All Roll Calls
Yes: 234 • No: 0
CaliforniaAB 362025-2026 Regular SessionHouseWALLET
Housing elements: prohousing designation.
Sponsored By: Esmeralda Soria (Democratic)
Signed by Governor
Your PRIA Score
Score Hidden
Personalized for You
How does this bill affect your finances?
Sign up for a PRIA Policy Scan to see your personalized alignment score for this bill and every other piece of legislation we track. We analyze your financial profile against policy provisions to show you exactly what matters to your wallet.
Bill Overview
Analyzed Economic Effects
5 provisions identified: 3 benefits, 0 costs, 2 mixed.
Extra grant points for prohousing cities
For award cycles that start after July 1, 2021, prohousing cities and counties get extra points on key state grants. They must have a housing element in substantial compliance and hold a prohousing designation. Programs include Affordable Housing and Sustainable Communities, Transformative Climate Communities, and the Infill Incentive and Infill Infrastructure Grant programs. This boosts the chances that prohousing places win funds for homes and infrastructure.
Broader prohousing policies, with point limits
The law widens what counts as a prohousing policy. Examples include less parking, faster permits, higher-density zoning, easier ADUs, lower impact fees, and converting commercial sites to homes. It also recognizes safe parking and camping, and faster approvals for navigation centers, shelters, and supportive housing. But points for those shelter‑focused policies cannot be higher than the minimum points for policies that directly help plan, approve, or build homes.
Easier path for small rural towns
Starting with the seventh housing element cycle, HCD reviews a small rural town’s housing element materials on request to find prohousing policies. The town must already have a compliant housing element. Small rural jurisdictions do not have to renew their prohousing status for at least four years. HCD can still revoke a designation for cause.
State sets and shares designation rules
HCD adopts emergency rules by July 1, 2021 to run the prohousing designation, and they stay in place until permanent rules take effect. By January 1, 2021 and every year, HCD posts the list of programs that give extra points to prohousing places. HCD names which jurisdictions are prohousing and reports that list each year and when asked to the Office of Land Use and Climate Innovation and other agencies.
Timing rule tied to SB 262
A backup version of the law takes effect only if three things happen. Both this law and SB 262 must be enacted and effective by January 1, 2026. Each must amend Government Code section 65589.9, and this law must be enacted after SB 262. If all conditions happen, Section 1.5 applies and Section 1 does not.
Sponsors & Cosponsors
Sponsor
Esmeralda Soria
Democratic • House
Cosponsors
There are no cosponsors for this bill.
Roll Call Votes
House vote • 9/10/2025
Item 230 — Assembly AFLOOR
Yes: 79 • No: 0
Senate vote • 9/9/2025
Item 248 — Senate SFLOOR
Yes: 40 • No: 0
legislature vote • 7/15/2025
Vote in CS75
Yes: 10 • No: 0
House vote • 5/8/2025
Item 137 — Assembly AFLOOR
Yes: 69 • No: 0
legislature vote • 4/30/2025
Vote in CX25
Yes: 14 • No: 0
legislature vote • 4/23/2025
Vote in CX15
Yes: 10 • No: 0
legislature vote • 4/9/2025
Vote in CX10
Yes: 12 • No: 0
Actions Timeline
Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 485, Statutes of 2025.
10/10/2025SenateApproved by the Governor.
10/10/2025legislatureEnrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m.
9/22/2025legislatureSenate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 79. Noes 0. Page 3210.).
9/10/2025HouseIn Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending.
9/9/2025HouseRead third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 40. Noes 0. Page 2667.).
9/9/2025SenateRead second time. Ordered to third reading.
9/8/2025SenateRead third time and amended. Ordered to second reading.
9/4/2025SenateFrom Consent Calendar.
8/29/2025SenateOrdered to third reading.
8/29/2025SenateRead second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar.
8/26/2025SenateFrom committee: Be ordered to second reading file pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8 and ordered to Consent Calendar.
8/25/2025Senate(Ayes 27. Noes 0. Page 2173.)
8/18/2025SenateFrom committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on APPR.
8/18/2025SenateIn committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
8/13/2025SenateFrom 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.
7/16/2025SenateReferred to Com. on HOUSING.
5/21/2025SenateIn Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment.
5/8/2025SenateRead third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 69. Noes 0. Page 1485.)
5/8/2025HouseRead second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar.
5/1/2025HouseFrom committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 14. Noes 0.) (April 30).
4/30/2025HouseFrom committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 10. Noes 0.) (April 23). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
4/23/2025HouseFrom committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on L. GOV. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 12. Noes 0.) (April 9). Re-referred to Com. on L. GOV.
4/9/2025HouseRe-referred to Com. on H. & C.D.
3/20/2025HouseFrom committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on H. & C.D. Read second time and amended.
3/19/2025House
Bill Text
Chaptered
10/10/2025
Enrolled
9/12/2025
Amended Senate
9/4/2025
Amended Senate
8/18/2025
Amended Assembly
3/19/2025
Introduced
12/2/2024