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Bill	Discrimination: housing: source of income.	Existing law, the California Fair Employment and Housing Act, prohibits housing discrimination, including discrimination through public or private land use practices, decisions, or authorizations, based on specified personal characteristics, including source of income. Existing law defines the term "source of income" for purposes of the provisions relating to discrimination in housing accommodations described above, to mean lawful, verifiable income paid directly to a tenant or paid to a representative of a tenant. Existing law specifies that for the purposes of this definition, a landlord is not considered a representative of a tenant.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20192020	SB 329	California SB 329 (20192020)	bill	Discrimination: housing: source of income.	enacted	Mitchell	6	34	9	2019-02-15	2019-10-08	openstates	ocd-bill/07f3dab4-00b2-4462-a445-70ead03ae1e4	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB329	aff93b8315ee06261e79b77cf3a86fcb21f7ff49017d0e28491aa1cb3989e013	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California SB 329 (20192020) — Discrimination: housing: source of income.

Existing law, the California Fair Employment and Housing Act, prohibits housing discrimination, including discrimination through public or private land use practices, decisions, or authorizations, based on specified personal characteristics, including source of income. Existing law defines the term "source of income" for purposes of the provisions relating to discrimination in housing accommodations described above, to mean lawful, verifiable income paid directly to a tenant or paid to a representative of a tenant. Existing law specifies that for the purposes of this definition, a landlord is not considered a representative of a tenant.

Version chain

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

1. 02/15/19 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 05/17/19 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
3. 09/06/19 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
4. 10/08/19 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
5. SB329 (committee substitute) — source
6. 09/13/19 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do pass. — 11–5 (pass) · lower
• Unfinished Business SB329 Mitchell et al. Concurrence — 25–12 (pass) · upper
• SB 329 Mitchell Senate Third Reading By Gloria — 46–21 (pass) · lower
• Placed on suspense file — 6–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Judiciary] — 5–1 (pass) · lower
• 3rd Reading SB329 Mitchell et al. — 24–11 (pass) · upper
• Do pass. — 7–3 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended — 4–2 (pass) · upper
• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 7–2 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Mitchell — primary (person)
• Atkins — coauthor (person)
• Bloom — principal coauthor (person)
• Bonta — coauthor (person)
• Chiu — coauthor (person)
• Grayson — coauthor (person)
• Wiener — principal coauthor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2019-02-15 Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. introduction, reading-1
• 2019-02-19 From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 21.
• 2019-02-28 Referred to Coms. on JUD. and APPR. referral-committee
• 2019-03-12 Set for hearing March 26.
• 2019-03-18 March 26 set for first hearing canceled at the request of author.
• 2019-03-28 Set for hearing April 23.
• 2019-04-17 April 23 set for second hearing canceled at the request of author.
• 2019-04-23 Set for hearing April 30.
• 2019-05-01 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 7. Noes 2. Page 906.) (April 30). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2019-05-03 Set for hearing May 13.
• 2019-05-13 May 13 hearing: Placed on APPR. suspense file.
• 2019-05-14 Set for hearing May 16.
• 2019-05-17 From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 4. Noes 2. Page 1096.) (May 16). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, amendment-passage
• 2019-05-17 Read second time and amended. Ordered to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
• 2019-05-20 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2019-05-23 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 24. Noes 11. Page 1269.) Ordered to the Assembly. passage, reading-3, reading-1
• 2019-05-24 In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. reading-1
• 2019-06-06 Referred to Coms. on H. & C.D. and JUD. referral-committee
• 2019-06-20 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on JUD. (Ayes 5. Noes 1.) (June 19). Re-referred to Com. on JUD. committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2019-06-20 Coauthors revised.
• 2019-06-25 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 7. Noes 3.) (June 25). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2019-06-26 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2019-06-27 Re-referred to Com. on APPR. pursuant to Assembly Rule 97. referral-committee
• 2019-07-10 July 10 set for first hearing. Placed on APPR. suspense file.
• 2019-08-30 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 11. Noes 5.) (August 30). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2019-09-03 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2019-09-06 Read third time and amended. amendment-passage, reading-3, reading-1
• 2019-09-06 Ordered to third reading.
• 2019-09-10 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 46. Noes 21. Page 3317.) Ordered to the Senate. passage, reading-3, reading-1
• 2019-09-10 In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
• 2019-09-11 Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 25. Noes 12. Page 2849.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling. amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2019-09-19 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m.
• 2019-10-08 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2019-10-08 Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 600, Statutes of 2019.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/07f3dab4-00b2-4462-a445-70ead03ae1e4. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).