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Bill	Homelessness: Housing Trust Fund: housing projects.	Existing federal law requires the Secretary of the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development to establish a Housing Trust Fund to provide grants to states to increase the supply of rental housing for extremely low and very low income families, including homeless families, and home ownership for extremely low and very low income families. Existing federal law establishes regulations for the implementation of these grants.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20212022	AB 816	California AB 816 (20212022)	bill	Homelessness: Housing Trust Fund: housing projects.	enacted	Chiu	7	30	8	2021-02-16	2021-09-29	openstates	ocd-bill/a456ad2d-0dc5-4710-8927-4baae8a9c497	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB816	d2fc4b1168f252e33133988c5424da40258e97a7f50c6703ba71af0c8e6de1e2	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 816 (20212022) — Homelessness: Housing Trust Fund: housing projects.

Existing federal law requires the Secretary of the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development to establish a Housing Trust Fund to provide grants to states to increase the supply of rental housing for extremely low and very low income families, including homeless families, and home ownership for extremely low and very low income families. Existing federal law establishes regulations for the implementation of these grants.

Version chain

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

1. 02/16/21 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 05/04/21 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 06/23/21 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
4. 07/16/21 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
5. 09/29/21 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
6. AB816 (committee substitute) — source
7. 09/15/21 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 5–1 (pass) · lower
• With recommendation: That Senate amendments be concurred in. — 6–1 (pass) · lower
• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Human Services] — 6–2 (pass) · upper
• Do pass. — 12–3 (pass) · lower
• 3rd Reading AB816 Chiu et al. By Wiener — 32–7 (pass) · upper
• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 4–1 (pass) · upper
• AB 816 Chiu Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 62–14 (pass) · lower
• AB 816 Chiu Assembly Third Reading — 55–15 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Chiu — primary (person)
• Bloom — author (person)
• Bonta — author (person)
• Quirk-Silva — author (person)
• Santiago — author (person)
• Wicks — author (person)

Timeline

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

• 2021-02-16 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2021-02-17 From printer. May be heard in committee March 19.
• 2021-02-25 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 5. Noes 1.) (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
• 2021-05-12 In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to APPR. suspense file. referral-committee
• 2021-05-20 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 12. Noes 3.) (May 20). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2021-05-24 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2021-05-27 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 55. Noes 15. Page 1647.) passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2021-05-28 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2021-06-09 Referred to Coms. on HOUSING, HUMAN S. and JUD. referral-committee
• 2021-06-09 Action rescinded whereby the bill was referred to Com. on JUD. referral-committee
• 2021-06-23 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
• 2021-07-01 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on HUMAN S. (Ayes 6. Noes 2.) (July 1). Re-referred to Com. on HUMAN S. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2021-07-07 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 4. Noes 1.) (July 6). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2021-07-16 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on APPR. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee
• 2021-08-16 In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
• 2021-08-23 From committee: Be ordered to second reading pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8. committee-passage, reading-2
• 2021-08-24 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2021-08-30 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 32. Noes 7. Page 2229.). passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2021-08-31 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after September 2 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
• 2021-09-01 Assembly Rule 77 suspended. (Ayes 58. Noes 17. Page 2625.)
• 2021-09-01 Re-referred to Com. on H. & C.D. pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.2. referral-committee
• 2021-09-09 Joint Rule 62(a), file notice suspended. (Page 3087.)
• 2021-09-10 From committee: That the Senate amendments be concurred in. (Ayes 6. Noes 1.) (September 10). committee-passage
• 2021-09-10 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 62. Noes 14. Page 3116.). 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 396, Statutes of 2021. became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/a456ad2d-0dc5-4710-8927-4baae8a9c497. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).