Land use: development project review.

New 90-day deadline exception added for the State Water Resources Control Board and California Regional Water Quality Control Boards when the approval sought is an individual waste discharge requirement or a certificate/statement required under the Federal Water Pollution Control Act or other federal water quality law. These agencies previously would have been subject to the 45-day deadline like all other responsible agencies.

Section 65951(b) no longer explicitly excludes the California Coastal Commission from the 45-day deadline. The exception is now handled through the restructured Section 65952, which lists specific state agencies (Coastal Commission, Bay Conservation and Development Commission, State Water Resources Control Board, Regional Water Quality Control Boards) that receive 90 days, with all other responsible agencies defaulting to 45 days.

Section 65952 was restructured from a format where the 45-day rule applied broadly with a separate 90-day exception for named agencies, to a format where the 45-day rule is the default and specific agencies are listed as receiving 90 days. The deemed-withdrawn provision moved from subdivision (c) to subdivision (d).

Header changed from Assembly Bill passage record (with clerk signatures and blank date fields) to the official chaptered format showing 'STATE OF CALIFORNIA AUTHENTICATED ELECTRONIC LEGAL MATERIAL' and 'CHAPTER 502' with the governor's approval date of October 10, 2025.

Page numbering changed from page 95 to page 94, and running headers changed from 'AB 1007' to 'Ch. 502' to reflect the official statutory compilation format.

Minor formatting correction: 'Article XIIIB' in the enrolled version was corrected to 'Article XIII B' in the chaptered version (Section 3, reimbursement provision).

Governor's signature line changed from blank to 'O', indicating the governor who approved the bill.

The document was reformatted from the official chaptered statute layout (with 'STATE OF CALIFORNIA AUTHENTICATED ELECTRONIC LEGAL MATERIAL' header and page numbers) to a web page display format including site navigation, bill metadata (version dates, vote information, fiscal committee designation), and a digest key section.

Removed 'as amended' from the legislative counsel digest reference, consistent with this now being the final enrolled text.

Added standard enrolled-bill formalities: Assembly passage date (September 12, 2025), Senate passage date (September 11, 2025), Chief Clerk and Secretary of the Senate signature blocks, and a Governor receipt block with blank date/time fields.

Removed line numbers throughout the bill text and renumbered pages from 96 to 95, reflecting standard enrolled-document formatting.

New Section 65952 amendment requires responsible agencies to approve or disapprove development projects within 180 days (whichever is longer: from lead agency approval or from when the responsible agency received and accepted a complete application).

For housing development projects with environmental impact reports, responsible agencies other than the California Coastal Commission must act within 45 days (reduced from the 90-day period that was initially proposed in the amendment markup).

When a lead agency's disapproval becomes final, all applications for that project filed with responsible agencies are automatically deemed withdrawn.

The original Section 65950 amendment was renumbered and contains only a nonsubstantive grammatical change ('is applicable' to 'applies').

A legislative finding declares the bill addresses a matter of statewide concern rather than a municipal affair, making it applicable to all cities including charter cities and overriding local home rule protections.

Coauthors Assembly Members Ward and Wicks were added to the bill.

Fiscal notes changed: state-mandated local program is now 'yes' (was 'no') and fiscal committee review is now 'yes' (was 'no'), reflecting that the new responsible agency deadlines impose costs on local governments. A no-reimbursement clause was added, stating local agencies can recover costs through service charges, fees, or assessments.