2025 Policy Priorities
This is a PAST agenda.
2025 Sponsored Bills
AB 804 (Wicks) Medi-Cal Housing Supportive Services.
Would make Medi-Cal housing supportive services a statewide benefit to allow California to take advantage of federal funding and to improve service delivery and accessibility. [Died in Assembly Appropriations]
AB 874 (Avila-Farias) Impact Fee Deferral Repayment Program.
Would reduce the cost of building affordable housing by requiring non-school local agencies to allow qualified affordable rental and ownership housing projects to repay development impact fees over up to 55 years with a low rate of interest on the remaining balance.
AB 906 (M. González) Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing (AFFH).
Would strengthen AFFH requirements in the housing element process to promote integrated neighborhoods and ensure that local jurisdictions analyze key fair housing issues. [2-year bill]
AB 1229 (Schultz) Adult Reentry Grant Program.
Would restructure the existing Adult Reentry Grant program and move it to the Housing and Community Development department to better reduce homelessness among the parole population. (RUN Priority) [2-year bill]
AB 1244 (Wicks) Vehicle Miles Traveled (VMT) Mitigation for Affordable Housing.
Creates a statewide mechanism to collect and disburse VMT mitigation dollars for affordable infill housing near transit. [Passed via AB 130 (housing trailer bill)]
AB 1339 (M. González) Insurance Data Transparency.
Would grant the California Department of Insurance the authority to request and analyze key data about rate increases and changes to coverage for affordable housing to inform future policymaking. [Signed]
High Priority Support Bills
AB 736 (Wicks) Affordable Housing Bond Act of 2026
Would place a $10 billion affordable housing bond on the statewide ballot. [2-year bill]
SB 417 (Cabaldon) Affordable Housing Bond Act of 2026
Would place a $10 billion affordable housing bond on the statewide ballot. [2-year bill]
Support
AB 6 (Ward) Residential developments: building standards: review. [Dead]
AB 37 (Elhawary) Workforce development: mental health service providers: homelessness. [2-year bill]
AB 282 (Pellerin) Discrimination: housing: source of income. [2-year bill]
AB 301 (Schiavo) Planning and zoning: housing development projects: postentitlement phase permits: state departments. [Signed]
AB 306 (Schulz) Building regulations: state building standards. [Passed via AB130 (housing trailer bill)]
AB 348 (Krell) Full-service partnerships. [Signed]
AB 380 (Gonzalez) Price gouging. [Dead]
AB 480 (Quirk-Silva) Personal Income Tax Law: Corporation Tax Law: insurance tax law: low-income housing tax credit: [Signed]
AB 543 (González) Medi-Cal: street medicine. [Signed]
AB 628 (McKinnor) Hiring of real property: dwellings: untenantability. [Previously supported, did not support on Governor’s desk due to Senate amendments. Signed]
AB 660 (Wilson) Planning and Zoning Law: postentitlement phase permits. [Dead]
AB 670 (Quirk-Silva) Planning and zoning: housing element: converted affordable housing units. [Signed]
AB 678 (Lee) Interagency Council on Homelessness. [Signed]
AB 712 (Wicks) Housing reform laws: enforcement actions: fines and penalties. [Signed]
AB 722 (Avila-Farias) Reentry Housing and Workforce Development Program. [Dead]
AB 726 (Avila-Farias) Planning and zoning: annual report: rehabilitated units [Signed]
AB 750 (Quirk-Silva) Homeless shelters: safety regulations. [Signed]
AB 801 (Bonta) Financial institutions: California Community Reinvestment Act.. [2-year bill]
AB 820 (Pellerin) Homelessness: transport. [2-year bill]
AB 913 (C. Rodriguez) Housing programs: financing. [Dead]
AB 1157 (Haney) Tenancy: just cause termination: rent increases. [2-year bill]
AB 1165 (Gipson) California Housing Justice Act of 2025. [2-year bill]
AB 1248 (Haney) Hiring of real property: fees and charges. [2-year bill]
AB 1276 (Carillo) Housing developments: ordinances, policies, and standards. [Dead]
AB 1294 (Haney) Planning and zoning: housing development: standardized application form. [2-year bill]
AB 1299 (Bryan) Gives cities and jurisdictions express authority to reduce or waive parking penalties based on extenuating circumstances, including financial hardship and homelessness. (Position taken June 13) [Signed]
AB 1404 (Ortega) Electrical corporations: connections: affordable housing projects. [2-year bill]
SB 21 (Durazo) Single-room occupancy units: demolition and replacement: housing assistance programs: eligibility for homeless individuals and families. [Signed]
SB 33 (Cortese) Homeless pupils: California Success, Opportunity, and Academic Resilience (SOAR) Guaranteed Income Program. [2-year bill]
SB 52 (Perez) Housing rental rates and occupancy levels: algorithmic devices. [Dead]
SB 340 (Laird) General plans: housing element: emergency shelter. [Signed]
SB 384 (Wahab) Preventing Algorithmic Price Fixing Act: prohibition on price-fixing algorithm use. [Dead]
SB 484 (Laird) Coastal resources: coastal development permits: infill area categorical exclusion. [Signed]
SB 634 (Perez) Homelessness: civil and criminal penalties. [Signed]
SB 685 (Cortese) California State University: financial aid for homeless students: pilot program. [2-year bill]
SB 686 (Reyes) Housing programs: financing. [Passed via AB 130 (housing trailer bill)]
SB 733 (Wahab) Planning and zoning: annual progress report: Low Barrier Navigation Centers.
SB 786 (Arreguin) Planning and zoning: general plan: judicial challenges. [Signed]
AB 841 (Rubio) Limits ICE officers from entering homeless shelters unless they meet defined criteria. [2-year bill]
Oppose
AB 20 (DeMaio) Homelessness: People First Housing Act of 2025. [2-year bill]
AB 538 (Berman) Public works: payroll records. [Signed]
AB 897 (DeMaio) Trespassing: removal of trespassers on residential property. [2-year bill]
AB 963 (Petrie-Norris) Public works: prevailing wages: access to records. [Vetoed]
AB 1432 (Hoover) Homelessness Accountability, Recovery, and Treatment Act. [2-year bill]
SB 823 (Stern) Mental health: the CARE Act. [2-year bill]
Opposed Unless Amended
AB 255 (Haney) The Supportive-Recovery Residence Program. [Opposition removed) – Vetoed]
AB 630 (Gonzalez) Abandoned recreational vehicles. [Signed}
SB 79 (Wiener) Local government land: public transit use: housing development: transit-oriented development. [Opposition removed – Signed]
SB 692 (Arreguin) Local government land: public transit use: housing development: transit-oriented development.
Support Unless Amended
SB 16 (Blakespear) Homeless Housing, Assistance, and Prevention program: housing element: unsheltered and chronic homelessness: assessment and financing plan.
Neutral
AB 249 (Ramos) Housing: Homeless Housing, Assistance, and Prevention program: youth-specific processes and coordinated entry systems.
ACA-4 (Jackson) Homelessness and affordable housing.
Concerns
SB 677 (Wiener) Housing development: streamlined approvals. [2-year bill]