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Bill	Joint powers agreements: regional housing trusts.	The Joint Exercise of Powers Act authorizes 2 or more public agencies, by agreement, to form a joint powers authority to exercise any power common to the contracting parties, as specified. Existing law authorizes the agreement to set forth the manner by which the joint powers authority will be governed. That act specifically authorizes the creation of the Orange County Housing Finance Trust and the San Gabriel Valley Regional Housing Trust, both joint powers authorities, for the purpose of funding housing to assist the homeless population and persons and families of extremely low, very low, and low income within their respective regions, as specified.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20232024	SB 20	California SB 20 (20232024)	bill	Joint powers agreements regional housing trusts	enacted	Rubio	6	28	6	2022-12-05	2023-09-01	openstates	ocd-bill/353c9db2-b528-4099-9b0e-7337a5706a5b	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB20	14c77ea274c6dc8cda6681e61701bd43648b3f4fe7b5b4c0da869c26dd100b9c	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California SB 20 (20232024) — Joint powers agreements: regional housing trusts.

The Joint Exercise of Powers Act authorizes 2 or more public agencies, by agreement, to form a joint powers authority to exercise any power common to the contracting parties, as specified. Existing law authorizes the agreement to set forth the manner by which the joint powers authority will be governed. That act specifically authorizes the creation of the Orange County Housing Finance Trust and the San Gabriel Valley Regional Housing Trust, both joint powers authorities, for the purpose of funding housing to assist the homeless population and persons and families of extremely low, very low, and low income within their respective regions, as specified.

Version chain

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

1. 12/05/22 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 04/13/23 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
3. 05/16/23 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
4. 09/01/23 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
5. SB20 (committee substitute) — source
6. 08/18/23 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do pass. To Consent Calendar. — 8–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Housing and Community Development] with recommendation: To Consent Calendar — 8–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Housing] — 8–0 (pass) · upper
• 3rd Reading SB20 Rubio et al. — 36–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass — 10–0 (pass) · upper
• SB 20 Rubio Consent Calendar Second Day — 75–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Rubio — primary (person)
• Blakespear — coauthor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2022-12-05 Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. introduction, reading-1
• 2022-12-06 From printer. May be acted upon on or after January 5.
• 2023-01-18 Referred to Coms. on GOV. & F. and HOUSING. referral-committee
• 2023-03-14 Set for hearing March 29.
• 2023-03-22 March 29 hearing postponed by committee.
• 2023-03-23 Set for hearing April 12.
• 2023-04-12 From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on HOUSING. (Ayes 8. Noes 0. Page 683.) (April 12). amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2023-04-13 Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on HOUSING. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee
• 2023-04-18 Set for hearing May 2.
• 2023-05-02 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 10. Noes 0. Page 981.) (May 2). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2023-05-03 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2023-05-09 Ordered to special consent calendar.
• 2023-05-11 From special consent calendar on motion of Senator Rubio.
• 2023-05-11 Ordered to third reading.
• 2023-05-16 Read third time and amended. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2023-05-16 Ordered to second reading.
• 2023-05-17 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2023-05-22 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 36. Noes 0. Page 1215.) Ordered to the Assembly. passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2023-05-23 In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. reading-1
• 2023-05-26 Referred to Coms. on L. GOV. and H. & C.D. referral-committee
• 2023-06-21 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on H. & C.D. with recommendation: To consent calendar. (Ayes 8. Noes 0.) (June 21). Re-referred to Com. on H. & C.D. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2023-07-12 From committee: Do pass. Ordered to consent calendar. (Ayes 8. Noes 0.) (July 12). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2023-07-13 Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar. reading-1, reading-2
• 2023-08-17 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 75. Noes 0. Page 2743.) Ordered to the Senate. passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2023-08-17 In Senate. Ordered to engrossing and enrolling.
• 2023-08-22 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 2 p.m.
• 2023-09-01 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2023-09-01 Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 147, Statutes of 2023. became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/353c9db2-b528-4099-9b0e-7337a5706a5b. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).