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Bill	Surplus residential property: use of funds: priorities and procedures: City of Pasadena.	(1) Existing law establishes priorities and procedures that any state agency disposing of surplus residential property is required to follow. Under existing law, specified single-family residences must first be offered to their present occupants, as specified. Existing law then requires the property to be offered to housing-related entities, as provided, prior to placing the property up for sale for fair market value, subject to specified priorities.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20212022	SB 959	California SB 959 (20212022)	bill	Surplus residential property: use of funds: priorities and procedures: City of Pasadena.	enacted	Portantino	7	35	9	2022-02-09	2022-09-28	openstates	ocd-bill/aaae563e-9a2a-4f06-920e-dd308c927a6e	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB959	809effac7690d79bd561c0809c68e05c26ec17885740e102b1def055002ef26a	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California SB 959 (20212022) — Surplus residential property: use of funds: priorities and procedures: City of Pasadena.

(1) Existing law establishes priorities and procedures that any state agency disposing of surplus residential property is required to follow. Under existing law, specified single-family residences must first be offered to their present occupants, as specified. Existing law then requires the property to be offered to housing-related entities, as provided, prior to placing the property up for sale for fair market value, subject to specified priorities.

Version chain

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

1. 02/09/22 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 03/14/22 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
3. 06/20/22 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
4. 08/25/22 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
5. 09/28/22 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
6. SB959 (committee substitute) — source
7. 09/08/22 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 12–1 (pass) · upper
• Unfinished Business SB959 Portantino et al. Concurrence — 40–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass — 5–1 (pass) · upper
• Do pass. To Consent Calendar. — 15–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with recommendation: To Consent Calendar — 8–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass. — 6–2 (pass) · lower
• Placed on suspense file — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• SB 959 Portantino Senate Third Reading By Holden — 68–9 (pass) · lower
• 3rd Reading — 29–5 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Portantino — primary (person)
• Holden — coauthor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2022-02-09 Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. introduction, reading-1
• 2022-02-09 Article IV Section 8(a) of the Constitution and Joint Rule 55 dispensed with February 7, 2022, suspending the 30 calendar day requirement.
• 2022-02-10 From printer.
• 2022-02-16 Referred to Com. on RLS. referral-committee
• 2022-03-14 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
• 2022-03-23 Re-referred to Com. on TRANS. referral-committee
• 2022-03-29 Set for hearing April 19.
• 2022-04-19 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 12. Noes 1. Page 3440.) (April 19). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2022-04-22 Set for hearing May 2.
• 2022-05-02 May 2 hearing: Placed on APPR suspense file.
• 2022-05-13 Set for hearing May 19.
• 2022-05-19 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 5. Noes 1. Page 3777.) (May 19). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2022-05-19 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2022-05-24 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 29. Noes 5. Page 3867.) Ordered to the Assembly. passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2022-05-25 In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. reading-1
• 2022-05-27 Referred to Com. on H. & C.D. referral-committee
• 2022-06-15 June 15 set for first hearing canceled at the request of author.
• 2022-06-20 From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on H. & C.D. amendment-passage, committee-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee
• 2022-06-29 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To consent calendar. (Ayes 8. Noes 0.) (June 29). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2022-08-03 From committee: Do pass. Ordered to consent calendar. (Ayes 15. Noes 0.) (August 3). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2022-08-04 Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar. reading-1, reading-2
• 2022-08-11 From consent calendar on motion of Assembly Member Reyes.
• 2022-08-11 Ordered to third reading.
• 2022-08-25 Read third time and amended. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2022-08-25 Ordered to third reading.
• 2022-08-25 Re-referred to Com. on H. & C.D. pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.2. referral-committee
• 2022-08-29 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 6. Noes 2.) (August 29). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2022-08-30 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2022-08-30 Assembly Rule 63 suspended.
• 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 40. Noes 0. Page 5415.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling. amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2022-09-13 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m.
• 2022-09-28 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2022-09-28 Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 668, Statutes of 2022. became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/aaae563e-9a2a-4f06-920e-dd308c927a6e. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).