(1) Existing law requires the Governor to create the Homeless Coordinating and Financing Council, renamed the California Interagency Council on Homelessness, and specifies the duties of the coordinating council to include creating partnerships among state agencies and departments, local government agencies, and specified federal agencies and private entities, for the purpose of arriving at specific strategies to end homelessness. Existing law establishes the Encampment Resolution Funding program to assist cities, counties, and continuums of care in ensuring the safety and wellness of people experiencing homelessness in encampments, to provide encampment resolution grants to resolve critical encampment concerns and transition individuals into safe and stable housing, and to encourage a data-informed, coordinated approach to address encampment concerns. Existing law authorizes a continuum of care, city, or county to submit a specified application to the council for a program grant, and requires the council to prioritize funding applicants that demonstrate a commitment to cross-systems collaboration and innovative efforts to resolve encampment issues or have 50 or more individuals living in the encampment. Existing law requires the Homeless Coordinating and Financing Council to administer the program in accordance with a specified timeline, and requires the council to award initial grants by March 1, 2022. Existing law requires grant recipients to provide specified data elements, including health information, in a manner consistent with state and federal law, to their local Homeless Management Information System for tracking in the statewide Homeless Data Integration System.
(1) Existing law requires the Governor to create the Homeless Coordinating and Financing Council, renamed the California Interagency Council on Homelessness, and specifies the duties of the coordinating council to include creating partnerships among state agencies and departments, local government agencies, and specified federal agencies and private entities, for the purpose of arriving at specific strategies to end homelessness. Existing law establishes the Encampment Resolution Funding program to assist cities, counties, and continuums of care in ensuring the safety and wellness of people experiencing homelessness in encampments, to provide encampment resolution grants to resolve critical encampment concerns and transition individuals into safe and stable housing, and to encourage a data-informed, coordinated approach to address encampment concerns. Existing law authorizes a continuum of care, city, or county to submit a specified application to the council for a program grant, and requires the council to prioritize funding applicants that demonstrate a commitment to cross-systems collaboration and innovative efforts to resolve encampment issues or have 50 or more individuals living in the encampment. Existing law requires the Homeless Coordinating and Financing Council to administer the program in accordance with a specified timeline, and requires the council to award initial grants by March 1, 2022. Existing law requires grant recipients to provide specified data elements, including health information, in a manner consistent with state and federal law, to their local Homeless Management Information System for tracking in the statewide Homeless Data Integration System.
Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
Unfinished Business SB197 B. & F.R. (Skinner) Concurrence — 29–5 (pass) · upper
SB 197 B. & F. R. Senate Third Reading By TING — 79–0 (pass) · lower
Sponsors
Committee on Budget and Fiscal Review — primary (person)
Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
2021-01-08 Introduced. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. introduction
2021-01-11 From printer. May be acted upon on or after February 10.
2021-01-11 Read first time. reading-1
2021-01-28 Referred to Com. on B. & F.R. referral-committee
2021-02-16 Withdrawn from committee. (Ayes 26. Noes 5. Page 201.)
2021-02-16 Ordered to second reading.
2021-02-17 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
2021-02-22 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 29. Noes 8. Page 300.) Ordered to the Assembly. passage, reading-1, reading-3
2021-02-22 In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. reading-1
2021-02-25 Referred to Com. on BUDGET. referral-committee
2021-02-25 (Corrected May 14).
2022-06-26 From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on BUDGET. amendment-passage, committee-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee
2022-06-27 Assembly Rules suspended.
2022-06-27 (Ayes 57. Noes 18. Page 5550.)
2022-06-27 Withdrawn from committee.
2022-06-27 Ordered to second reading.
2022-06-28 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
2022-06-29 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 79. Noes 0. Page 5602.) Ordered to the Senate. passage, reading-1, reading-3
2022-06-29 In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
2022-06-29 Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 29. Noes 5. Page 4539.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling. amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable
2022-06-30 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 10:10 a.m.
2022-06-30 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
2022-06-30 Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 70, Statutes of 2022. became-law
Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/37334119-5492-4ed6-9347-1513c82d886f. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).
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