republic-os/legislation/us/states/ca/20212022/sb-561.md

type, title, description, jurisdiction, legislature, session, identifier, citation, classification, subjects, status, primary_sponsors, version_count, action_count, vote_count, first_action, last_action, source, source_identifier, source_url, source_hash, vintage, source_snapshot, retrieved_at, confidence, tags

type	title	description	jurisdiction	legislature	session	identifier	citation	classification	subjects	status	primary_sponsors	version_count	action_count	vote_count	first_action	last_action	source	source_identifier	source_url	source_hash	vintage	source_snapshot	retrieved_at	confidence	tags
Bill	State surplus property: digital inventory: affordable housing.	Existing law requires each state agency annually to review certain proprietary state lands over which it has jurisdiction to determine what land, if any, is in excess of its foreseeable needs and report this in writing to the Department of General Services. Existing law requires the department to create a database of information on lands identified by a local government as suitable and available for residential development and information regarding the state lands determined or declared excess, as specified. Existing law requires the department to report to the Legislature annually the land declared excess and to request authorization to dispose of the land by sale or otherwise. Existing law authorizes the department to dispose of real property declared surplus by the Legislature, as specified.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20212022	SB 561	California SB 561 (20212022)	bill	State surplus property: digital inventory: affordable housing.	enacted	Dodd	9	33	8	2021-02-18	2022-09-19	openstates	ocd-bill/40138da0-4f73-407e-a2ee-705118d68f08	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB561	5a3ea83f306c877932818e9a92e34de3e4a7060f600abb1059562c2c2e7f6302	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California SB 561 (20212022) — State surplus property: digital inventory: affordable housing.

Existing law requires each state agency annually to review certain proprietary state lands over which it has jurisdiction to determine what land, if any, is in excess of its foreseeable needs and report this in writing to the Department of General Services. Existing law requires the department to create a database of information on lands identified by a local government as suitable and available for residential development and information regarding the state lands determined or declared excess, as specified. Existing law requires the department to report to the Legislature annually the land declared excess and to request authorization to dispose of the land by sale or otherwise. Existing law authorizes the department to dispose of real property declared surplus by the Legislature, as specified.

Version chain

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

1. 02/18/21 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 03/05/21 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
3. 05/27/22 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
4. 06/30/22 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
5. 08/15/22 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
6. 08/23/22 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
7. 09/19/22 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
8. SB561 (committee substitute) — source
9. 09/07/22 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Unfinished Business SB561 Dodd Concurrence — 32–6 (pass) · upper
• SB 561 Dodd Senate Third Reading By Petrie-Norris — 63–10 (pass) · lower
• Be re-referred to the Committees on [Accountability and Administrative Review] and [Housing and Community Development] — 7–0 (pass) · lower
• 3rd Reading — 37–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Housing and Community Development] — 5–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 15–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended. — 13–3 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 6–2 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Dodd — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2021-02-18 Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. introduction, reading-1
• 2021-02-19 From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 21.
• 2021-02-22 Art. IV. Sec. 8(a) of the Constitution dispensed with.
• 2021-02-22 (Ayes 32. Noes 4.)
• 2021-02-22 Joint Rule 55 suspended. (Ayes 32. Noes 4. Page 272.)
• 2021-03-03 Referred to Com. on RLS. referral-committee
• 2021-03-05 From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on RLS. amendment-passage, committee-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee
• 2021-03-18 Re-referred to Com. on G.O. referral-committee
• 2021-04-07 Set for hearing April 20.
• 2021-04-20 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 15. Noes 0. Page 857.) (April 20). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2021-05-04 From committee: Be ordered to second reading pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8. committee-passage, reading-2
• 2021-05-05 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2021-05-10 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 37. Noes 0. Page 1056.) Ordered to the Assembly. passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2021-05-10 In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. reading-1
• 2021-05-20 Referred to Com. on G.O. referral-committee
• 2021-06-17 Re-referred to Com. on RLS. pursuant to Assembly Rule 96. referral-committee
• 2022-05-27 Re-referred to Coms. on A. & A.R. and H. & C.D. referral-committee
• 2022-05-27 From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on A. & A.R. amendment-passage, committee-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee
• 2022-06-15 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on H. & C.D. (Ayes 5. Noes 0.) (June 15). Re-referred to Com. on H. & C.D. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2022-06-29 From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 6. Noes 2.) (June 29). amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2022-06-30 Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee
• 2022-08-03 August 3 set for first hearing. Placed on suspense file.
• 2022-08-11 From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 13. Noes 3.) (August 11). amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2022-08-15 Read second time and amended. Ordered to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
• 2022-08-16 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2022-08-23 Read third time and amended. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2022-08-23 Ordered to third reading.
• 2022-08-31 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2022-08-31 In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
• 2022-08-31 Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 32. Noes 6. Page 5391.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling. amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2022-09-09 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m.
• 2022-09-19 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2022-09-19 Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 446, Statutes of 2022. became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/40138da0-4f73-407e-a2ee-705118d68f08. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).