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Bill	Housing: emergency housing and assistance funding.	Existing law requires the Department of Housing and Community Development to administer the Emergency Housing and Assistance Program. Under the program, moneys from the continuously appropriated Emergency Housing and Assistance Fund are available for the purposes of providing shelter, as specified, to homeless persons at as low a cost and as quickly as possible, without compromising the health and safety of shelter occupants, to encourage the move of homeless persons from shelters to a self-supporting environment as soon as possible, to encourage provision of services for as many persons at risk of homelessness as possible, to encourage compatible and effective funding of homeless services, and to encourage coordination among public agencies that fund or provide services to homeless individuals, as well as agencies that discharge people from their institutions.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20132014	AB 873	California AB 873 (20132014)	bill appropriation	Housing: emergency housing and assistance funding.	enacted	Chau	9	32	9	2013-02-22	2013-10-02	openstates	ocd-bill/ec3911fd-41ac-42c6-a302-a4b5d32ef592	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB873	eb5fd48cab6d9784cf09d5fc901c7d71f8940f60eeecf9da0e78647d544cd197	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 873 (20132014) — Housing: emergency housing and assistance funding.

Existing law requires the Department of Housing and Community Development to administer the Emergency Housing and Assistance Program. Under the program, moneys from the continuously appropriated Emergency Housing and Assistance Fund are available for the purposes of providing shelter, as specified, to homeless persons at as low a cost and as quickly as possible, without compromising the health and safety of shelter occupants, to encourage the move of homeless persons from shelters to a self-supporting environment as soon as possible, to encourage provision of services for as many persons at risk of homelessness as possible, to encourage compatible and effective funding of homeless services, and to encourage coordination among public agencies that fund or provide services to homeless individuals, as well as agencies that discharge people from their institutions.

Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. 02/22/13 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 03/21/13 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 07/02/13 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
4. 08/13/13 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
5. 09/03/13 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
6. 09/06/13 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
7. 10/02/13 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
8. AB873 (committee substitute) — source
9. 09/18/13 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do pass, to Consent Calendar. — 8–0 (pass) · lower
• Special Consent #10 AB873 Chau By Torres — 39–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass, but re-refer to the Committee on Appropriations. — 10–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on Local Government to Consent Calendar. — 7–0 (pass) · lower
• Placed on Appropriations Suspense file. — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• amendments be concurred in. — 6–0 (pass) · lower
• AB 873 TORRES Consent Calendar Second Day — 70–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended. — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• AB 873 CHAU Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 76–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Chau — primary (person)
• Torres — coauthor (person)

Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

• 2013-02-22 Introduced. To print. introduction
• 2013-02-24 From printer. May be heard in committee March 26.
• 2013-02-25 Read first time. reading-1
• 2013-03-21 Referred to Coms. on H. & C.D. and L. GOV. referral-committee
• 2013-03-21 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on H. & C.D. Read second time and amended. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1
• 2013-04-01 Re-referred to Com. on H. & C.D. referral-committee
• 2013-04-17 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on L. GOV. with recommendation: to consent calendar. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (April 17). Re-referred to Com. on L. GOV. committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee, committee-passage
• 2013-05-09 From committee: Do pass. To consent calendar. (Ayes 8. Noes 0.) (May 8). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2013-05-13 Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar. reading-2, reading-1
• 2013-05-16 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 70. Noes 0. Page 1476.) reading-3, reading-1, passage
• 2013-05-16 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2013-05-29 Referred to Com. on T. & H. referral-committee
• 2013-07-02 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on T. & H. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1, referral-committee
• 2013-07-09 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 10. Noes 0.) (July 9). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee, committee-passage
• 2013-08-08 In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
• 2013-08-13 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on APPR. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1, referral-committee
• 2013-08-19 In committee: Placed on APPR. suspense file.
• 2013-09-03 From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (August 30). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, amendment-passage
• 2013-09-03 Read second time and amended. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1, amendment-passage
• 2013-09-06 Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. reading-3, reading-1, amendment-passage
• 2013-09-09 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2013-09-10 Ordered to special consent calendar.
• 2013-09-12 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 39. Noes 0. Page 2402.). reading-3, reading-1, passage
• 2013-09-12 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending.
• 2013-09-12 Re-referred to Com. on H. & C.D. pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.2. referral-committee
• 2013-09-12 Joint Rule 62(a), file notice suspended. (Page 3337.)
• 2013-09-12 From committee: That the Senate amendments be concurred in. (Ayes 6. Noes 0.) (September 12). committee-passage
• 2013-09-12 Assembly Rule 63 suspended. (Page 3340.)
• 2013-09-12 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 76. Noes 0. Page 3340.). committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage
• 2013-09-26 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4:30 p.m.
• 2013-10-02 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2013-10-02 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 488, Statutes of 2013.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/ec3911fd-41ac-42c6-a302-a4b5d32ef592. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).