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 01/08/25 - Introduced

 AB-158 Land use.(2025-2026)

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 Date Published: 09/09/2025 10:58 PM

AB158:v98#DOCUMENTBill Start

 Amended
 IN 
 Senate
 September 09, 2025

 CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE—
 2025–2026 REGULAR SESSION

 Assembly Bill

No. 158

Introduced by Assembly Member Gabriel Committee on Budget (Assembly Member Gabriel (Chair), Addis, Ahrens, Alvarez, Bennett, Bonta, Connolly, Fong, Haney, Hart, Jackson, Lee, Muratsuchi, Ortega, Patel, Petrie-Norris, Quirk-Silva, Ramos, Rogers, Schiavo, Schultz, Sharp-Collins, Solache, Ward, and Wilson)

January 08, 2025

An act relating to the Budget Act of 2025. An act to amend Sections 65400, 65928, and 65950 of the Government Code, to amend Section 50245 of the Health and Safety Code, and to amend Sections 21067.5, 21080.1, and 21080.66 of, to amend and renumber Section 21080.44 of, and to add Section 21080.73 to, the Public Resources Code, relating to land use, and making an appropriation therefor, to take effect immediately, bill related to the budget.

LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST

AB 158, as amended, Committee on Budget.
 Budget Act of 2025. Land use.

(1) Existing law, the Governor’s Reorganization Plan No. 1 of 2025 (GRP), which became effective on July 5, 2025, reorganized specified state agencies and departments, including establishing the Housing Development and Finance Executive Committee (executive committee) within the Business, Consumer Services, and Housing Agency for the purpose of centralizing affordable housing finance policymaking across state government. The GRP requires the executive committee to, among other things, work to align state housing funding sources for the creation of a consolidated application for multifamily affordable housing developers and a coordinated review process for the application of funds. The GRP, beginning July 1, 2026, establishes the Housing Development and Finance Committee within the
 California Housing and Homelessness Agency, which the GRP also establishes, and transfers the executive committee to the Housing Development Finance Committee effective July 1, 2026.

This bill would state the intent of the Legislature that, in addition to the other duties required of the executive committee created by the GRP to align state housing funding sources, as described above, the executive committee be required to make recommendations to the Legislature regarding improvements the Department of Housing and Community Development may make to optimize loan administration, as specified.

(2) Existing law, the Planning and Zoning Law, requires each county and each city to adopt a comprehensive, long-term general plan for the physical development of the county or city, and specified land outside its boundaries, that includes, among other specified mandatory elements, a housing element. That law
 requires the planning agency of a city or county to provide by April 1 of each year an annual report to, among other entities, the Governor’s Office of Land Use and Climate Innovation, formerly known as the Office of Planning and Research, and the Department of Housing and Community Development.

This bill would require an annual report required by its provisions to be prepared using standards, forms, and definitions adopted by the Governor’s Office of Land Use and Climate Innovation, except as specified. The bill would also make a nonsubstantive change to update a reference to the Governor’s Office of Land Use and Climate Innovation in these provisions.

(3) The Permit Streamlining Act establishes requirements for the review and approval of applications for development projects by public agencies. Existing law defines “development project” for purposes of those provisions to include a housing
 development project that requires an entitlement from a local agency.

This bill would define “housing development project” for purposes of those provisions. 

(4) The California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) requires a lead agency, as defined, to prepare, or cause to be prepared, and certify the completion of an environmental impact report on a project that it proposes to carry out or approve that may have a significant effect on the environment or to adopt a negative declaration if it finds that the project will not have that effect. CEQA also requires a lead agency to prepa