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CA AB 439

enacted

California Coastal Act of 1976: local planning and reporting.

California · 2025-2026 Regular Session · lower

Quick answers

Did CA AB 439 pass?

Yes. CA AB 439 has been enacted into law as of 2025-10-10. Latest recorded action (2025-10-10): Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 556, Statutes of 2025.

What is CA AB 439 about?

Existing law, the California Coastal Act of 1976 (the Coastal Act) , among other things, requires anyone wishing to perform or undertake any development in the coastal zone, except as specified, in addition to obtaining any other permit required by law from any local government or from any state, regional, or local agency, to obtain a coastal development permit, as provided. The Coastal Act generally requires each local government, as specified, to prepare a local coastal program, for certification by the California Coastal Commission. Existing law also imposes an analogous requirement on port governing bodies to prepare port master plans, for certification by the commission. With regard to local coastal programs and port master plans, existing law provides that an amendment determined to be de minimis by the executive director of the commission, after notice in the agenda of the next scheduled commission meeting, becomes a part of the certified program or plan 10 days after the commission meeting if 3 or more members of the commission do not object to the de minimis determination. This bill would make de minimis amendments to local coastal programs and port master plans effective upon adjournment of that meeting if 3 or more members of the commission do not object to the de minimis determination. The Coastal Act authorizes the commission to impose specified administrative penalties on a person, including a landowner, who is in violation of any provision of the act other than public access, and separate administrative penalties for violations relating to public access. Regarding the violations of the act unrelated to public access, existing law requires the commission staff to annually prepare and present a written report to the full commission that includes specified information related to the imposition of those penalties and to annually provide the written report to the Legislature, as prescribed. This bill would require the commission staff to prepare and present a written report to the full commission every 5 years instead of annually, as specified, and would require the report to address public access violations as well. The bill would require the report to include, in addition, the number of violations referred to the Attorney General, the number of pending violations at the end of the reporting period, and summaries of violations that were resolved that are both illustrative of the commission's enforcement workload and that provided significant public benefit. This bill would repeal an obsolete reporting requirement that concerned violations of the act related to public access.

Who sponsors CA AB 439?

Rogers is the primary sponsor of CA AB 439.

Description

Existing law, the California Coastal Act of 1976 (the Coastal Act) , among other things, requires anyone wishing to perform or undertake any development in the coastal zone, except as specified, in addition to obtaining any other permit required by law from any local government or from any state, regional, or local agency, to obtain a coastal development permit, as provided. The Coastal Act generally requires each local government, as specified, to prepare a local coastal program, for certification by the California Coastal Commission. Existing law also imposes an analogous requirement on port governing bodies to prepare port master plans, for certification by the commission. With regard to local coastal programs and port master plans, existing law provides that an amendment determined to be de minimis by the executive director of the commission, after notice in the agenda of the next scheduled commission meeting, becomes a part of the certified program or plan 10 days after the commission meeting if 3 or more members of the commission do not object to the de minimis determination. This bill would make de minimis amendments to local coastal programs and port master plans effective upon adjournment of that meeting if 3 or more members of the commission do not object to the de minimis determination. The Coastal Act authorizes the commission to impose specified administrative penalties on a person, including a landowner, who is in violation of any provision of the act other than public access, and separate administrative penalties for violations relating to public access. Regarding the violations of the act unrelated to public access, existing law requires the commission staff to annually prepare and present a written report to the full commission that includes specified information related to the imposition of those penalties and to annually provide the written report to the Legislature, as prescribed. This bill would require the commission staff to prepare and present a written report to the full commission every 5 years instead of annually, as specified, and would require the report to address public access violations as well. The bill would require the report to include, in addition, the number of violations referred to the Attorney General, the number of pending violations at the end of the reporting period, and summaries of violations that were resolved that are both illustrative of the commission's enforcement workload and that provided significant public benefit. This bill would repeal an obsolete reporting requirement that concerned violations of the act related to public access.

Introduced
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Latest action
2025-10-10 — Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 556, Statutes of 2025.
Bill type
bill
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Subjects

Sponsors

  • Rogersauthor

Committees

Not provided by source.

Action timeline

  1. 2025-02-06

    Read first time. To print.

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  2. 2025-02-07

    From printer. May be heard in committee March 9.

  3. 2025-02-18

    Referred to Com. on NAT. RES.

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  4. 2025-03-25

    From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 11. Noes 1.) (March 24). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.

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  5. 2025-04-09

    From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 10. Noes 2.) (April 9).

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  6. 2025-04-10

    Read second time. Ordered to third reading.

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  7. 2025-04-28

    Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 54. Noes 13. Page 1314.)

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  8. 2025-04-29

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

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  9. 2025-05-07

    Referred to Com. on N.R. & W.

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  10. 2025-06-10

    From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 6. Noes 1.) (June 10). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.

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  11. 2025-06-23

    From committee: Be ordered to second reading pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8.

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  12. 2025-06-24

    Read second time. Ordered to third reading.

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  13. 2025-09-03

    Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 31. Noes 8. Page 2457.).

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  14. 2025-09-03

    In Assembly. Ordered to Engrossing and Enrolling.

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  15. 2025-09-09

    Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m.

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  16. 2025-10-10

    Approved by the Governor.

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  17. 2025-10-10

    Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 556, Statutes of 2025.

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Versions

Documents

Votes

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

    2025-03-24 · pass · 11-1

    Member-level votes (14)
    • Zbur: yes
    • Haney: yes
    • Schultz: yes
    • Alanis: yes
    • Flora: yes
    • Muratsuchi: yes
    • Bryan: yes
    • Connolly: yes
    • Garcia: yes
    • Kalra: yes
    • Pellerin: yes
    • Davies: no
    • Wicks: other
    • Sanchez: other

  • Do pass.

    2025-04-09 · pass · 10-2

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

  • AB 439 Rogers Assembly Third Reading

    2025-04-28 · pass · 54-13

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

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

    2025-06-10 · pass · 6-1

    Member-level votes (7)
    • Limón: yes
    • Stern: yes
    • Grove: yes
    • Allen: yes
    • Laird: yes
    • Hurtado: yes
    • Seyarto: no

  • 3rd Reading AB439 Rogers By Allen

    2025-09-03 · pass · 31-8

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

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http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB439

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