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Bill	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.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20152016	AB 2176	California AB 2176 (20152016)	bill	Shelter crisis: emergency bridge housing communities.	enacted	Campos	10	28	6	2016-02-18	2016-09-27	openstates	ocd-bill/dcc7b56a-b1b5-4d74-8665-399d7bca21f8	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB2176	954dfaa8bbf80458bd2b21f2d80ad136ec2d8272559d4b631ffdcdfe433bb833	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	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
2. 04/19/16 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 04/28/16 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
4. 06/16/16 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
5. 08/02/16 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
6. 08/03/16 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
7. 08/19/16 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
8. 09/27/16 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
9. AB2176 (committee substitute) — source
10. 08/31/16 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

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; origin ocd-bill/dcc7b56a-b1b5-4d74-8665-399d7bca21f8. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).