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Bill	Senior citizens: intergenerational housing developments.	Existing law requires the covenants, conditions, and restrictions or other documents or written policy of a senior citizen housing development to set forth the limitations on occupancy, residency, or use on the basis of age. Existing law requires that the limitations on age require, at a minimum, that the persons commencing any occupancy of a dwelling unit include a senior citizen who intends to reside in the unit as their primary residence on a permanent basis. Existing law defines "senior citizen housing development" for these purposes as a residential development for senior citizens that has at least 35 dwelling units. Existing law defines "qualifying resident" or "senior citizen" to mean a person 62 years of age or older, or 55 years of age or older in a senior citizen housing development.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20212022	SB 591	California SB 591 (20212022)	bill	Senior citizens: intergenerational housing developments.	enacted	Becker	8	33	7	2021-02-18	2021-09-28	openstates	ocd-bill/c633910b-841d-4ec9-a9cb-4fbb36668a93	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB591	d8f0d4a931acb5a002901df58561fc867345d422295af17d17832980ee6892fd	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California SB 591 (20212022) — Senior citizens: intergenerational housing developments.

Existing law requires the covenants, conditions, and restrictions or other documents or written policy of a senior citizen housing development to set forth the limitations on occupancy, residency, or use on the basis of age. Existing law requires that the limitations on age require, at a minimum, that the persons commencing any occupancy of a dwelling unit include a senior citizen who intends to reside in the unit as their primary residence on a permanent basis. Existing law defines "senior citizen housing development" for these purposes as a residential development for senior citizens that has at least 35 dwelling units. Existing law defines "qualifying resident" or "senior citizen" to mean a person 62 years of age or older, or 55 years of age or older in a senior citizen housing development.

Version chain

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

1. 02/18/21 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 04/05/21 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
3. 04/12/21 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
4. 05/03/21 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
5. 06/10/21 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
6. 09/28/21 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
7. SB591 (committee substitute) — source
8. 09/01/21 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do pass as amended, and be ordered to the Consent Calendar — 9–0 (pass) · upper
• Unfinished Business SB591 Becker et al. Concurrence — 39–0 (pass) · upper
• SB 591 Becker Senate Third Reading By Wicks — 71–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass. — 11–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Judiciary] — 8–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Housing] with the recommendation: To Consent Calendar — 11–0 (pass) · upper
• Consent Calendar SB591 — 37–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Becker — primary (person)
• Robert Rivas — coauthor (person)
• Wicks — coauthor (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 Coms. on JUD., HOUSING, and HUMAN S. referral-committee
• 2021-03-04 Referral to Com. on HUMAN S. rescinded because of the limitations placed on committee hearings due to ongoing health and safety risks of the COVID-19 virus.
• 2021-03-17 Set for hearing April 6.
• 2021-03-29 April 6 set for first hearing canceled at the request of author.
• 2021-04-05 From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on JUD. amendment-passage, committee-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee
• 2021-04-06 Set for hearing April 13.
• 2021-04-06 April 13 set for second hearing canceled at the request of author.
• 2021-04-07 Set for hearing April 20.
• 2021-04-12 From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on JUD. amendment-passage, committee-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee
• 2021-04-13 Set for hearing April 20.
• 2021-04-21 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on HOUSING with recommendation: To consent calendar. (Ayes 11. Noes 0. Page 860.) (April 20). Re-referred to Com. on HOUSING. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2021-04-23 Set for hearing April 29.
• 2021-04-29 From committee: Do pass as amended. Ordered to consent calendar. (Ayes 9. Noes 0. Page 987.) (April 29). amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2021-05-03 Read second time and amended. Ordered to consent calendar. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
• 2021-05-10 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 37. Noes 0. Page 1059.) 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 Coms. on H. & C.D. and JUD. referral-committee
• 2021-06-09 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on JUD. (Ayes 8. Noes 0.) (June 8). Re-referred to Com. on JUD. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2021-06-10 From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on JUD. amendment-passage, committee-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee
• 2021-06-22 Coauthors revised.
• 2021-06-22 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 11. Noes 0.) (June 22). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2021-06-23 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2021-08-23 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 71. Noes 0. Page 2472.) Ordered to the Senate. passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2021-08-26 In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
• 2021-08-30 Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 39. Noes 0. Page 2213.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling. amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2021-09-03 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 2 p.m.
• 2021-09-28 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2021-09-28 Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 364, Statutes of 2021. became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/c633910b-841d-4ec9-a9cb-4fbb36668a93. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).