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Measure AB 920
Authors Caloza  
Coauthors: Wicks  
Subject Permit Streamlining Act: housing development projects: centralized application portal.
Relating To relating to housing.
Title An act to add Section 65940.3 to the Government Code, relating to housing.
Last Action Dt 2025-10-10
State Chaptered
Status Chaptered
Active? Y
Vote Required Majority
Appropriation No
Fiscal Committee Yes
Local Program Yes
Substantive Changes None
Urgency No
Tax Levy No
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Actions
2025-10-10     Approved by the Governor.
2025-10-10     Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 501, Statutes of 2025.
2025-09-04     Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.
2025-08-28     Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 76. Noes 0. Page 2762.).
2025-08-26     In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending.
2025-08-25     Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 37. Noes 0. Page 2251.).
2025-08-20     Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar.
2025-08-19     From committee: Be ordered to second reading file pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8 and ordered to Consent Calendar.
2025-07-16     From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 10. Noes 0.) (July 15). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
2025-07-07     From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on HOUSING.
2025-07-02     From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on HOUSING with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (July 2). Re-referred to Com. on HOUSING.
2025-05-28     Referred to Coms. on L. GOV. and HOUSING.
2025-05-20     In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment.
2025-05-19     Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 75. Noes 0. Page 1605.)
2025-05-15     Read second time. Ordered to third reading.
2025-05-14     From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 15. Noes 0.) (May 14).
2025-04-30     From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 10. Noes 0.) (April 30). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
2025-04-30     Coauthors revised.
2025-04-28     Re-referred to Com. on H. & C.D.
2025-04-24     Read second time and amended.
2025-04-23     From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on H. & C.D. (Ayes 10. Noes 0.) (April 23).
2025-04-21     Assembly Rule 56 suspended. (Page 1163.)
2025-04-21     (Pending re-refer to Com. on H. & C. D.)
2025-03-25     Re-referred to Com. on L. GOV.
2025-03-24     Referred to Coms. on L. GOV. and H. & C.D.
2025-03-24     From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on L. GOV. Read second time and amended.
2025-02-20     From printer. May be heard in committee March 22.
2025-02-19     Read first time. To print.
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Chaptered     2025-10-10
Enrolled     2025-09-02
Amended Senate     2025-07-07
Amended Assembly     2025-04-24
Amended Assembly     2025-03-24
Introduced     2025-02-19
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			<html:p>This bill would require a city or county with a population of 150,000 or more persons to make a centralized application portal available on its internet website to applicants for housing development projects, as prescribed. The bill would, notwithstanding that provision, authorize a city or county
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			<html:p> The bill would require the centralized application portal to allow for tracking of the status of an application. The bill would specify that a city or county is not required to provide the status of any permit or inspection required by another local agency, a state agency, or a utility provider. The bill would define various terms for purposes of its provisions.</html:p>
			<html:p>The bill would include findings that changes proposed by this bill address a matter of statewide concern rather than a municipal affair and, therefore, apply to all cities, including charter cities.</html:p>
			<html:p>The California Constitution requires the state to reimburse local agencies and school districts for certain costs mandated by the state. Statutory provisions establish procedures for making that reimbursement.</html:p>
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								For purposes of paragraph (1), the population of a county shall be determined based on the population of persons in the unincorporated areas of the county.
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								Notwithstanding subdivision (a), a city or county subject to this section may make a centralized application portal available on its internet website no later than January 1, 2030, if the legislative body of the city or county, on or before January 1, 2028, does both of the following:
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								For purposes of this section, both of the following definitions apply:
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								“Centralized application portal” means a website or software that a city or county uses to collect information and materials provided by an applicant that are necessary for the city or county to consider a housing development project.
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								“Housing development project” has the same meaning as that term is defined in paragraph (3) of subdivision (b) of Section 65905.5.
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Last Version Text Digest The Permit Streamlining Act requires a public agency that is the lead agency for a development project to approve or disapprove that project within specified time periods. Existing law requires a city or county that has an internet website to, among other things, make a fee estimate tool that the public can use to calculate an estimate of fees and exactions for a proposed housing development project available on its internet website. This bill would require a city or county with a population of 150,000 or more persons to make a centralized application portal available on its internet website to applicants for housing development projects, as prescribed. The bill would, notwithstanding that provision, authorize a city or county described above to make a centralized application portal available on its internet website no later than January 1, 2030, if the legislative body of the city or county, on or before January 1, 2028, takes certain action, including initiating a procurement process to make a centralized application portal available on its internet website. The bill would require the centralized application portal to allow for tracking of the status of an application. The bill would specify that a city or county is not required to provide the status of any permit or inspection required by another local agency, a state agency, or a utility provider. The bill would define various terms for purposes of its provisions. The bill would include findings that changes proposed by this bill address a matter of statewide concern rather than a municipal affair and, therefore, apply to all cities, including charter cities.