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 02/23/26 - Amended Assembly
 02/11/26 - Introduced

 AB-1857 Unlawfully restrictive covenants: grocery stores and supermarkets.(2025-2026)

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 Date Published: 06/15/2026 10:00 AM

AB1857:v95#DOCUMENTBill Start

 Amended
 IN 
 Senate
 June 15, 2026

 Amended
 IN 
 Assembly
 April 16, 2026

 Amended
 IN 
 Assembly
 April 09, 2026

 Amended
 IN 
 Assembly
 February 23, 2026

 CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE—
 2025–2026 REGULAR SESSION

 Assembly Bill

No. 1857

Introduced by Assembly Member Aguiar-Curry
(Principal coauthor: Assembly Member Wicks)
(Coauthors: Assembly Members Kalra Bonta, Kalra, and Schiavo)

February 11, 2026

 An act to add Section 714.8 to the Civil Code, relating to land use. 

LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST

AB 1857, as amended, Aguiar-Curry.
 Unlawfully restrictive covenants: grocery stores and supermarkets.

Existing law makes void and unenforceable any covenant, restriction, or condition contained in any deed, contract, security instrument, or other instrument affecting the transfer or sale of any interest in real property that effectively prohibits or restricts certain land uses, including the installation or use of a solar energy system or construction or use of an accessory dwelling unit or junior accessory dwelling unit on certain lots. Existing law authorizes a person who holds or is acquiring an ownership interest of record in property that the person believes is the subject of an unlawfully restrictive covenant, as specified, to record a restrictive covenant modification document. Before recording the document, existing law requires the county recorder to submit the modification document and the original document to the county counsel, who is required to determine whether the
 original document contains an unlawful restriction.

This bill would make void and unenforceable against an interested party any covenant, restriction, or condition contained in any deed, contract, security instrument, lease, or other recorded or unrecorded instrument affecting the transfer or sale of any interest in real property that effectively prohibits or restricts the use of that property as a grocery store or supermarket, as defined, if a grocery store or supermarket either previously operated on the property and has ceased operations or is no longer in actual operation within a commercial project or shopping center and an approved restrictive covenant modification document has been recorded in the public record. The bill would entitle an
 interested party, as defined, to establish that an existing restrictive covenant is unenforceable by submitting a restrictive covenant modification document to the county recorder, in accordance with certain procedures, to allow the grocery store or supermarket development to proceed. By imposing additional duties on county officials, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program. The bill would include findings and declarations relating to these provisions.

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.

This bill would provide that no reimbursement is required by this act for a specified reason.

Digest Key

 Vote:
 MAJORITY 
 Appropriation:
 NO 
 Fiscal Committee:
 YES 
 Local Program:
 YES 

Bill Text

The people of the State of California do enact as follows:

SECTION 1.

 The Legislature finds and declares all of the following:

(a) Food insecurity and affordability are converging crises in California. More than one in five Californians is experiencing hunger, while food prices have increased by nearly 30 percent since 2020.

(b) Food insecurity is exacerbated by longstanding racial and economic inequities, with Black and Latino households being over twice as likely to be food insecure compared to White counterparts, 92 percent of Native American households in the Klamath Basin of northern California suffering from food insecurity, and Asian American,
 Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander communities in southern California suffering from great rates of food insecurity.

(c) Food insecurity has severe and lasting con