California · 2025–26 Regular Session · Assembly Bill
AB 2118: Affordable Housing and High Road Jobs Act of 2022: use by right: objective standards.
Enacted Official data
- Introduced
- In committee
- Passed one chamber
- Passed both chambers
- Enacted
Last official action: ·Record last updated:
Plain-language summary
AB 2118 is a assembly bill introduced in the California Assembly on February 18, 2026. According to its official title, it concerns: Affordable Housing and High Road Jobs Act of 2022: use by right: objective standards. Primary sponsor: Josh Hoover (R). It lists 1 additional sponsor. Most recent recorded action (September 27, 2026): Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 579, Statutes of 2026.
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Official summary
Legislative Counsel’s Digest (official, as of the latest version). Written by nonpartisan legislative staff; reproduced verbatim.
The Affordable Housing and High Road Jobs Act of 2022, until January 1, 2033, authorizes a development proponent to submit an application for a mixed-income housing development along a commercial corridor that satisfies specified site criteria, affordability criteria, and objective development standards, and deems a housing development that meets those requirements a use by right and subject to streamlined, ministerial review. Existing law prohibits the objective standards from precluding a development from being built at specified residential density required and from requiring the development to reduce unit size to meet the objective standards.
This bill would also prohibit the objective standards from prohibiting or otherwise limiting mixed-use development, as defined, in a housing development project. By changing the criteria local agencies must follow for the approval of certain development projects, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program.
The Affordable Housing and High Road Jobs Act of 2022 defines various terms for purposes of the act.
This bill would make nonsubstantive changes to those definition provisions.
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.
The California Constitution requires the state to reimburse local agencies and school districts for certain costs mandated by the state. Statutory provisions establish procedures for making that reimbursement.
Sponsors
Sponsors by party (alphabetical): Republican 2
| Name | Role | Party | Chamber | District |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Josh Hoover | Primary sponsor | Republican | Assembly | 7 |
| Kelly Seyarto | Co-sponsor | Republican | Senate | 32 |
“Support” is shown only as formal sponsorship recorded by the legislature. Roll-call votes are available on the official bill page.
Recent official actions
- Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 579, Statutes of 2026.
- Approved by the Governor.
- Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3:30 p.m.
- Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 74. Noes 1. Page 6781.).
- In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending.
- Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 39. Noes 0.).
- Read second time. Ordered to third reading.
- Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading.
- Ordered to third reading.
- From Consent Calendar.
- Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar.
- From committee: Be ordered to second reading file pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8 and ordered to Consent Calendar.