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AB 956 — Accessory dwelling units: ministerial approval: single-family dwellings.

Congress · introduced 2025-03-17

Latest action: — Senate

Sponsors

Action timeline

  1. · 1 — Read first time. To print.
  2. · 3 — From printer. May be heard in committee March 23.
  3. · 5 — From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on H. & C.D. Read second time and amended.
  4. · 30 — Re-referred to Com. on H. & C.D.
  5. · 143 — In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
  6. · 999 — (Pending re-refer to Com. on L. GOV.)
  7. · 6 — From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on L. GOV. (Ayes 11. Noes 0.) (April 24). Re-referred to Com. on L. GOV.
  8. · 6 — From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.) (April 30). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
  9. · 8 — From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 12. Noes 2.) (May 14).
  10. · 23 — Read second time. Ordered to third reading.
  11. · 41 — Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 58. Noes 4. Page 1654.)
  12. · 112 — In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment.
  13. · 504 — Referred to Coms. on HOUSING and L. GOV.
  14. · 143 — In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.

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Who matters

Members ranked by combined influence on this bill: role (sponsor 5 / cosponsor 1), capped speech count from the Congressional Record, and recorded-vote engagement.

#MemberRoleSpeechesVotedScore
1Quirk-Silva, Sharon (D, state_lower CA-67)sponsor0—5
2Carrillo, Juan (D, state_lower CA-39)cosponsor0—1
3Wicks, Buffy (D, state_lower CA-14)cosponsor0—1

Predicted vote

Aggregated from: actual roll-call votes (when present) → sponsor → cosponsor → party median (predicts YES when ≥25% of the caucus sponsored/cosponsored). Each row labels its confidence tier so you can see why a position was predicted.

0 predicted yes (0%) · 543 predicted no (100%) · 0 unknown (0%)

By party: · R: 0 yes / 277 no · D: 0 yes / 263 no · I: 0 yes / 3 no

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