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Bill	Homeless shelters: safety regulations.	The State Housing Law, among other things, requires the Department of Housing and Community Development to adopt, amend, or repeal rules and regulations for the protection of the health, safety, and general welfare of the occupant and the public relating to specified residential structures, as provided, which apply throughout the state. Existing law requires the housing or building department of every city or county, or the health department if there is no building department, to enforce within its jurisdiction the provisions of the State Housing Law, building standards, and the other rules and regulations adopted by the department pertaining to the maintenance, sanitation, ventilation, use, or occupancy of apartment houses, hotels, or dwellings. A violation of the State Housing Law, or of the building standards or rules and regulations adopted pursuant to that law, is a misdemeanor.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20212022	AB 362	California AB 362 (20212022)	bill	Homeless shelters: safety regulations.	enacted	Quirk-Silva	10	30	8	2021-02-01	2021-09-29	openstates	ocd-bill/641b70f3-082f-40e4-aba0-290974239abc	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB362	d1bd85a9821a2542c8de6bdce8217d54b7e7dd59cb6ab37840e1be0c3ce709f5	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 362 (20212022) — Homeless shelters: safety regulations.

The State Housing Law, among other things, requires the Department of Housing and Community Development to adopt, amend, or repeal rules and regulations for the protection of the health, safety, and general welfare of the occupant and the public relating to specified residential structures, as provided, which apply throughout the state. Existing law requires the housing or building department of every city or county, or the health department if there is no building department, to enforce within its jurisdiction the provisions of the State Housing Law, building standards, and the other rules and regulations adopted by the department pertaining to the maintenance, sanitation, ventilation, use, or occupancy of apartment houses, hotels, or dwellings. A violation of the State Housing Law, or of the building standards or rules and regulations adopted pursuant to that law, is a misdemeanor.

Version chain

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

1. 02/01/21 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 03/18/21 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 04/20/21 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
4. 05/04/21 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
5. 05/24/21 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
6. 06/30/21 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
7. 08/26/21 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
8. 09/29/21 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
9. AB362 (committee substitute) — source
10. 09/15/21 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 6–2 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended — 5–2 (pass) · upper
• AB 362 Quirk-Silva Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 60–16 (pass) · lower
• 3rd Reading AB362 Quirk-Silva By Wieckowski — 29–9 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended. — 12–3 (pass) · lower
• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• AB 362 Quirk-Silva Assembly Third Reading — 60–16 (pass) · lower
• Placed on suspense file — 7–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Quirk-Silva — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2021-02-01 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2021-02-02 From printer. May be heard in committee March 4.
• 2021-03-18 Referred to Com. on H. & C.D. referral-committee
• 2021-03-18 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on H. & C.D. Read second time and amended. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
• 2021-03-22 Re-referred to Com. on H. & C.D. referral-committee
• 2021-04-20 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on H. & C.D. Read second time and amended. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
• 2021-04-21 Re-referred to Com. on H. & C.D. referral-committee
• 2021-05-03 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 6. Noes 2.) (April 29). amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2021-05-04 Read second time and amended. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
• 2021-05-05 Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee
• 2021-05-19 In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to APPR. suspense file. referral-committee
• 2021-05-20 Joint Rule 62(a), file notice suspended. (Page 1460.)
• 2021-05-20 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 12. Noes 3.) (May 20). amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage
• 2021-05-24 Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
• 2021-05-25 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2021-06-01 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 60. Noes 16. Page 1755.) passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2021-06-02 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2021-06-09 Referred to Com. on HOUSING. referral-committee
• 2021-06-30 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on HOUSING. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee
• 2021-07-08 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (July 8). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2021-08-16 In committee: Referred to suspense file. referral-committee
• 2021-08-26 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 5. Noes 2.) (August 26). amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage
• 2021-08-26 Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
• 2021-08-30 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2021-09-09 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 29. Noes 9. Page 2591.). passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2021-09-09 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending.
• 2021-09-10 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 60. Noes 16. Page 3113.). amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2021-09-22 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 2 p.m.
• 2021-09-29 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2021-09-29 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 395, Statutes of 2021. became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/641b70f3-082f-40e4-aba0-290974239abc. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).