20250AB__218598AMD INTRODUCED 2026-02-19 AMENDED_ASSEMBLY 2026-03-19 2025 AB AMD Introduced by Assembly Member Quirk-Silva LEAD_AUTHOR ASSEMBLY Quirk-Silva

An act to add

Section to the Health and Safety Code, relating to housing. housing Housing: multifamily affordable housing programs. Existing law, the Governor’s Reorganization Plan No. 1 of 2025 (GRP), which became effective on July 5, 2025, reorganized specified state agencies and departments, including eliminating the Business, Consumer Services, and Housing Agency as of July 1, 2026, and instead establishing the Business and Consumer Services Agency and the California Housing and Homelessness Agency.

The GRP, as of July 1, 2026, sets forth the general responsibilities and roles of the California Housing Homelessness Agency, the Department of Housing and Community Development, the Housing Development and Finance Committee, and the California Housing Finance Agency in carrying out state housing policies and programs. Existing law establishes programs providing assistance for, among other things, multifamily housing, farmworker housing, and veteran housing.

This bill would require the California Housing and Homelessness Agency, the California Housing Finance Agency, the California Debt Limit Allocation Committee, and the California Tax Credit Allocation Committee, no later than July 1, 2027, when administering a multifamily affordable housing program, as specified, to, among other things, review, analyze, and make any changes necessary to their guidelines and regulations to facilitate the production and use of factory-built housing.

Existing law, the Planning and Zoning Law, requires a city or county to adopt a general plan for the land use and development of the county or city that includes, among other things, a housing element.</xhtml:p><xhtml:p>Existing law expresses the intent of the Legislature, in enacting the housing element requirement, to accomplish various objectives relating to the attainment of the state housing goal and regional housing needs.</xhtml:p><xhtml:p>This bill would make a nonsubstantive change to those provisions.</xhtml:p>"?> MAJORITY NO YES NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO The people of the State of California do enact as follows:

SECTION 1.

Section is added to the Health and Safety Code , to read: 50158. (

a) For purposes of this section, the following

definitions apply: (1) “Agency” includes all of the following: (

A) California Debt Limit Allocation Committee. (

B) California Housing and Homelessness Agency. (

C) California Housing Finance Agency. (

D) California Tax Credit Allocation Committee. (2) “Multifamily affordable housing program” includes all of the following: (

A) The Affordable Housing and Sustainable Communities Program (Part 1 (commencing with

Section 75200) of Division of the Public Resources Code). (

B) The Infill Incentive Grant Program of 2007 (Section 53545.13). (

C) The Infill Infrastructure Grant Program of 2019 (Part 12.5 (commencing with

Section 53559)). (

D) The Joe Serna, Jr. Farmworker Housing Grant Program (Chapter 3.2 (commencing with

Section 50515.2) of

Part 2). (

E) The Low-Income Housing Tax Credit Program (Chapter 3.6 (commencing with

Section 50199.4)). (

F) The Multifamily Housing Program (Chapter 6.7 (commencing with

Section 50675) of

Part 2). (

G) The Multifamily Rental Housing Program (Chapter 6.7 (commencing with

Section 51325) of

Part 3) administered by the California Housing Finance Agency. (

H) The Transit-Oriented Development Implementation Program (Part 13 (commencing with

Section 53560)). (

I) The Veterans Housing and Homeless Prevention Act of 2014 (Article 3.2 (commencing with

Section 987.001) of

Chapter of Division of the Military and Veterans Code). (

b) No later than July 1, 2027, the agency, when administering a multifamily affordable housing program, shall do all of the following:

(1) Review, analyze, and make any changes necessary to their guidelines and regulations to facilitate the production and use of factory-built housing.

(2) Clarify that factory-built housing projects are an allowable use of funding under these programs. (3) (

A) To the extent the agency directly funds the multifamily affordable housing program project, whether for construction financing, permanent financing, or both, make sufficient early deposits available for factory-built housing projects as an allowable use of funding under each of these programs to support the upfront payments needed to cover material costs and factory production. (

B) Each agency shall establish market-based underwriting guidelines as to the amount and timing of early deposits, including a requirement that any project receiving financial support be considered to have all of its construction and permanent financing committed at the time the deposits are funded by the agency. (

C) Each agency may require that either the factory, general contractor, or project sponsor provide a payment and performance bond, financial guarantee, letter of credit, or other security to protect the agency in the event that the project fails to close its financing and begin construction. <caml:Num>SECTION 1.</caml:Num><caml:ActionLine action="IS_AMENDED" xlink:href="urn:caml:codes:GOV:caml#xpointer(%2Fcaml%3ALawDoc%2Fcaml%3ACode%2Fcaml%3ALawHeading%5B%40type%3D'TITLE'%20and%20caml%3ANum%3D'7.'%5D%2Fcaml%3ALawHeading%5B%40type%3D'DIVISION'%20and%20caml%3ANum%3D'1.'%5D%2Fcaml%3ALawHeading%5B%40type%3D'CHAPTER'%20and%20caml%3ANum%3D'3.'%5D%2Fcaml%3ALawHeading%5B%40type%3D'ARTICLE'%20and%20caml%3ANum%3D'10.6.'%5D%2Fcaml%3ALawSection%5Bcaml%3ANum%3D'65581.'%5D)" xlink:label="fractionType: LAW_SECTION" xlink:type="locator">Section of the <caml:DocName>Government Code</caml:DocName> is amended to read:</caml:ActionLine><caml:Fragment><caml:LawSection id="id_278D2DA8-4482-499B-BFC0-8BF197667048"><caml:Num>65581.</caml:Num><caml:LawSectionVersion id="id_6FBD9334-06D5-4B49-AA53-C1E82640F2EE"><caml:Content><xhtml:p>It is the intent of the Legislature in enacting this article:</xhtml:p><xhtml:p>(a)<xhtml:span class="EnSpace"/>To assure that counties and cities recognize their responsibilities in contributing to the attainment of the state housing goal.</xhtml:p><xhtml:p>(b)<xhtml:span class="EnSpace"/>To assure that counties and cities will prepare and implement housing elements which, along with federal and state programs, will move toward attainment of the state housing goal.</xhtml:p><xhtml:p>(c)<xhtml:span class="EnSpace"/>To recognize that each locality is best capable of determining what efforts are required by it to contribute to the attainment of the state housing goal, provided such a determination is compatible with the state housing goal and regional housing needs.</xhtml:p><xhtml:p>(d)<xhtml:span class="EnSpace"/>To ensure that each local government cooperates with other local governments to address regional housing needs.</xhtml:p></caml:Content></caml:LawSectionVersion></caml:LawSection></caml:Fragment></caml:BillSection>"?>