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CA AB 1296

enacted

Local educational agencies: reserve funds.

California · 2025-2026 Regular Session · lower

Quick answers

Did CA AB 1296 pass?

Yes. CA AB 1296 has been enacted into law as of 2025-10-10. Latest recorded action (2025-10-10): Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 508, Statutes of 2025.

What is CA AB 1296 about?

Existing law requires the Department of Housing and Community Development to develop and publish specified reports, including, among others, a study of farmworker housing conditions, needs, and solutions. Existing law authorizes the department to provide technical assistance for specified purposes, including in developing housing for students and faculty of universities and colleges, as provided. This bill would require the department, on or before January 1, 2027, to make available on its internet website a form that enables a local educational agency to notify the department of the agency's interest in using real property that it owns for a housing project. The bill would require the department to review the information submitted via the form and make the information available on its internet website. The bill would also require the department to provide technical assistance, as specified, to a local educational agency that submits the notice described above and requests technical assistance, for the purpose of supporting predevelopment activities related to a housing project located on real property owned by the local educational agency.

Who sponsors CA AB 1296?

Bonta is the primary sponsor of CA AB 1296, joined by 2 cosponsors.

Description

Existing law requires the Department of Housing and Community Development to develop and publish specified reports, including, among others, a study of farmworker housing conditions, needs, and solutions. Existing law authorizes the department to provide technical assistance for specified purposes, including in developing housing for students and faculty of universities and colleges, as provided. This bill would require the department, on or before January 1, 2027, to make available on its internet website a form that enables a local educational agency to notify the department of the agency's interest in using real property that it owns for a housing project. The bill would require the department to review the information submitted via the form and make the information available on its internet website. The bill would also require the department to provide technical assistance, as specified, to a local educational agency that submits the notice described above and requests technical assistance, for the purpose of supporting predevelopment activities related to a housing project located on real property owned by the local educational agency.

Introduced
2025-02-21
Latest action
2025-10-10 — Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 508, Statutes of 2025.
Bill type
bill
Last updated
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Subjects

Sponsors

  • Bontaauthor
  • Haneycoauthor
  • Leecoauthor

Committees

Not provided by source.

Action timeline

  1. 2025-02-21

    Introduced. To print.

    introduction

  2. 2025-02-22

    From printer. May be heard in committee March 24.

  3. 2025-02-24

    Read first time.

    reading-1

  4. 2025-03-28

    Referred to Coms. on H. & C.D. and ED.

    referral-committee

  5. 2025-03-28

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

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  6. 2025-04-01

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

    referral-committee

  7. 2025-04-10

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

    amendment-introduction,amendment-passage,committee-passage,reading-1,reading-2,referral-committee

  8. 2025-04-21

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

    referral-committee

  9. 2025-04-21

    (Pending re-refer to Com. on ED.)

    referral-committee

  10. 2025-04-21

    Assembly Rule 56 suspended. (Page 1163.)

  11. 2025-04-28

    Coauthors revised.

  12. 2025-04-28

    From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on ED. (Ayes 10. Noes 0.) (April 24). Re-referred to Com. on ED.

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  13. 2025-05-01

    From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.) (April 30). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.

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  14. 2025-05-14

    In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.

  15. 2025-05-21

    Joint Rule 62(a), file notice suspended. (Page 1627.)

  16. 2025-05-21

    In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to APPR. suspense file.

    referral-committee

  17. 2025-05-23

    Assembly Rule 63 suspended. (Ayes 51. Noes 16. Page 1644.)

  18. 2025-05-23

    From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 11. Noes 2.) (May 23).

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  19. 2025-05-23

    Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading.

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  20. 2025-05-27

    Read second time. Ordered to third reading.

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  21. 2025-06-02

    Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 67. Noes 5. Page 1920.)

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  22. 2025-06-03

    In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment.

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  23. 2025-06-11

    Referred to Com. on HOUSING.

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  24. 2025-06-18

    From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 7. Noes 2.) (June 17). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.

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  25. 2025-06-30

    In committee: Referred to APPR. suspense file.

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  26. 2025-08-29

    Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading.

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  27. 2025-08-29

    From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 5. Noes 2.) (August 29).

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  28. 2025-09-02

    Read second time. Ordered to third reading.

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  29. 2025-09-08

    Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 30. Noes 8. Page 2618.).

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  30. 2025-09-08

    In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending.

  31. 2025-09-09

    Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 66. Noes 8. Page 3119.).

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  32. 2025-09-16

    Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 2 p.m.

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  33. 2025-10-10

    Approved by the Governor.

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  34. 2025-10-10

    Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 508, Statutes of 2025.

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Versions

  • 02/21/25 - Introduced — 2025-02-21Compare
  • 03/28/25 - Amended Assembly — 2025-03-28Compare
  • 04/10/25 - Amended Assembly — 2025-04-10Compare
  • 05/23/25 - Amended Assembly — 2025-05-23Compare
  • 08/29/25 - Amended Senate — 2025-08-29Compare
  • 09/11/25 - Enrolled — 2025-09-11Compare
  • 10/10/25 - Chaptered — 2025-10-10Compare
  • AB1296Compare
  • (document, no version)Compare

Documents

Votes

  • Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Education]

    2025-04-24 · pass · 10-0

    Member-level votes (12)
    • Lee: yes
    • Quirk-Silva: yes
    • Wicks: yes
    • Garcia: yes
    • Ávila Farías: yes
    • Caloza: yes
    • Haney: yes
    • Patterson: yes
    • Wilson: yes
    • Kalra: yes
    • Tangipa: other
    • Ta: other

  • Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations]

    2025-04-30 · pass · 9-0

    Member-level votes (9)
    • Castillo: yes
    • Garcia: yes
    • Patel: yes
    • Alvarez: yes
    • Bonta: yes
    • Addis: yes
    • Lowenthal: yes
    • Hoover: yes
    • Muratsuchi: yes

  • Do pass as amended.

    2025-05-23 · pass · 11-2

    Member-level votes (15)
    • Calderon: yes
    • Elhawary: yes
    • Hart: yes
    • Mark González: yes
    • Arambula: yes
    • Pacheco: yes
    • Solache: yes
    • Caloza: yes
    • Wicks: yes
    • Pellerin: yes
    • Fong: yes
    • Dixon: no
    • Tangipa: no
    • Ta: other
    • Sanchez: other

  • AB 1296 Bonta Assembly Third Reading

    2025-06-03 · pass · 67-5

    Member-level votes (79)
    • Addis: yes
    • Garcia: yes
    • Lee: yes
    • Rivas: yes
    • Petrie-Norris: yes
    • Bryan: yes
    • Michelle Rodriguez: yes
    • Rogers: yes
    • Wicks: yes
    • Irwin: yes
    • Arambula: yes
    • Caloza: yes
    • Ahrens: yes
    • Krell: yes
    • Stefani: yes
    • Harabedian: yes
    • Mark González: yes
    • Calderon: yes
    • Nguyen: yes
    • Patterson: yes
    • Ward: yes
    • Carrillo: yes
    • Blanca Rubio: yes
    • Muratsuchi: yes
    • Patel: yes
    • Solache: yes
    • McKinnor: yes
    • Bonta: yes
    • Lowenthal: yes
    • Papan: yes
    • Jeff Gonzalez: yes
    • Schiavo: yes
    • Gabriel: yes
    • Pacheco: yes
    • Ávila Farías: yes
    • Aguiar-Curry: yes
    • Ransom: yes
    • Connolly: yes
    • Celeste Rodriguez: yes
    • Fong: yes
    • Quirk-Silva: yes
    • Ramos: yes
    • Soria: yes
    • Wallis: yes
    • Pellerin: yes
    • Elhawary: yes
    • Davies: yes
    • Kalra: yes
    • Alanis: yes
    • Haney: yes
    • Gipson: yes
    • Hart: yes
    • Boerner: yes
    • Alvarez: yes
    • Bauer-Kahan: yes
    • Schultz: yes
    • Sharp-Collins: yes
    • Berman: yes
    • Jackson: yes
    • Wilson: yes
    • Hoover: yes
    • Lackey: yes
    • Zbur: yes
    • Bennett: yes
    • Ortega: yes
    • Bains: yes
    • Valencia: yes
    • Gallagher: no
    • Tangipa: no
    • Macedo: no
    • Dixon: no
    • DeMaio: no
    • Chen: other
    • Ta: other
    • Ellis: other
    • Flora: other
    • Hadwick: other
    • Castillo: other
    • Sanchez: other

  • Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations]

    2025-06-17 · pass · 7-2

    Member-level votes (11)
    • Grayson: yes
    • Caballero: yes
    • Wahab: yes
    • Cabaldon: yes
    • Durazo: yes
    • Cortese: yes
    • Arreguín: yes
    • Seyarto: no
    • Ochoa Bogh: no
    • Padilla: other
    • Gonzalez: other

  • Placed on suspense file

    2025-06-30 · pass · 6-0

    Member-level votes (7)
    • Cabaldon: yes
    • Caballero: yes
    • Seyarto: yes
    • Richardson: yes
    • Wahab: yes
    • Grayson: yes
    • Dahle: other

  • Do pass as amended

    2025-08-29 · pass · 5-2

    Member-level votes (7)
    • Richardson: yes
    • Grayson: yes
    • Wahab: yes
    • Caballero: yes
    • Cabaldon: yes
    • Dahle: no
    • Seyarto: no

  • 3rd Reading AB1296 Bonta et al. By Cabaldon

    2025-09-08 · pass · 30-8

    Member-level votes (40)
    • Wahab: yes
    • Laird: yes
    • Rubio: yes
    • McGuire: yes
    • Cortese: yes
    • Richardson: yes
    • Reyes: yes
    • Dahle: yes
    • Grayson: yes
    • Limón: yes
    • McNerney: yes
    • Wiener: yes
    • Padilla: yes
    • Umberg: yes
    • Hurtado: yes
    • Blakespear: yes
    • Menjivar: yes
    • Cabaldon: yes
    • Cervantes: yes
    • Weber Pierson: yes
    • Ashby: yes
    • Durazo: yes
    • Smallwood-Cuevas: yes
    • Allen: yes
    • Arreguín: yes
    • Pérez: yes
    • Archuleta: yes
    • Caballero: yes
    • Gonzalez: yes
    • Becker: yes
    • Niello: no
    • Jones: no
    • Alvarado-Gil: no
    • Choi: no
    • Seyarto: no
    • Strickland: no
    • Ochoa Bogh: no
    • Grove: no
    • Stern: other
    • Valladares: other

  • AB 1296 Bonta Concurrence in Senate Amendments

    2025-09-09 · pass · 66-8

    Member-level votes (80)
    • Ahrens: yes
    • Mark González: yes
    • Quirk-Silva: yes
    • Gipson: yes
    • Rogers: yes
    • Addis: yes
    • Ward: yes
    • Haney: yes
    • Hart: yes
    • Fong: yes
    • Calderon: yes
    • Elhawary: yes
    • Wilson: yes
    • Carrillo: yes
    • Bains: yes
    • Ransom: yes
    • Soria: yes
    • Michelle Rodriguez: yes
    • Berman: yes
    • Valencia: yes
    • Wicks: yes
    • Celeste Rodriguez: yes
    • Arambula: yes
    • Connolly: yes
    • Schultz: yes
    • Bauer-Kahan: yes
    • Bennett: yes
    • Papan: yes
    • Schiavo: yes
    • Bonta: yes
    • Ávila Farías: yes
    • Aguiar-Curry: yes
    • Jeff Gonzalez: yes
    • Pacheco: yes
    • Boerner: yes
    • Alvarez: yes
    • Lee: yes
    • Alanis: yes
    • Wallis: yes
    • Patterson: yes
    • Stefani: yes
    • Caloza: yes
    • Hoover: yes
    • Sharp-Collins: yes
    • Nguyen: yes
    • Ortega: yes
    • Solache: yes
    • Lowenthal: yes
    • Blanca Rubio: yes
    • Jackson: yes
    • Bryan: yes
    • Petrie-Norris: yes
    • Harabedian: yes
    • Gabriel: yes
    • Zbur: yes
    • Davies: yes
    • McKinnor: yes
    • Pellerin: yes
    • Muratsuchi: yes
    • Krell: yes
    • Irwin: yes
    • Ramos: yes
    • Patel: yes
    • Kalra: yes
    • Rivas: yes
    • Garcia: yes
    • Johnson: no
    • Dixon: no
    • Tangipa: no
    • Macedo: no
    • Gallagher: no
    • Sanchez: no
    • Ellis: no
    • DeMaio: no
    • Hadwick: other
    • Lackey: other
    • Chen: other
    • Castillo: other
    • Flora: other
    • Ta: other

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