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SB-507 • 2026

Planning and zoning: regional housing needs allocation.

Planning and zoning: regional housing needs allocation.

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Enacted

This bill passed the Legislature and reached final enactment based on the latest official action.

Sponsor
Limón
Last action
2025-10-10
Official status
Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 519, Statutes of 2025.
Effective date
Not listed

Plain English Breakdown

The bill summary text does not specify how many units from tribal housing projects will count toward the regional housing needs allocation.

Planning and Zoning: Regional Housing Needs Allocation

This law allows local governments within the same county as a Native American tribe to enter into voluntary agreements with tribes for new housing projects that can count towards meeting regional housing needs.

What This Bill Does

  • Allows local governments within the same county as a Native American tribe to enter into voluntary agreements with the tribe regarding tribal housing development projects.
  • Specifies that these agreements do not require the tribe to give up its legal protections (sovereign immunity).
  • Encourages the Department of Housing and Community Development to approve units in tribal housing developments towards meeting regional housing needs.

Who It Names or Affects

  • Local governments within counties that have Native American tribes.
  • Native American tribes located within a county.
  • The Department of Housing and Community Development.

Terms To Know

Sovereign Immunity
A legal protection that allows the government to not be sued without its permission.
Regional Housing Needs Allocation
The amount of housing a local area must provide based on state requirements.

Limits and Unknowns

  • Does not specify how many units in tribal housing developments will count towards the regional housing needs allocation.
  • Does not detail what happens if there is disagreement between a local government and a tribe about an agreement.

Bill History

  1. 2025-10-10 California Legislative Information

    Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 519, Statutes of 2025.

  2. 2025-10-10 California Legislative Information

    Approved by the Governor.

  3. 2025-09-09 California Legislative Information

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

  4. 2025-09-03 California Legislative Information

    Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 40. Noes 0. Page 2444.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling.

  5. 2025-08-28 California Legislative Information

    In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.

  6. 2025-08-28 California Legislative Information

    Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 74. Noes 0. Page 2776.) Ordered to the Senate.

  7. 2025-08-21 California Legislative Information

    Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar.

  8. 2025-08-20 California Legislative Information

    From committee: Do pass. Ordered to consent calendar. (Ayes 15. Noes 0.) (August 20).

  9. 2025-07-17 California Legislative Information

    From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To consent calendar. (Ayes 10. Noes 0.) (July 16). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.

  10. 2025-07-08 California Legislative Information

    From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on L. GOV.

  11. 2025-07-03 California Legislative Information

    From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on L. GOV. with recommendation: To consent calendar. (Ayes 12. Noes 0.) (July 2). Re-referred to Com. on L. GOV.

  12. 2025-06-09 California Legislative Information

    Referred to Coms. on H. & C.D. and L. GOV.

  13. 2025-06-03 California Legislative Information

    In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk.

  14. 2025-06-02 California Legislative Information

    Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 38. Noes 0. Page 1404.) Ordered to the Assembly.

  15. 2025-05-20 California Legislative Information

    Read second time. Ordered to third reading.

  16. 2025-05-19 California Legislative Information

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

  17. 2025-05-09 California Legislative Information

    Set for hearing May 19.

  18. 2025-05-01 California Legislative Information

    Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR.

  19. 2025-04-30 California Legislative Information

    From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 11. Noes 0. Page 936.) (April 29).

  20. 2025-04-24 California Legislative Information

    Set for hearing April 29.

  21. 2025-04-02 California Legislative Information

    Re-referred to Com. on HOUSING.

  22. 2025-03-25 California Legislative Information

    From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on RLS.

  23. 2025-02-26 California Legislative Information

    Referred to Com. on RLS.

  24. 2025-02-20 California Legislative Information

    From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 22.

  25. 2025-02-19 California Legislative Information

    Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print.

Official Summary Text

SB 507, Limón.
Planning and zoning: regional housing needs allocation.
Existing law, the Planning and Zoning Law, requires each city, county, or city and county to prepare and adopt a general plan for its jurisdiction that contains certain mandatory elements, including a housing element. Under existing law, a part of the housing element is an assessment of housing needs, which includes the locality’s share of the regional housing need. Under existing law, the appropriate council of governments, or for cities and counties without a council of governments, the Department of Housing and Community Development, adopts a final regional housing need plan that allocates a share of the regional housing need to each locality in the region. Existing law authorizes a local government to conduct a review or appeal regarding allocation data provided by the department or the council of governments regarding, among other things, the locality’s share of the regional
housing need.
This bill would authorize a local government within the same county as a tribe to enter into a voluntary agreement with a tribe to allow new tribal housing development projects to count toward the locality’s share of the regional housing needs allocation, as specified. The bill would prohibit a local government from requiring a tribe to waive sovereign immunity in order to enter into a voluntary agreement pursuant to these provisions. The bill would define various terms for these provisions. The bill would state the intent of the Legislature that the Department of Housing and Community Development be encouraged to approve units in a tribal housing development as counting toward the locality’s regional housing needs allocation, as specified.
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.

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