BOMA California End of Legislature 2026 Update

The 2026 legislative session ended last week, and BOMA California is releasing a report on what it means for the office, retail, and industrial real estate industry, designed as an easy-to-print handout capturing the breadth of the work BOMA California and its eight local associations do to advance and protect the commercial real estate industry.

Three permit-streamlining bills reached the Governor's desk at once. AB 2418, sponsored by BOMA CA, sets plan-check deadlines for nonresidential projects. AB 1693 does the same for retail tenant improvements. AB 1621 caps plan checks at two rounds for housing and mixed-use projects. Each one attacks the months between a signed lease and an open door.

Defense took even more work and coordination across the chapters. A last-minute gut-and-amend to end the 2026 Legislative Session, SB 716, targeted commercial property and business operations under the guise of addressing cold-storage fires. BOMA California and our partners helped defeat it in Assembly Local Government, but proponents revived it through rule waivers. It survived a lengthy floor fight on the final day of session and reached the Governor's desk.

That work extended well beyond the Capitol. BOMA California pushed back with local chapters against multiple proposed air district warehouse Indirect Source Rules, engaged on General Plan changes in multiple cities that would have harmed industrial-land zoning, and organized a broad coalition around the Energy Commission's proposed statewide Building Performance Standards, bringing real estate, business, goods movement and employer organizations behind a common position