance aerial photography, unless a claim has already been submitted. 8/17: Senate Approps. Held in Committee.
AB 290 (Bauer-Kahan)
Creates automatic payment system for the FAIR Plan. 8/17: Senate Approps. Signed into law 10/9.
AB 493 (Harabedian)
Gives homeowners the interest earned on insurance payouts held in escrow. 8/17: Passed Senate 35–0. Back to Assembly for concurrence of Senate amendments. Signed into law 8/29.
AB 570 (Calderon)
Requires fire insurers provide copy of policy in 15 days rather than 30 after a loss. Passed Assembly, did not pass Senate committee
SB 495 (Allen)
Amended. Requires 60% payout of contents coverage to be paid out even without detailed inventory list if loss is related to a state of emergency. Original version would have paid out 100%. Also gives consumers more time to provide proof of loss. 8/17: Assembly Approps. Signed into law 10/10.
SB 525 (Jones)
Expands FAIR plan eligibility to mobile / manufactured homes. 8/17: Assembly Approps. Signed into law 10/9.
Risk Reduction
AB 1 (Connolly)
Updates insurance regulations to include building hardening and community wide wildfire mitigation. 8/17: Senate Approps. Signed into law 10/9.
SB 429 (Cortese)
Funds research into wildfire risks to inform insurance rates and prevention. 8/17: Assembly Approps. Signed into law 10/10.
Homeownership
Consumer Protections
AB 455 (Ortega)
Requires disclosure of past smoking when selling houses. Original version also required disclosing vaping, at one point this was amended out but it was put back in to the final bill. 8/17: Senate Approps. Signed into law 10/6.
AB 723 (Pellerin)
Requires disclosure for digitally altered images in real estate ads. 8/17: Senate Approps. Signed into law 10/10.
AB 739 (Jackson)
Requires HOA managers to have a real estate license. Did not pass Assembly committee
SB 410 (Grayson)
Requires disclosure to condo buyers of balcony inspection reports. 8/17: Assembly Floor. Signed into law 10/10.
Financial Assistance
AB 57 (McKinnor)
Assistance for descendents of formerly enslaved people. 8/17: Senate Approps. Passed Senate. Vetoed.
AB 62 (McKinnor)
Return of property or other compensation for people who had property taken by racially motivated eminent domain. 8/17: Senate Approps. Passed Senate. Vetoed.
AB 595 (Carrillo)
Subsidies for building for-sale housing for moderate/middle income. Did not pass Assembly committee
AB 801 (Bonta)
Encourages banks to offer loans in low and moderate income communities. Passed Assembly, did not pass Senate committee
SB 284 (Seyarto)
Expands Prop 19’s family home or family farm transfer exception so that heirs who each inherit part of the property can sell their share to each other without triggering reassessment. 8/17: Assembly Approps. Held in Committee.
SB 592 (Smallwood-Cuevas)
No property tax reassessment when tenants form a nonprofit or limited equity housing co-op to buy their building. Did not pass Senate committee
Property Sales
AB 1158 (Chen)
Amends 2020’s SB 1079 on foreclosure sales. Removes right of first refusal for prospective homeowners & nonprofits. Only existing tenants / a nonprofit working with existing tenants would have the right of first refusal to match a purchase offer. Did not pass Assembly committee
AB 1240 (Lee)
Bans corporations from buying additional houses if they already own 1,000 or more. Passed Assembly, did not pass Senate committee
AB 1406 (Ward)
Allows deposits paid to buy a subdivided lot to be released from escrow earlier to the developer. Did not pass Assembly committee
SB 722 (Wahab)
Bans corporate purchasing of new houses, townhouses, and condos. Bans bulk sales of existing houses/TH/condo (over 4 homes) to a corporation. Requires disclosing who owns the business when a business buys houses, townhouses, or condos. Did not pass Senate committee
Homelessness
Funding
ACA 4 (Jackson)
Directs 5% of general fund to homelessness and housing. Did not pass Assembly committee
AB 255 (Haney)
Funds supportive-recovery housing (Permanent, Housing first, but emphasizes abstinence from substance use). 8/17: Senate Approps. Passed Senate. Vetoed.
AB 790 (Avila Farias)
Prioritizes funding for single women with children — Original version set aside 10% of housing and homelessness funding for this purpose, final bill does not have percentage. 8/17: Senate Approps. Signed into law 10/10.
AB 804 (Wicks)
Medi-Cal benefits for helping people find and keep housing. Did not pass Assembly committee
AB 1432 (Hoover)
Allows use of some funds for shelters that aren’t Housing First. Housing First is a policy that gets people indoors without requirements such as not using substances. Did not pass Assembly committee
SB 16 (Blakespear)
Requires counties to fund half the operating costs of shelters run by cities. Passed Senate, did not pass Assembly committee
Permit Streamlining
AB 1162 (Bonta)
Requires someone who files lawsuit against new shelter to post a bond to cover cost of delay to project. 8/17: Senate Approps. Held in Committee.
SB 340 (Laird)
Clarifies the requirement for cities to zone for shelters that it includes approving onsite support services onsite. 8/17: Assembly Approps. Signed into law 10/10.
Miscellaneous
AB 654 (Caloza)
Homelessness resource hotline similar to 311. 8/17: Senate Approps. Held in Committee.
AB 678 (Lee)
Interagency Council on Homelessness coordination to better serve the LGBTQ community. 8/17: Senate Approps. Signed into law 10/10.
AB 750 (Quirk-Silva)
Code enforcement inspections for homeless shelters. Included in Budget Bill — Signed by Governor
AB 820 (Pellerin)
Bans cities/counties from dropping off homeless people in another jurisdiction unless shelter or housing is coordinated ahead of time. Did not pass Assembly committee
SB 606 (Becker)
Requires cities/counties to plan to get to “functional zero unsheltered” — having enough housing/shelter space for everyone unsheltered. 8/17: Assembly Approps. Held in Committee.
SB 634 (Perez)
Amended to ban criminalization of assisting the homeless. Original version was to ban the criminalization of homelessness. 8/17: Assembly Floor. Signed into law 10/10.
Encampment Removal
AB 20 (DeMaio)
Bans encampments within 500 feet of school, park, or transit stop, and anywhere in a city if a shelter bed is available. Did not pass Assembly committee
AB 897 (DeMaio)
Makes it easier to remove squatters from private property. Did not pass Assembly committee
SB 448 (Umberg)
Makes it easier to remove squatters from residential property. Did not pass Senate committee
SB 569 (Blakespear)
Directs Caltrans to work with local govt to remove and prevent encampments on Caltrans property. Passed Senate, did not pass Assembly committee
SB 692 (Arreguin)
Allows cities to create vehicle buyback program for vehicular homelessness paired with housing offers, and also allow emergency removal of hazardous vehicles. 8/17: Assembly Approps. Held in Committee.
SB 748 (Richardson)
Funding for removing cars and RVs used as shelter on streets, and for creating safe parking sites. 8/17: Assembly Approps. Signed into law 10/10.
Planning / Housing Elements
Affordable Housing
AB 36 (Soria)
Makes it easier for cities under 25,000 and counties under 200,000 to get a Prohousing designation that then helps them get affordable housing funding.. 8/17: Senate Approps. Signed into law 10/10.
AB 670 (Quirk-Silva)
Allows market rate housing converted to affordable housing to count towards RHNA goals for lower income housing production. 8/17: Senate Approps. Signed into law 10/13.
AB 726 (Avila Farias)
Allows renovated affordable units to count towards RHNA goals, if bldg at least 15 years old and receives at least $60k/unit of public funds. 8/17: Senate Approps. Signed into law 10/13.
SB 262 (Wahab)
Adds policies such as safe parking programs and low barrier shelters to the list of prohousing policies that qualify cities for additional housing funding. Original version before amendments also included tenant protection policies as qualifying policies. 8/17: Assembly Approps. Signed into law 10/10.
Zoning
AB 610 (Alvarez)
Amended. Requires cities to disclose recent and anticipated constraints on housing. Original version limited new zoning constraints on housing unless previously disclosed in a general plan housing element. 8/17: Senate Approps. Signed into law 10/10.
AB 650 (Papan)
More time for RHNA allocation process of regional demand to individual cities. Previous version also had shorter window for builder remedy projects to be submitted, this part was amended out. 8/17: Senate Approps. Passed Senate. Vetoed.
AB 906 (Mark Gonzalez)
Requires a meaningful amount of upzoning to take place in higher income, racially exclusive areas. 8/17: Senate Approps. Held in committee.
AB 1152 (Patterson)
Allows conservation easements as long as it doesn’t affect ability to meet housing element goals and does not reduce area of high density zoning. Amended — No longer about housing
AB 1275 (Elhawary)
Starts the RHNA process earlier and coordinates it with transportation planning. 8/17: Senate Floor. Signed into law 10/10.
AB 1407 (Wallis)
Extends deadline to rezone for a housing element from 12 to 18 months. Held in Committee
SB 233 (Seyarto)
Requires HCD to meet with Council of Governments earlier before a RHNA cycle (38 months instead of 26 months). 8/17: Assembly Approps. Signed into law 10/10.
SB 299 (Cabaldon)
Makes it easier for cities to revise zoning. Held in Committee
SB 507 (Limon)
Allows local govt to enter agreements with tribes to have new tribal housing developments count towards the city’s RHNA rezoning goals. 8/17: Assembly Approps. Signed into law 10/10.
SB 786 (Arreguin)
Clairifies ambiguities in housing element laws. 8/17: Assembly Approps. Signed into law 10/10.
Production
Coastal
AB 357 (Alvarez)
Amended to be a faster review process for Coastal permits for student and faculty/staff housing. Amended to also let the college decide how much parking is needed, rather than the Coastal Commission. Original version as a Coastal Act exemption for student and faculty/staff housing. 8/17: Senate Approps. Signed into law 10/3.
AB 439 (Rogers)
Faster approval of minor changes to coastal plans. 8/17: Senate Floor. Signed into law 10/10.
AB 462 (Lowenthal)
Amended to have faster approvals and no appeals allowed for coastal permits for ADUs in counties subject to a state of emergency that damages housing on or after 2/1/2025 Originally a coastal permit exemption for ADUs in such situations. Amended to also allow an ADU to be rebuilt before the main house. 8/17: Senate Approps. Signed into law 10/10.
SB 484 (Laird)
Pilot program for low and moderate income housing streamlined approvals in 3 areas that don’t have a certified local coastal program. 8/17: Assembly Approps. Signed into law 10/6.
Accessory Dwelling Units (ADUs)
AB 559 (Berman)
Consumer protection bill about ADU contractors. 8/17: Senate Approps. Held at floor.
AB 956 (Quirk-Silva)
Allows 2 detached ADUs per single family lot. Did not pass Senate committee
AB 1154 (Carrillo)
Amended. Allows JADUs even if no owner occupier, as long as the JADU has own bathroom. Original version also removed all parking requirements for ADUs under 500 sq ft. 8/17: Senate Approps. Signed into law 10/10.
SB 9 (Arreguin)
Requires cities/counties to submit their ADU ordinance to state, and respond to any findings if HCD finds that it doesn’t comply with state law. Previously version banned all owner-occupant requirements for building ADUs. 8/17: Assembly Floor. Signed 10/10.
SB 543 (McNerney)
Allows slightly larger ADUs (calculates maximum based on interior living space rather than gross sq ft to exterior walls), reduces fees & other barriers. 8/17: Assembly Approps. Signed 10/10.
Permit Streamlining — Building Permits
AB 6 (Ward)
Explores using the Residential Code, which is simpler than the regular Building Code, for 3–10 unit buildings. 8/17: Senate Approps. Held in committee.
AB 253 (Ward)
Allows private plan check if building department cannot do it in 30 days. Urgency law. Amended to apply to 1–10 unit buildings only. 8/17: Senate Approps. Signed 10/10.
AB 301 (Schiavo)
Applies permitting timelines to state agencies involved in building permit reviews, and post online examples of approved applications. 8/17: Senate Floor. Signed 10/10.
AB 306 (Schultz)
Freezes state and local building codes, including green building codes, until 2031 except for home hardening, single stair reform, or other emergency standards. Included in Budget Bill — Signed by Governor
AB 557 (McKinnor)
Faster building permit approval for factory built housing. Passed Assembly, did not pass Senate committee
AB 660 (Wilson)
Shortens the deadline for building permit review. Original version also allowed 3rd-party permit review if local agency takes too long. 8/17: Senate Approps. Held in committee.
AB 1026 (Wilson)
Requires electric utilities to approve permits faster. 8/17: Senate Approps. Passed Senate. Vetoed.
AB 1308 (Hoover)
Speeds up building inspections. Original version also allowed hiring private inspectors. 8/17: Senate Approps. Signed into law 10/10.
SB 328 (Grayson)
Speeds up the permit process and reduces fees for remediating brownfields. 8/17: Assembly Approps. Held in committee.
Permit Streamlining — CEQA
CEQA is the California Environmental Quality Act, a state law that requires development projects to go through a process to identify and potentially mitigate environmental impacts.
AB 317 (Jackson)
CEQA exemption and tax deferral until sale for houses up to 1500 sq ft and 1 bedroom, sold for $400k or less to first time homebuyer. Passed Assembly, did not pass Senate committee
AB 609 (Wicks)
Faster approvals for infill housing — CEQA exemption if it meets existing zoning. Included in Budget Bill — Signed by Governor
SB 73 (Cervantes)
Expands sites eligible for CEQA exemption: adds sites in very low vehicle travel areas, expands max site size from 4 to 5 acres, allows infill farmworker and affordable housing inside a state conservancy. Did not pass Senate committee
SB 231 (Seyarto)
Creates technical advisory on how to determine if there’s an impact for greenhouse gas, vehicle miles traveled, and noise impacts for CEQA. Did not pass Senate committee
SB 232 (Seyarto)
Explores allowing projects to lock in the model used for CEQA analysis at start of project. Did not pass Senate committee
SB 607 (Wiener)
Speeds up environmental review and clarifies eligibility of infill housing. Included in Budget Bill — Signed by Governor
SB 611 (Richardson)
Extends previous legislation that prohibits courts from overturning development approvals even if the community plan it was submitted under is overturned. 8/17: Passed Senate and Assembly, back in Senate for concurrence of Assembly amendments. Signed into law 10/1.
Permit Streamlining — Zoning Approvals
AB 507 (Haney)
Incentives and faster approvals for converting nonresidential buildings — adaptive reuse. 8/17: Senate Approps. Signed into law 10/10.
AB 782 (Quirk-Silva)
Reduces costs and delays for subdivisions. 8/17: Senate Approps. Held at floor.
AB 920 (Caloza)
Centralized planning application portal for all permits in cities and counties over 150,000 people. 8/17: Senate Approps. Signed into law 10/10.
AB 1007 (Blanca Rubio)
Speeds up approvals by agencies that are responsible but not lead agency, shortens timeline from 90 to 45 days. 8/17: Senate Approps. Signed into law 10/10.
AB 1206 (Harabedian)
Requires cities to have a program for pre-approved plans for houses and apartments up to 10 units. 8/17: Senate Approps. Held in committee.
AB 1276 (Carrillo)
Locks in rules at time of permit application. 8/17: Senate Approps. Held in committee.
AB 1294 (Haney)
Standardized statewide application for housing. Passed Assembly, did not pass Senate committee
SB 489 (Arreguin)
Faster permit approvals and requires local government to publish online their list of requirements. 8/17: Assembly Approps. Signed into law 10/10.
SB 574 (Umberg)
Permit streamlining for developments of houses up to 1600 sq ft each. Held in committee
SB 677 (Wiener)
More projects eligible for permit streamlining, and more sites eligible for duplexes and lot splits, removes owner occupancy requirement for lot splits. Held in committee
SB 808 (Caballero)
Expedited court hearings for permit appeals. 8/17: Assembly Approps. Signed into law 10/10.
Production — Miscellaneous
AB 413 (Fong)
Translation for California Housing and Community Development info on how to use state housing laws to build housing, etc. 8/17: Senate Approps. Signed into law 10/10.
AB 647 (Mark Gonzalez)
Allows 8 units on any lot zoned for 8 or fewer units. 1 unit needs to be affordable to low income. Held in committee
AB 698 (Wicks)
Requires analysis of transfer tax impacts on housing production and includes it in the official voter guide. Passed Assembly, did not pass Senate committee
AB 945 (Fong)
Incentives and concessions, and no parking required, for housing that meets a green building standard and is all electric. Held in committee
AB 961 (Avila Farias)
Extends liability protections to encourage brownfield cleanup. 8/17: Senate Approps. Signed into law 10/1.
AB 1050 (Schultz)
Prohibits private restrictive covenants from preventing building housing on commercial sites. 8/17: Senate Approps. Signed into law 10/10.
AB 1061 (Quirk-Silva)
Allows SB9 lot splits in historic zones. Amended to allow cities to have objective standards on maintaining historic value. Original version allowed it as long as it does not demolish more than 25% of exterior walls of a historic resource. 8/17: Senate Approps. Signed into law 10/10.
AB 1359 (Ahrens)
Allows a city that has met their RHNA housing production goals to add additional requirements on any further housing developments. Held in committee
AB 1445 (Haney)
Allows establishing of downtown revitalization districts for funding office to housing conversions. 8/17: Senate Approps. Signed into law 10/11.
SB 79 (Wiener)
More housing allowed near transit. 8/17: Assembly Approps. Signed into law 10/10.
Production — New Regulation
AB 87 (Boerner)
Restricts use of Density Bonus for building visitor-serving uses such as short term rentals and hotels. 8/17: Senate Floor. Signed into law 10/10.
AB 1055 (Boerner)
Allows cities to require that streamline permits for ADUs require that it be used for residential use for at least half the year, for the first 10 years. Held in Committee
SB 92 (Blakespear)
Amended to restrict use of Density Bonus for units used as a hotel or short term rental and limits commercial FAR to 2.5 times the base zoning commercial FAR. Original version required that mixed use developments that use the Density Bonus be at least 2/3 housing.. 8/17: Assembly Floor. Signed into law 10/10.
SB 457 (Becker)
Limits use of Builders Remedy — Housing elements considered compliant once city adopts, not when state Dept of Housing & Community Development finishes review. Held in Committee
Affordable Housing
Cost Reduction
AB 874 (Avila Farias)
Waives some development fees for affordable housing. Held in Committee
AB 1265 (Haney)
Tax incentives for rehabbing historic buildings with affordable housing. Held in Committee
AB 1339 (Mark Gonzalez)
Studies how to reduce insurance costs for affordable housing. 8/17: Senate Approps. Signed into law 10/13.
SB 336 (Wiener)
Property tax exemption for moderate income housing. Held in Committee
Funding
AB 736 (Wicks) & SB 417 (Cabaldon)
$10 billion housing bond. 8/17: AB736 Passed Assembly 61–11. Two year bill.
AB 314 (Arambula)
Funding for infrastructure and housing near future high speed rail stations. Held in Committee
AB 474 (Ward)
Homeowners who rent out part of their home in a nonprofit home sharing program would not have the rent income would not count towards limits for benefits such as Medi-Cal. Previous version also had a income tax exemption, that was amended out. 8/17: Senate Approps. Passed Senate. Vetoed.
AB 480 (Quirk-Silva)
CTCAC (Tax Credit funding) changes to make the program more flexible and attract more private dollars through a larger federal tax savings. 8/17: Senate Approps. Signed into law 10/10.
AB 913 (Celeste Rodriguez)
Allows transfers of extra money in reserves of one building to another. 8/17: Senate Approps. Held in committee.
AB 1165 (Gipson)
Earmarks funding for housing. Held in Committee
AB 1244 (Wicks)
Allows transportation mitigation fees to be paid into a Transit Oriented Development program that funds affordable housing. Passed Assembly, did not pass Senate committee
SB 549 (Allen)
More flexibility for NIFTI-2 enhanced infrastructure financing districts. Passed Senate, did not pass Assembly committee
SB 686 (Reyes)
More flexibility for affordable housing financing and operations. The original bill, which allows nonprofits to repay HCD loans early was passed in the budget bill. 8/17: Assembly Approps. Signed into law 10/10.
SB 769 (Caballero)
Creates a nonprofit corporation for financing infrastructure and other construction. 8/17: Assembly Approps. Held at Floor.
SB 772 (Cabaldon)
Adds to priority areas for funding for affordable housing and infrastructure: adds walkable areas and adds in areas where transit is planned. 8/17: Assembly Approps. Held in committee.
SB 802 (Ashby)
Prioritizes housing funding for foster youth, homeless persons, and lower income households experiencing domestic violence, sexual abuse, or human trafficking. Passed Senate, did not pass Assembly committee
Miscellaneous Affordable Housing Bills
AB 1404 (Ortega)
Requires utilities to connect electricity within 60 days. Held in Committee
SB 21 (Durazo)
Allows conversion of SRO buildings to affordable dwelling units (which have in-unit kitchen and baths) with no more than a 25% net loss, measured as difference in number of SRO rooms vs affordable dwelling units. 8/17: Assembly Approps. Signed into law 10/10.
Tenant Applications / Fair Housing
AB 282 (Pellerin)
Clarifies that it is OK to prioritize tenants who receive rental assistance even though CA has source-of-income discrimination ban. 8/17: Senate Approps. Held at floor.
SB 52 (Perez)
Bans use of rental pricing algorithms using nonpublic competitor data. 8/17: Assembly Approps. Held in committee.
SB 259 (Wahab)
Bans pricing based on customer’s location, software, or device hardware (not just for housing). 8/17: Assembly Floor. Held at floor.
SB 295 (Hurtado)
Bans pricing algorithms that use competitor data, also requires disclosures (not just for housing). 8/17: Assembly Floor. Held at floor.
AB 325 (Aguiar-Curry)
Bans pricing algorithms that use competitor data (not just for housing). Signed into law 10/3.
SB 384 (Wahab)
Bans price-fixing algorithms (not just for housing). 8/17: Assembly Floor. Held.
Tenant Protections
Evictions
AB 246 (Bryan)
Protects tenants from eviction in the event that they cannot pay rent due to a delay in Social Security payments. 8/17: Senate Approps. Signed into law 10/6.
AB 863 (Kalra)
Requires in-language eviction notices if lease was negotiated in that language, or if landlord has reason to believe that tenant has a primary language that is one of the more commonly used non-English languages. 8/17: Senate Approps. Signed into law 10/6.
SB 436 (Wahab)
Right to redeem — extends time a tenant can pay back rent. Deadline shifts from after unlawful detainer is filed in court, to until the date of physical removal. Passed Senate, did not pass Assembly committee
Fees & Deposits
AB 414 (Pellerin)
Requires security deposits paid electronically to be returned electronically. 8/17: Senate Floor. Signed into law 10/6.
AB 1248 (Haney)
Limits fees to those at start of tenancy for tenancies for existing tenancies, and bans junk fees for new tenancies. Held on Assembly Floor
AB 1414 (Ransom)
Amended to allow tenants to opt out of a 3rd-party internet subscription. Original text banned landlords from requiring tenants to use a specific internet service provider. 8/17: Senate Floor. Signed into law 10/10.
SB 381 (Wahab)
Bans pet fees and other fees, limits late fees, rebundles parking and bans parking fees, limits screening fees to actual cost of screening. Held in committee
Habitability
AB 628 (McKinnor)
Requires landlords to provide a stove and fridge in good working condition for new tenancies. Takes effect 1/1/2026. 8/17: Senate Floor. Signed into law 10/6.
AB 1183 (Lowenthal)
Allows a landlord to have a habitability inspection before offering housing for rent. If done so, for __ years, of there is a problem, they are allowed __ days to fix it. (as of 4/12/2025, the bill has not defined the exact deadlines) Held in committee
Miscellaneous
AB 838 (Ta)
Expands Renters Tax Credit. Original bill held in committee. A smaller increase to the renters tax credit was included in the budget bill.
AB 878 (Kalra)
Require landlords to provide a reasonable accommodation, such as transfer to another apartment, security equipment, or flexibility on moving or rent payments for victims of abuse or violence. 8/17: Senate Approps. Held in committee.
AB 924 (Davies)
Landlords must return portion of security deposit to a tenant that breaks lease due to abuse or violence from another tenant on the lease. Remaining tenants responsible to pay that part of the deposit to landlord. Held in committee
AB 1157 (Kalra)
Lowers rent cap to inflation+2%, with a 5% max, expands to houses/condos, removes 2030 sunset and makes the protections permanent. Held in committee
SB 566 (Grove)
Increases homeowner exemption and renters tax credit. Held in committee
Mobile Homes / Manufactured Housing
AB 391 (Michelle Rodriguez)
Allows some notices to be sent electronically if agreed on by homeowner. 8/17: Senate Floor. Signed into law 10/6.
AB 456 (Connolly)
Prevents park managers from interfering with mobilehome owners selling their home, such as requiring improving interior before selling, etc. Signed into law by Governor on July 28, 2025
AB 635 (Ahrens)
Authorizes CA Attorney General to handle 25 most serious mobile home disputes each year. Passed Assembly, did not pass Senate committee
AB 760 (Ta)
Allows park management to rent or sublease homes it owns even if rules don’t otherwise allow, if theres a state of emergency. Passed Assembly, did not pass Senate committee
AB 768 (Avila Farias)
Removes rent control on space rent if the home isn’t the homeowner’s principal or only home. However, adds space rent control if the mobile home owner is in the process of selling the home. Did not pass Assembly committee
AB 806 (Connolly)
Creates right to install a cooling system regardless of park rules. Amended. Earlier version required park owner to provide cooling for indoor common spaces. 8/17: Senate Approps. Signed into law 10/6.
AB 813 (Solache)
Allows park owners to evict if resident or homeowner is a substantial annoyance to park staff. Did not pass Assembly committee
SB 749 (Allen)
Requires park owner to offer for sale the park to residents, nonprofit, or public agency before closing the park. Also waives space rent after disaster if the mobilehome park is unlivable. 8/17: Assembly Approps. Held in committee.
Youth
AB 249 (Ramos)
Coordinated entry for homeless youth. Did not pass Assembly committee
AB 534 (Schiavo)
Requires 10 year initial contract for providers of housing for youth aging out of foster care. Counties can cancel contracts with 90 day notice. 8/17: Senate Approps. Held in committee.
AB 673 (Jackson)
Grants for housing for unaccompanied homeless youth. Did not pass Assembly committee
AB 1314 (Ahrens)
Amended. Bans contract requirements for transitional housing for foster youth that create unreasonable barriers. Original version standardizes requirements and bans counties from having more stringent requirements. 8/17: Senate Approps. Signed 10/1.
SB 33 (Cortese)
Guaranteed income program for homeless 12th graders — $1,000 a month for May-August 2026. Did not pass Senate committee
SB 492 (Menjivar)
Youth housing bond. Amount TBD. Did not pass Senate committee
Student & Educator/Staff Housing
Funding
AB 1212 (Patel)
Authorizes UC to build and buy faculty/staff housing. CSU already can do this. Held in committee
AB 1381 (Muratsuchi)
Loan fund for staff housing. 8/17: Senate Approps. Held in committee.
AB 1470 (Haney)
Allows student housing loan funds to be used to build affordable student or staff housing in any commercial or cultural hub. Amended, No longer about housing
ACA 3 (Haney)
Extends homeownership assistance offered to UC faculty and admin to the rest of staff. Did not pass Assembly committee
SB 502 (Arreguin)
Designates some housing funds for educator and staff housing. Held in committee
SB 685 (Cortese)
Pilot program to give homeless students additional financial aid to cover housing costs. 8/17: Assembly Approps. Held in commitee.
Zoning
AB 90 (Jackson)
Overnight parking for community college students living in vehicles. Amended to require boards to opt in.Original version also included Cal State. 8/17: Senate Approps. Held in committee.
AB 648 (Zbur)
Allows community college student and staff housing to ignore local zoning. 8/17: Senate Floor. Signed into law 10/6.
AB 893 (Fong)
Faster permits and higher density for housing in all zones that allow office, retail, or parking as a principal use within 1 mile of a UC, CSU, or Community College (expands AB2011). 8/17: Senate Approps. Signed into law 10/10.
AB 1021 (Wicks)
Allows housing on any land owned by a local educational agency such as a school board, and raises the height and density limit allowed. 8/17: Senate Approps Signed into law 10/10.
SB 486 (Cabaldon)
Requires general plans and regional planning to consider changes in UC and CSU enrollment. 8/17: Assembly Approps. Signed into law 10/10.
Social Housing
AB 11 (Lee)
Establishes social housing agency. Held in committee
AB 590 (Lee)
$950 million social housing bond. Passed Assembly, did not pass Senate committee
Residential Care Facilities
AB 508 (Aguiar-Curry)
More disclosure of staffing ratios at residential care facilities. Held in committee
SB 433 (Wahab)
Caps rates for assisted living for people on Medi-Cal. 8/17: Assembly Approps. Held in committee.
SB 434 (Wahab)
Extends notice required to evict someone in a residential care facility from 30 days to 60–90 days, creates penalties for RCFE’s that dump residents without due process. Held in committee
SB 435 (Wahab)
Requires 72-hour backup power for residential care facilities licensed for 16 or more residents. Amended, no longer about housing.
Veterans
ACA 5 (Schiavo) SCA 4 (Archuleta) SB 623 (Archuleta)
Property tax relief — allows a dwelling that receives the veterans’ exemption or the disabled veteran’s exemption to also receive the homeowners’ exemption. Did not pass committee
SB 23 (Valladares)
Expands property tax exemptions for disabled veterans and their families. Did not pass Senate committee
SB 56 (Seyarto)
Excludes service-connected disability payments from income for calculating low-income disabled veteran property tax exemption. Passed Senate, did not pass Assembly committee
SB 296 (Archuleta)
Property tax exemption for disabled veterans with major disability. Amended, original version required 100% disability. Passed Senate, did not pass Assembly committee
Re-Entry Housing
AB 722 (Avila Farias)
Grants to fund re entry housing programs. Held in committee
Farmworker Housing
AB 457 (Soria)
Permit streamlining in Fresno, Madera, Merced for farmworker housing. Existing program exists for Santa Cruz and Santa Clara counties.. 8/17: Senate Approps. Signed into law 10/10.
SB 565 (Cervantes)
Requires that the H-2A seasonal immigrant farmworker housing annual inspection before occupancy be done in person, not on video call. Did not pass Senate committee
