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Bill	Emergency and Transitional Housing Act of 2019.	(1) The Planning and Zoning Law requires a city or county to adopt a general plan for land use development within its boundaries that includes, among other things, a housing element. Existing law requires the housing element to contain specified information and analysis, including an assessment of housing needs and an inventory of resources and constraints relevant to the meeting of those needs, including the identification of a zone or zones where emergency shelters are allowed as a permitted use without a conditional use or other discretionary permit. Existing law authorizes a local government to impose only those development and management standards that apply to residential or commercial development within the same zone, however, a local government may impose specified objective standards, including standards for off-street parking based on demonstrated need, as specified.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20192020	AB 139	California AB 139 (20192020)	bill	Emergency and Transitional Housing Act of 2019.	enacted	Quirk-Silva	9	29	8	2018-12-11	2019-09-26	openstates	ocd-bill/80ed09cf-bc47-41ee-9e60-49a7bc5f9087	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB139	641a5ff00fa09bec92d57be62a5bb9c5177abbd9a3f0d814896d89cf17925a51	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 139 (20192020) — Emergency and Transitional Housing Act of 2019.

(1) The Planning and Zoning Law requires a city or county to adopt a general plan for land use development within its boundaries that includes, among other things, a housing element. Existing law requires the housing element to contain specified information and analysis, including an assessment of housing needs and an inventory of resources and constraints relevant to the meeting of those needs, including the identification of a zone or zones where emergency shelters are allowed as a permitted use without a conditional use or other discretionary permit. Existing law authorizes a local government to impose only those development and management standards that apply to residential or commercial development within the same zone, however, a local government may impose specified objective standards, including standards for off-street parking based on demonstrated need, as specified.

Version chain

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

1. 12/11/18 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 04/10/19 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 06/17/19 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
4. 07/05/19 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
5. 08/30/19 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
6. 09/06/19 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
7. 09/26/19 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
8. AB139 (committee substitute) — source
9. 09/16/19 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• AB 139 Quirk-Silva Assembly Third Reading — 77–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 11–0 (pass) · upper
• Placed on suspense file — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass. — 18–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• 3rd Reading AB139 Quirk-Silva By Beall — 40–0 (pass) · upper
• AB 139 Quirk-Silva Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 79–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 8–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Quirk-Silva — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2018-12-11 Introduced. To print. introduction
• 2018-12-12 From printer. May be heard in committee January 11.
• 2019-01-07 Read first time. reading-1
• 2019-01-24 Referred to Com. on H. & C.D. referral-committee
• 2019-04-10 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on H. & C.D. Read second time and amended. reading-1, reading-2, amendment-passage, amendment-introduction
• 2019-04-11 Re-referred to Com. on H. & C.D. referral-committee
• 2019-04-25 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 8. Noes 0.) (April 24). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2019-05-08 In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to APPR. suspense file. referral-committee
• 2019-05-16 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 18. Noes 0.) (May 16). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2019-05-20 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2019-05-23 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 77. Noes 0. Page 1857.) passage, reading-3, reading-1
• 2019-05-24 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2019-06-06 Referred to Com. on HOUSING. referral-committee
• 2019-06-17 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on HOUSING. reading-1, reading-2, amendment-passage, referral-committee, amendment-introduction
• 2019-07-03 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 11. Noes 0.) (July 2). amendment-passage, committee-passage, amendment-introduction
• 2019-07-05 Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. reading-1, reading-2, amendment-passage, referral-committee
• 2019-08-12 In committee: Referred to APPR. suspense file. referral-committee
• 2019-08-30 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (August 30). amendment-passage, committee-passage, amendment-introduction
• 2019-08-30 Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
• 2019-09-03 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2019-09-06 Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-3, reading-1
• 2019-09-09 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2019-09-10 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 40. Noes 0. Page 2738.). passage, reading-3, reading-1
• 2019-09-10 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after September 12 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
• 2019-09-11 Assembly Rule 77 suspended. (Page 3370.)
• 2019-09-11 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 79. Noes 0. Page 3394.). amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2019-09-23 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3:30 p.m.
• 2019-09-26 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2019-09-26 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 335, Statutes of 2019.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/80ed09cf-bc47-41ee-9e60-49a7bc5f9087. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).