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California · 2025–26 Regular Session · Assembly Bill

AB 1162: Challenges to housing and community-serving projects.

Passed one chamber Official data

  1. Introduced
  2. In committee
  3. Passed one chamber
  4. Passed both chambers
  5. Enacted

Last official action: ·Record last updated:

Plain-language summary

AB 1162 is a assembly bill introduced in the California Assembly on February 20, 2025. According to its official title, it concerns: Challenges to housing and community-serving projects. Primary sponsor: Mia Bonta (D). Most recent recorded action (August 29, 2025): In committee: Held under submission.

Generated automatically from the official title, sponsor list, and status record only. It does not characterize the bill’s purpose or effects. How summaries are written

Official summary

Legislative Counsel’s Digest (official, as of the latest version). Written by nonpartisan legislative staff; reproduced verbatim.

Existing law provides that in a civil action brought by a plaintiff to challenge a housing development project that meets or exceeds the requirements for low- or moderate-income housing, a defendant may seek an order requiring the plaintiff to furnish an undertaking as security for costs and damages that may be incurred by the defendant if the bringing of the action would result in preventing or delaying the project, as specified. Existing law authorizes the court to limit the amount of the undertaking or to decline to require the plaintiff to furnish an undertaking if the court determines that, based on evidence submitted by the plaintiff, furnishing an undertaking would cause the plaintiff to suffer undue economic hardship.

This bill would expand the type of civil actions for which motions for undertaking may be filed to include actions that challenge a community-serving project, as defined.

Sponsors

Sponsors by party (alphabetical): Democratic 1

NameRolePartyChamberDistrict
Mia BontaPrimary sponsorDemocraticAssembly18

“Support” is shown only as formal sponsorship recorded by the legislature. Roll-call votes are available on the official bill page.

Recent official actions

  1. In committee: Held under submission.
  2. In committee: Referred to APPR. suspense file.
  3. From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 12. Noes 0.) (June 24). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
  4. Referred to Coms. on JUD. and APPR.
  5. In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment.
  6. Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 77. Noes 0. Page 1521.)
  7. Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar.
  8. From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 12. Noes 0.) (May 6).
  9. Re-referred to Com. on JUD.
  10. From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on JUD. Read second time and amended.
  11. In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
  12. Referred to Com. on JUD.

Sources

  1. California Legislative Information — pubinfo database export
  2. Official bill page