republic-os/legislation/us/states/ca/20252026/sb-655.md

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Bill	Dwelling units: indoor temperature.	Existing law, the California Building Standards Law, establishes the California Building Standards Commission (commission) within the Government Operations Agency. Existing law requires the commission to approve and adopt building standards and to codify those standards in the California Building Standards Code. Existing law requires the commission to publish, or cause to be published, editions of the code in its entirety every 3 years, and to publish, or cause to be published, supplements as necessary in the intervening period. Existing law requires all state agencies that adopt or propose to adopt a building standard to submit the building standard to the commission for approval and adoption.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20252026	SB 655	California SB 655 (20252026)	bill	Dwellingunits indoortemperature	enacted	Stern	12	34	8	2025-02-20	2025-10-10	openstates	ocd-bill/62f283dd-0c2f-4430-ba34-7464c932d71c	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260SB655	4b8a033d405336d3758b40971d4b6f2e272437a8eb9bbed4f100b42cc642b6aa	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California SB 655 (20252026) — Dwelling units: indoor temperature.

Existing law, the California Building Standards Law, establishes the California Building Standards Commission (commission) within the Government Operations Agency. Existing law requires the commission to approve and adopt building standards and to codify those standards in the California Building Standards Code. Existing law requires the commission to publish, or cause to be published, editions of the code in its entirety every 3 years, and to publish, or cause to be published, supplements as necessary in the intervening period. Existing law requires all state agencies that adopt or propose to adopt a building standard to submit the building standard to the commission for approval and adoption.

Version chain

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

1. 02/20/25 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 03/25/25 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
3. 04/08/25 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
4. 04/21/25 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
5. 05/23/25 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
6. 06/16/25 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
7. 07/17/25 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
8. 09/02/25 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
9. 09/04/25 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
10. 10/10/25 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
11. SB655 (committee substitute) — source
12. 09/16/25 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Placed on suspense file — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 10–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended. — 11–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 10–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended — 6–0 (pass) · upper
• 3rd Reading — 39–0 (pass) · upper
• SB 655 Stern Senate Third Reading By Haney — 66–5 (pass) · lower
• Unfinished Business SB655 Stern et al. Concurrence — 31–8 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Stern — primary (person)
• Calderon — coauthor (person)
• Haney — 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 HOUSING. referral-committee
• 2025-03-25 From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on HOUSING. amendment-passage, committee-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee
• 2025-04-04 Set for hearing April 22.
• 2025-04-08 From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on HOUSING. amendment-passage, committee-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee
• 2025-04-17 April 22 set for first hearing canceled at the request of author.
• 2025-04-21 From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on HOUSING. amendment-passage, committee-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee
• 2025-04-22 Set for hearing April 29.
• 2025-04-30 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 10. Noes 0. Page 937.) (April 29). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2025-05-02 Set for hearing May 12.
• 2025-05-12 May 12 hearing: Placed on APPR. suspense file.
• 2025-05-16 Set for hearing May 23.
• 2025-05-23 From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 6. Noes 0. Page 1208.) (May 23). amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-05-23 Read second time and amended. Ordered to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
• 2025-05-27 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2025-06-04 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 39. Noes 0. Page 1506.) Ordered to the Assembly. passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2025-06-05 In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. reading-1
• 2025-06-16 Referred to Com. on H. & C.D. referral-committee
• 2025-06-16 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
• 2025-07-16 From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 10. Noes 0.) (July 16). amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-07-17 Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee
• 2025-08-20 August 20 set for first hearing. Placed on APPR. suspense file.
• 2025-08-29 From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 11. Noes 0.) (August 29). amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-09-02 Read second time and amended. Ordered to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
• 2025-09-03 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2025-09-04 Read third time and amended. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2025-09-04 Ordered to third reading.
• 2025-09-09 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 66. Noes 5. Page 3089.) Ordered to the Senate. passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2025-09-09 In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
• 2025-09-11 Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 31. Noes 8. Page 2874.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling. amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-09-22 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 2 p.m.
• 2025-10-10 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2025-10-10 Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 522, Statutes of 2025. became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/62f283dd-0c2f-4430-ba34-7464c932d71c. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).