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+---
+type: "Bill"
+title: "Shelter crisis: emergency bridge housing communities."
+description: "Existing law authorizes a governing body of a political subdivision, as defined, to declare a shelter crisis if the governing body makes a specified finding. Existing law authorizes a political subdivision to allow persons unable to obtain housing to occupy designated public facilities, as defined, during the period of a shelter crisis. Existing law provides that certain state and local laws, regulations, and ordinances are suspended during a shelter crisis, to the extent that strict compliance would in any way prevent, hinder, or delay the mitigation of the effects of the shelter crisis."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
+legislature: "California Legislature"
+session: "20152016"
+identifier: "AB 2176"
+citation: "California AB 2176 (20152016)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["Shelter crisis: emergency bridge housing communities."]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Campos"]
+version_count: 10
+action_count: 28
+vote_count: 6
+first_action: "2016-02-18"
+last_action: "2016-09-27"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/dcc7b56a-b1b5-4d74-8665-399d7bca21f8"
+source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB2176"
+source_hash: "954dfaa8bbf80458bd2b21f2d80ad136ec2d8272559d4b631ffdcdfe433bb833"
+vintage: "2026-07-01"
+source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
+retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
+confidence: "reported"
+tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-ca"]
+---
+
+# California AB 2176 (20152016) — Shelter crisis: emergency bridge housing communities.
+
+Existing law authorizes a governing body of a political subdivision, as defined, to declare a shelter crisis if the governing body makes a specified finding. Existing law authorizes a political subdivision to allow persons unable to obtain housing to occupy designated public facilities, as defined, during the period of a shelter crisis. Existing law provides that certain state and local laws, regulations, and ordinances are suspended during a shelter crisis, to the extent that strict compliance would in any way prevent, hinder, or delay the mitigation of the effects of the shelter crisis.
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **02/18/16 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB2176&version=20150AB217699INT)
+2. **04/19/16 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB2176&version=20150AB217698AMD)
+3. **04/28/16 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB2176&version=20150AB217697AMD)
+4. **06/16/16 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB2176&version=20150AB217696AMD)
+5. **08/02/16 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB2176&version=20150AB217695AMD)
+6. **08/03/16 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB2176&version=20150AB217694AMD)
+7. **08/19/16 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB2176&version=20150AB217693AMD)
+8. **09/27/16 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB2176&version=20150AB217691CHP)
+9. **AB2176** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB2176)
+10. **08/31/16 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB2176&version=20150AB217692ENR)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Do pass as amended. — **7–0** (pass) · lower
+- 3rd Reading AB2176 Campos By Wieckowski — **39–0** (pass) · upper
+- AB 2176 CAMPOS Concurrence in Senate Amendments — **79–0** (pass) · lower
+- Do pass as amended — **7–0** (pass) · upper
+- AB 2176 CAMPOS Assembly Third Reading — **77–0** (pass) · lower
+- Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Judiciary] — **10–0** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Campos — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2016-02-18** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
+- **2016-02-19** From printer. May be heard in committee March 20.
+- **2016-02-29** Referred to Com. on H. & C.D. `referral-committee`
+- **2016-04-19** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on H. & C.D. Read second time and amended. `reading-2, amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1`
+- **2016-04-20** Re-referred to Com. on H. & C.D. `referral-committee`
+- **2016-04-27** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (April 27). `amendment-introduction, committee-passage, amendment-passage`
+- **2016-04-28** Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading. `amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1`
+- **2016-05-02** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
+- **2016-05-12** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 77. Noes 0. Page 4770.) `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
+- **2016-05-12** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
+- **2016-05-19** Referred to Coms. on T. & H. and JUD. `referral-committee`
+- **2016-06-15** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on JUD. (Ayes 10. Noes 0.) (June 14). `amendment-introduction, committee-passage, amendment-passage`
+- **2016-06-16** Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on JUD. `referral-committee, reading-2, amendment-passage, reading-1`
+- **2016-08-01** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (June 28). `amendment-introduction, committee-passage, amendment-passage`
+- **2016-08-02** Read second time and amended. Ordered to third reading. `amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1`
+- **2016-08-03** Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. `reading-3, amendment-passage, reading-1`
+- **2016-08-04** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
+- **2016-08-04** Re-referred to Com. on APPR. pursuant to Joint Rule 10.5. `referral-committee`
+- **2016-08-11** From committee: Be placed on second reading file pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8. `committee-passage`
+- **2016-08-15** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
+- **2016-08-19** Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. `reading-3, amendment-passage, reading-1`
+- **2016-08-22** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
+- **2016-08-24** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 39. Noes 0. Page 5369.). `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
+- **2016-08-26** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after August 28 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
+- **2016-08-30** Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 79. Noes 0. Page 6453.). `committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage`
+- **2016-09-09** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 2:30 p.m.
+- **2016-09-27** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
+- **2016-09-27** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 691, Statutes of 2016.
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/dcc7b56a-b1b5-4d74-8665-399d7bca21f8`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).
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