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Bill	Shelter crisis declarations.	Existing law authorizes a governing body of a political subdivision, as those terms are defined, to declare a shelter crisis if the governing body makes a specified finding. Upon declaration of a shelter crisis, existing law, among other things, suspends certain state and local laws, regulations, and ordinances, including those prescribing standards of housing, health, or safety, to the extent that strict compliance would prevent, hinder, or delay the mitigation of the effects of the shelter crisis and allows a city, county, or city and county, in lieu of compliance, to adopt by ordinance reasonable local standards and procedures for the design, site development, and operation of homeless shelters and the structures and facilities therein.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20192020	AB 2553	California AB 2553 (20192020)	bill	Shelter crisis declarations.	enacted	Ting	9	29	8	2020-02-19	2020-09-25	openstates	ocd-bill/69650d9a-2c42-4a2a-b8b2-a4dddf886df3	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB2553	ab598cc00247010137f98aa986db8b629b74bdf1f46a8d92906ffa3bcf194e33	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 2553 (20192020) — Shelter crisis declarations.

Existing law authorizes a governing body of a political subdivision, as those terms are defined, to declare a shelter crisis if the governing body makes a specified finding. Upon declaration of a shelter crisis, existing law, among other things, suspends certain state and local laws, regulations, and ordinances, including those prescribing standards of housing, health, or safety, to the extent that strict compliance would prevent, hinder, or delay the mitigation of the effects of the shelter crisis and allows a city, county, or city and county, in lieu of compliance, to adopt by ordinance reasonable local standards and procedures for the design, site development, and operation of homeless shelters and the structures and facilities therein.

Version chain

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

1. 02/19/20 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 03/09/20 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 05/12/20 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
4. 05/22/20 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
5. 07/14/20 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
6. 08/21/20 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
7. 09/25/20 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
8. AB2553 (committee substitute) — source
9. 09/01/20 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do pass as amended, and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with recommendation: To Consent Calendar — 8–0 (pass) · lower
• AB 2553 Ting Assembly Third Reading — 78–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with the recommendation: To Consent Calendar — 11–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• AB 2553 Ting Concurrence - Urgency Added — 75–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass. — 18–0 (pass) · lower
• Placed on suspense file — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• 3rd Reading AB2553 Ting et al. By Wiener Urgency Clause — 30–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Ting — primary (person)
• Berman — author (person)
• McCarty — coauthor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2020-02-19 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2020-02-20 From printer. May be heard in committee March 21.
• 2020-03-02 Referred to Com. on NAT. RES. referral-committee
• 2020-03-09 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on NAT. RES. Read second time and amended. reading-1, reading-2, amendment-passage, amendment-introduction
• 2020-03-10 Re-referred to Com. on NAT. RES. referral-committee
• 2020-05-07 Re-referred to Com. on H. & C.D. pursuant to Assembly Rule 96. referral-committee
• 2020-05-12 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
• 2020-05-13 Re-referred to Com. on H. & C.D. referral-committee
• 2020-05-21 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 8. Noes 0.) (May 20). amendment-passage, committee-passage, amendment-introduction
• 2020-05-22 Read second time and amended. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
• 2020-05-26 Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee
• 2020-06-02 In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to APPR. suspense file. referral-committee
• 2020-06-03 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 18. Noes 0.) (June 3). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2020-06-04 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2020-06-10 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 78. Noes 0. Page 4768.) passage, reading-3, reading-1
• 2020-06-11 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2020-07-01 Referred to Com. on HOUSING. referral-committee
• 2020-07-14 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
• 2020-08-07 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 11. Noes 0.) (August 6). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2020-08-13 In committee: Referred to APPR. suspense file. referral-committee
• 2020-08-21 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (August 20). amendment-passage, committee-passage, amendment-introduction
• 2020-08-21 Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
• 2020-08-24 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2020-08-27 Read third time. Urgency clause adopted. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 30. Noes 0. Page 4359.). passage, reading-3, reading-1
• 2020-08-27 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending.
• 2020-08-30 Urgency clause adopted. Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 75. Noes 0. Page 5342.). amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2020-09-11 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m.
• 2020-09-25 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2020-09-25 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 147, Statutes of 2020.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/69650d9a-2c42-4a2a-b8b2-a4dddf886df3. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).