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CA AB 413

enacted

Department of Housing and Community Development: guidelines: translation.

California · 2025-2026 Regular Session · lower

Quick answers

Did CA AB 413 pass?

Yes. CA AB 413 has been enacted into law as of 2025-10-10. Latest recorded action (2025-10-10): Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 489, Statutes of 2025.

What is CA AB 413 about?

Existing law establishes the Department of Housing and Community Development (department) in the Business, Consumer Services, and Housing Agency. Existing law grants the department various powers, including the power to provide bilingual staff in connection with services of the department and make available departmental publications in a language other than English when necessary to effectively serve groups for which the services or publications are made available. Existing law authorizes the department to adopt and amend guidelines for various purposes, including for the preparation of housing elements or to implement uniform standards or criteria, as provided. This bill would require the department to review all guidelines it has adopted or amended to determine whether those guidelines explain rights or services available to the public. For guidelines that meet that criteria, the bill would require the department to translate those guidelines into any non-English languages spoken by a substantial number of non-English-speaking people, as defined.

Who sponsors CA AB 413?

Fong is the primary sponsor of CA AB 413.

Description

Existing law establishes the Department of Housing and Community Development (department) in the Business, Consumer Services, and Housing Agency. Existing law grants the department various powers, including the power to provide bilingual staff in connection with services of the department and make available departmental publications in a language other than English when necessary to effectively serve groups for which the services or publications are made available. Existing law authorizes the department to adopt and amend guidelines for various purposes, including for the preparation of housing elements or to implement uniform standards or criteria, as provided. This bill would require the department to review all guidelines it has adopted or amended to determine whether those guidelines explain rights or services available to the public. For guidelines that meet that criteria, the bill would require the department to translate those guidelines into any non-English languages spoken by a substantial number of non-English-speaking people, as defined.

Introduced
Latest action
2025-10-10 — Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 489, Statutes of 2025.
Bill type
bill
Last updated

Subjects

Sponsors

  • Fongauthor

Committees

Not provided by source.

Action timeline

  1. 2025-02-04

    Read first time. To print.

    reading-1

  2. 2025-02-05

    From printer. May be heard in committee March 7.

  3. 2025-02-18

    Referred to Com. on H. & C.D.

    referral-committee

  4. 2025-04-28

    From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 11. Noes 0.) (April 24). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.

    committee-passage,committee-passage-favorable,referral-committee

  5. 2025-05-07

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

    referral-committee

  6. 2025-05-23

    From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 13. Noes 0.) (May 23).

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  7. 2025-05-27

    Read second time. Ordered to third reading.

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  8. 2025-06-02

    Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 79. Noes 0. Page 1826.)

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  9. 2025-06-03

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

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  10. 2025-06-11

    Referred to Com. on HOUSING.

    referral-committee

  11. 2025-06-18

    From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.) (June 17). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.

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  12. 2025-06-30

    In committee: Referred to APPR. suspense file.

    referral-committee

  13. 2025-08-29

    Read second time. Ordered to third reading.

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  14. 2025-08-29

    From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (August 29).

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  15. 2025-09-02

    Ordered to special consent calendar.

  16. 2025-09-04

    Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 39. Noes 0. Page 2520.).

    passage,reading-1,reading-3

  17. 2025-09-04

    In Assembly. Ordered to Engrossing and Enrolling.

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  18. 2025-09-11

    Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.

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  19. 2025-10-10

    Approved by the Governor.

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  20. 2025-10-10

    Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 489, Statutes of 2025.

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Versions

Documents

Votes

  • Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with recommendation: To Consent Calendar

    2025-04-24 · pass · 11-0

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

    2025-05-23 · pass · 13-0

    Member-level votes (15)
    • Calderon: yes
    • Elhawary: yes
    • Dixon: yes
    • Hart: yes
    • Mark González: yes
    • Arambula: yes
    • Pacheco: yes
    • Solache: yes
    • Ta: yes
    • Caloza: yes
    • Wicks: yes
    • Pellerin: yes
    • Fong: yes
    • Sanchez: other
    • Tangipa: other
  • AB 413 Fong Assembly Third Reading

    2025-06-02 · pass · 79-0

    Member-level votes (79)
    • Rivas: yes
    • Rogers: yes
    • Wicks: yes
    • Irwin: yes
    • Arambula: yes
    • Caloza: yes
    • Ward: yes
    • Nguyen: yes
    • Patel: yes
    • Solache: yes
    • Chen: yes
    • Bonta: yes
    • McKinnor: yes
    • Pacheco: yes
    • DeMaio: yes
    • Celeste Rodriguez: yes
    • Castillo: yes
    • Sanchez: yes
    • Schultz: yes
    • Hadwick: yes
    • Lee: yes
    • Bryan: yes
    • Michelle Rodriguez: yes
    • Mark González: yes
    • Patterson: yes
    • Carrillo: yes
    • Muratsuchi: yes
    • Papan: yes
    • Jeff Gonzalez: yes
    • Ransom: yes
    • Wallis: yes
    • Elhawary: yes
    • Davies: yes
    • Macedo: yes
    • Sharp-Collins: yes
    • Berman: yes
    • Jackson: yes
    • Wilson: yes
    • Lackey: yes
    • Bennett: yes
    • Petrie-Norris: yes
    • Harabedian: yes
    • Ellis: yes
    • Aguiar-Curry: yes
    • Connolly: yes
    • Quirk-Silva: yes
    • Soria: yes
    • Tangipa: yes
    • Gipson: yes
    • Alvarez: yes
    • Hoover: yes
    • Ta: yes
    • Zbur: yes
    • Flora: yes
    • Valencia: yes
    • Addis: yes
    • Garcia: yes
    • Gallagher: yes
    • Krell: yes
    • Ahrens: yes
    • Stefani: yes
    • Calderon: yes
    • Blanca Rubio: yes
    • Lowenthal: yes
    • Schiavo: yes
    • Gabriel: yes
    • Dixon: yes
    • Ávila Farías: yes
    • Fong: yes
    • Ramos: yes
    • Pellerin: yes
    • Kalra: yes
    • Alanis: yes
    • Haney: yes
    • Hart: yes
    • Boerner: yes
    • Bauer-Kahan: yes
    • Ortega: yes
    • Bains: yes
  • Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with the recommendation: To Consent Calendar

    2025-06-17 · pass · 9-0

    Member-level votes (11)
    • Grayson: yes
    • Caballero: yes
    • Ochoa Bogh: yes
    • Wahab: yes
    • Cabaldon: yes
    • Durazo: yes
    • Cortese: yes
    • Seyarto: yes
    • Arreguín: yes
    • 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

    2025-08-29 · pass · 7-0

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

    2025-09-04 · pass · 39-0

    Member-level votes (40)
    • Stern: yes
    • Durazo: yes
    • Cabaldon: yes
    • McGuire: yes
    • Laird: yes
    • Limón: yes
    • Valladares: yes
    • Menjivar: yes
    • Wahab: yes
    • Alvarado-Gil: yes
    • Rubio: yes
    • Pérez: yes
    • Cortese: yes
    • Gonzalez: yes
    • Choi: yes
    • Umberg: yes
    • Allen: yes
    • Smallwood-Cuevas: yes
    • Richardson: yes
    • Blakespear: yes
    • Arreguín: yes
    • Hurtado: yes
    • Padilla: yes
    • Caballero: yes
    • Weber Pierson: yes
    • Niello: yes
    • Grove: yes
    • Jones: yes
    • Ashby: yes
    • Ochoa Bogh: yes
    • Archuleta: yes
    • Grayson: yes
    • Dahle: yes
    • Wiener: yes
    • Cervantes: yes
    • Seyarto: yes
    • Strickland: yes
    • McNerney: yes
    • Becker: yes
    • Reyes: other

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