SB-1426 • 2026

Planning and zoning: annual report.

Housing Land

Passed Legislature

This bill passed both chambers and reached final enrollment, even if later executive action is not shown here.

Sponsor: Committee on Housing (S) - (Senators Arreguín (Chair), Cabaldon, Caballero, Cortese, Durazo, Gonzalez, Grayson, Ochoa Bogh, Padilla, and Seyarto)
Last action: 2026-04-16
Official status: In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk.
Effective date: Not listed

Plain English Breakdown

The official source does not specify the exact nature of nonsubstantive changes or conforming changes, leaving some uncertainty in their specific impact.

Planning and Zoning: Annual Report

The bill makes nonsubstantive changes and reorganizes the requirements for annual reports related to planning and zoning.

What This Bill Does

Changes how cities and counties report their yearly progress in planning and zoning.
Reorganizes the information to make it easier to understand.

Who It Names or Affects

Cities and counties in California
The Office of Land Use and Climate Innovation
The Department of Housing and Community Development

Terms To Know

Annual Report: A yearly document that cities and counties must send to the state about their planning and zoning activities.
Housing Element: Part of a city or county's plan that focuses on housing needs and goals.

Limits and Unknowns

The bill does not change major policies, only how information is organized.
It is unclear if this will affect other parts of planning and zoning laws beyond annual reports.

Bill History

2026-04-16 California Legislative Information
In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk.
2026-04-16 California Legislative Information
Read third time. Urgency clause adopted. Passed. (Ayes 38. Noes 0.) Ordered to the Assembly.
2026-04-09 California Legislative Information
Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar.
2026-04-08 California Legislative Information
From committee: Do pass. Ordered to consent calendar. (Ayes 10. Noes 0.) (April 7).
2026-03-17 California Legislative Information
Set for hearing April 7.
2026-03-04 California Legislative Information
Referred to Com. on HOUSING.
2026-02-25 California Legislative Information
From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 27.
2026-02-24 California Legislative Information
Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print.

Official Summary Text

SB 1426, as introduced, Committee on Housing.
Planning and zoning: annual report.
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 Office of Land Use and Climate Innovation and the Department of Housing and Community Development, that includes, among other specified information, the status of a development of land disposed, as described, the information each county and city is required to include in its central inventory of surplus land and report, as specified, and the number of applications for parcel maps for urban lot splits, as provided.
This bill would make nonsubstantive changes and reorganize various provisions relating to the annual report requirements, including the requirements described above, and would make related nonsubstantive conforming changes.
This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as an urgency statute.

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