republic-os/legislation/us/states/ca/20252026/sb-634.md

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Bill	Local government: homelessness.	The California Constitution authorizes a county or city to make and enforce within its limits all local, police, sanitary, and other ordinances and regulations not in conflict with general laws. Existing law establishes procedures for the enactment of ordinances by counties and cities and makes a violation of a county or city ordinance, as applicable, a misdemeanor unless by ordinance it is made an infraction.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20252026	SB 634	California SB 634 (20252026)	bill	Localgovernment homelessness	enacted	Pérez	8	29	6	2025-02-20	2025-10-10	openstates	ocd-bill/0d3fc2a7-fc70-4c6e-b873-d71a14c2b44b	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260SB634	6d6d7054569e0fe69164c3e7b5d0557f2b6aed609e9a0569454cd492b08ca690	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California SB 634 (20252026) — Local government: homelessness.

The California Constitution authorizes a county or city to make and enforce within its limits all local, police, sanitary, and other ordinances and regulations not in conflict with general laws. Existing law establishes procedures for the enactment of ordinances by counties and cities and makes a violation of a county or city ordinance, as applicable, a misdemeanor unless by ordinance it is made an infraction.

Version chain

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

1. 02/20/25 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 03/26/25 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
3. 04/28/25 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
4. 05/29/25 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
5. 06/24/25 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
6. 10/10/25 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
7. SB634 (committee substitute) — source
8. 09/13/25 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do pass. — 9–3 (pass) · lower
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Housing and Community Development] — 6–2 (pass) · lower
• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Judiciary] — 4–2 (pass) · upper
• SB 634 Pérez Senate Third Reading By Bryan — 55–20 (pass) · lower
• Unfinished Business SB634 Pérez et al. Concurrence — 22–16 (pass) · upper
• 3rd Reading — 23–11 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Pérez — primary (person)
• Haney — coauthor (person)
• Kalra — principal coauthor (person)
• Lee — principal coauthor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2025-02-20 Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. introduction, reading-1
• 2025-02-21 From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 23.
• 2025-03-05 Referred to Com. on RLS. referral-committee
• 2025-03-26 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
• 2025-04-02 Re-referred to Coms. on L. GOV. and JUD. referral-committee
• 2025-04-04 Set for hearing April 23.
• 2025-04-09 Set for hearing April 29 in JUD. pending receipt.
• 2025-04-23 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on JUD. (Ayes 4. Noes 2. Page 871.) (April 23). Re-referred to Com. on JUD. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2025-04-28 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
• 2025-04-29 Withdrawn from committee.
• 2025-04-29 Ordered to second reading.
• 2025-04-30 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2025-05-29 Read third time and amended. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2025-05-29 Ordered to second reading.
• 2025-06-02 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2025-06-03 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 23. Noes 11. Page 1463.) Ordered to the Assembly. passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2025-06-04 In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. reading-1
• 2025-06-09 Referred to Coms. on L. GOV. and H. & C.D. referral-committee
• 2025-06-24 From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on L. GOV. amendment-passage, committee-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee
• 2025-07-03 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on H. & C.D. (Ayes 6. Noes 2.) (July 2). Re-referred to Com. on H. & C.D. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2025-07-16 Coauthors revised.
• 2025-07-16 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 9. Noes 3.) (July 16). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-07-17 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2025-09-09 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 55. Noes 20. Page 3067.) Ordered to the Senate. passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2025-09-09 In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
• 2025-09-10 Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 22. Noes 16. Page 2806.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling. amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-09-22 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 11 a.m.
• 2025-10-10 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2025-10-10 Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 521, Statutes of 2025. became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/0d3fc2a7-fc70-4c6e-b873-d71a14c2b44b. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).