CA AB 2480
introducedHousing development: density bonus: student housing developments.
California · 2025-2026 Regular Session · lower
Description
Existing law, commonly referred to as the Density Bonus Law, requires a city or county to provide a developer that proposes a housing development, as defined, within the city or county with a density bonus and other incentives or concessions, as specified, if the developer agrees to construct, among other options, 20% of the total units, as defined, for lower income students in a student housing development that meets certain requirements. These requirements include, among other things, that all units in the student housing development be used exclusively for undergraduate, graduate, or professional students enrolled full time at an institution of higher learning, and the rent provided in the applicable units of the development for lower income students is calculated at 30% of 65% of the area median income for a single-room occupancy unit type. This bill, for the purposes of a student housing development being eligible for a density bonus and other incentives or concessions, would revise and recast the rent requirements for the applicable units of the development for lower income students. The bill would also require a city or county to provide an additional density bonus, as specified, for a student housing development that meets the requirements for being eligible for the above-described density bonus and meets other specified criteria, including that the development provides 24% of the total units to lower income students, and the applicant agrees to include additional rental units affordable to moderate-income students, as defined, provided that the resulting student housing development would not restrict more than 50% of the total units, as defined, to moderate-income or lower income students. By imposing new duties on local governments, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program. 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. 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.
- Introduced
- 2026-04-07
- Status date
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- Latest action
- 2026-06-30 — Read second time. Ordered to third reading.
- Bill type
- bill
- Last updated
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Subjects
Sponsors
- Ávila Faríasauthor
- Ransomcoauthor
Committees
Not provided by source.
Action timeline
2026-02-20
Read first time. To print.
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2026-02-21
From printer. May be heard in committee March 23.
2026-03-09
Referred to Coms. on H. & C.D. and L. GOV.
referral-committee
2026-04-07
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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2026-04-08
Re-referred to Com. on H. & C.D.
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2026-04-15
From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on L. GOV. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 12. Noes 0.) (April 15).
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2026-04-16
Read second time and amended.
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2026-04-16
Assembly Rule 56 suspended. (Page 4663.)
2026-04-16
(Pending re-refer to Com. on L. GOV.)
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2026-04-20
Re-referred to Com. on L. GOV.
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2026-04-23
Coauthors revised.
2026-04-23
From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 10. Noes 0.) (April 22). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
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2026-05-06
From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 14. Noes 0.) (May 6).
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2026-05-07
Read second time. Ordered to third reading.
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2026-05-21
Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 74. Noes 0. Page 5181.)
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2026-05-21
In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment.
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2026-06-03
Referred to Com. on HOUSING.
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2026-06-17
From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 10. Noes 0.) (June 16).
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2026-06-18
Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
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2026-06-29
From committee: Be ordered to second reading pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8.
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2026-06-30
Read second time. Ordered to third reading.
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Votes
Do pass as amended, and be re-referred to the Committee on [Local Government] with recommendation: To Consent Calendar
2026-04-15 · pass · 12-0
Member-level votes (12)
- Patterson: yes
- Wilson: yes
- Ávila Farías: yes
- Haney: yes
- Lee: yes
- Caloza: yes
- Tangipa: yes
- Wicks: yes
- Ta: yes
- Kalra: yes
- Quirk-Silva: yes
- Garcia: yes
Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations]
2026-04-22 · pass · 10-0
Member-level votes (10)
- Carrillo: yes
- Stefani: yes
- Ramos: yes
- Ward: yes
- Wilson: yes
- Blanca Rubio: yes
- Ta: yes
- Ransom: yes
- Pacheco: yes
- Johnson: yes
Do pass.
2026-05-06 · pass · 14-0
Member-level votes (15)
- Sharp-Collins: yes
- Aguiar-Curry: yes
- Solache: yes
- Tangipa: yes
- Fong: yes
- Pellerin: yes
- Pacheco: yes
- Dixon: yes
- Caloza: yes
- Mark González: yes
- Ta: yes
- Wicks: yes
- Krell: yes
- Hoover: yes
- Arambula: other
AB 2480 Ávila Farías Assembly Third Reading
2026-05-21 · pass · 74-0
Member-level votes (80)
- Ta: yes
- Lowenthal: yes
- Stefani: yes
- Mark González: yes
- Soria: yes
- Dixon: yes
- Ortega: yes
- Sharp-Collins: yes
- Ávila Farías: yes
- Schultz: yes
- Berman: yes
- Schiavo: yes
- Rogers: yes
- Papan: yes
- Petrie-Norris: yes
- Caloza: yes
- Ahrens: yes
- Ellis: yes
- Haney: yes
- Solache: yes
- Nguyen: yes
- Patel: yes
- Tangipa: yes
- Bonta: yes
- Aguiar-Curry: yes
- Calderon: yes
- Patterson: yes
- Quirk-Silva: yes
- Kalra: yes
- Wicks: yes
- Davies: yes
- Lee: yes
- Wallis: yes
- Alanis: yes
- Michelle Rodriguez: yes
- Gabriel: yes
- Boerner: yes
- Krell: yes
- Ransom: yes
- Bryan: yes
- Castillo: yes
- Rivas: yes
- Wilson: yes
- Pacheco: yes
- Bains: yes
- Harabedian: yes
- Zbur: yes
- Valencia: yes
- Carrillo: yes
- Fong: yes
- Addis: yes
- Connolly: yes
- Gipson: yes
- Elhawary: yes
- Hoover: yes
- Pellerin: yes
- Ward: yes
- Jeff Gonzalez: yes
- McKinnor: yes
- Hadwick: yes
- Bennett: yes
- Hart: yes
- DeMaio: yes
- Gallagher: yes
- Jackson: yes
- Johnson: yes
- Flora: yes
- Macedo: yes
- Muratsuchi: yes
- Blanca Rubio: yes
- Sanchez: yes
- Irwin: yes
- Alvarez: yes
- Bauer-Kahan: yes
- Celeste Rodriguez: other
- Ramos: other
- Garcia: other
- Lackey: other
- Arambula: other
- Chen: other
Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Appropriations]
2026-06-16 · pass · 10-0
Member-level votes (10)
- Arreguín: yes
- Padilla: yes
- Durazo: yes
- Cabaldon: yes
- Cortese: yes
- Grayson: yes
- Ochoa Bogh: yes
- Seyarto: yes
- Caballero: yes
- Gonzalez: yes
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