AB 1407 California Assembly · 2025-2026 Regular Session

Planning and Zoning Law: housing elements: rezoning.

Summary

Existing law requires a city or county to prepare and adopt a general plan for its jurisdiction that contains certain mandatory elements, including a housing element. Existing law requires the housing element to identify adequate sites for housing. Existing law requires the housing element to contain an assessment of housing needs and an inventory of resources and constraints relevant to the meeting of these needs. Existing law requires rezoning, as specified, when an inventory of sites does not identify adequate sites to accommodate the need for groups of specified household income levels. If the local government fails to adopt a housing element that the Department of Housing and Community Development has found to be in substantial compliance with specified law within 120 days of the statutory deadline for adoption of the housing element, existing law requires the local government to complete this rezoning no later than one year from the statutory deadline for adoption of the housing element. This bill would extend the above-described one-year deadline to one year and 6 months.

Issues: ✓ Housing

Bill status failed 1 of 4 stages cleared

Introduction

Feb 2025

Committee Review

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Governor

Introduced Feb 21, 2025 Last action Feb 2, 2026

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What changed between versions

03/28/25 - Amended Assembly → AB1407 · 3 edits

MINOR

AB 1407 was amended to extend the rezoning deadline for local governments that fail to adopt a substantially compliant housing element within 120 days of the statutory deadline, from one year to one year and six months. The bill also corrected the section number being amended from 65584 to 65583 of the Government Code and updated its title to reference 'rezoning' specifically.

Scope change

The substantive scope narrowed slightly: the bill now explicitly targets only the rezoning deadline provision rather than the broader housing element requirements, as reflected in the updated title. The corrected section number (65583 instead of 65584) ensures the amendment applies to the correct statutory provision.

TIMELINE

The deadline for completing required rezoning was extended from one year to one year and six months for local governments that fail to adopt a housing element found to be in substantial compliance within 120 days of the statutory adoption deadline.

TECHNICAL

The section number being amended was corrected from Section 65584 to Section 65583 of the Government Code, which is the correct provision governing housing element content and rezoning requirements.

SCOPE

The bill title and legislative counsel's digest were updated from 'Planning and Zoning Law: housing elements' to 'Planning and Zoning Law: housing elements: rezoning,' narrowing the stated focus of the bill to the rezoning deadline extension.

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Committee

Amendments

Feb 2, 2026

Lower · Passed

From committee: Filed with the Chief Clerk pursuant to Joint Rule 56.

lower

Apr 1, 2025

Committee

Re-referred to Com. on H. & C.D.

lower

Mar 28, 2025

Introduced

From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on H. & C.D. Read second time and amended.

lower

Mar 28, 2025

Committee

Referred to Coms. on H. & C.D. and L. GOV.

lower

Feb 22, 2025

Lower · Passed

From printer. May be heard in committee March 24.

lower

Feb 21, 2025

Introduced

Introduced. To print.

lower

1 primary · 0 co-sponsors