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Bill	Shelter crises: fire and life safety standards.	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 to the extent that strict compliance would prevent, hinder, or delay the mitigation of the effects of the shelter crisis.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20192020	AB 2960	California AB 2960 (20192020)	bill	Shelter crises: fire and life safety standards.	enacted	Gipson	6	25	6	2020-02-21	2020-09-25	openstates	ocd-bill/52e67545-3650-49bd-a75d-438b9a670df4	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB2960	c17fc6aba34f71920015163ac247b81df22fcf12b678624aee2326c0545dd040	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 2960 (20192020) — Shelter crises: fire and life safety standards.

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 to the extent that strict compliance would 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. 02/21/20 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 05/22/20 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 07/30/20 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
4. 09/25/20 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
5. AB2960 (committee substitute) — source
6. 09/01/20 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with the recommendation: To Consent Calendar — 11–0 (pass) · upper
• AB 2960 Gipson Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 74–0 (pass) · lower
• AB 2960 Gipson Assembly Third Reading — 78–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass. — 18–0 (pass) · lower
• 3rd Reading AB2960 Gipson et al. By Caballero — 30–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 8–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Gipson — primary (person)
• Carrillo — coauthor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2020-02-21 Introduced. To print. introduction
• 2020-02-22 From printer. May be heard in committee March 23.
• 2020-02-24 Read first time. reading-1
• 2020-03-05 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. (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
• 2020-06-11 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 78. Noes 0. Page 4828.) 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
• 2020-07-30 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 From committee: Be ordered to second reading file pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8 and ordered to Consent Calendar. committee-passage, reading-2
• 2020-08-14 Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. reading-1, reading-2
• 2020-08-24 From Consent Calendar.
• 2020-08-24 Ordered to third reading.
• 2020-08-27 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 30. Noes 0. Page 4355.). passage, reading-3, reading-1
• 2020-08-27 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending.
• 2020-08-30 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 74. Noes 0. Page 5344.). 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 148, Statutes of 2020.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/52e67545-3650-49bd-a75d-438b9a670df4. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).