republic-os/legislation/us/states/ca/20192020/ab-728.md

---
type: "Bill"
title: "Homeless multidisciplinary personnel teams."
description: "Existing law authorizes a county to establish a homeless adult and family multidisciplinary personnel team, as defined, with the goal of facilitating the expedited identification, assessment, and linkage of homeless individuals to housing and supportive services within that county and to allow provider agencies to share confidential information for the purpose of coordinating housing and supportive services to ensure continuity of care. Existing law requires that the sharing of information permitted under these provisions be governed by protocols developed in each county, as specified, and requires each county to provide a copy of its protocols to the State Department of Social Services."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20192020"
identifier: "AB 728"
citation: "California AB 728 (20192020)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Homeless multidisciplinary personnel teams."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Santiago"]
version_count: 9
action_count: 28
vote_count: 8
first_action: "2019-02-19"
last_action: "2019-09-26"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/6edfc3c3-2f82-4974-a142-dd63657b8fe0"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB728"
source_hash: "800099d5af8f61abb9e1bb15a77f4850abb5d515ed3c3e8ee93c6b4093a8ab2c"
vintage: "2026-07-01"
source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
confidence: "reported"
tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-ca"]
---

# California AB 728 (20192020) — Homeless multidisciplinary personnel teams.

Existing law authorizes a county to establish a homeless adult and family multidisciplinary personnel team, as defined, with the goal of facilitating the expedited identification, assessment, and linkage of homeless individuals to housing and supportive services within that county and to allow provider agencies to share confidential information for the purpose of coordinating housing and supportive services to ensure continuity of care. Existing law requires that the sharing of information permitted under these provisions be governed by protocols developed in each county, as specified, and requires each county to provide a copy of its protocols to the State Department of Social Services.

## Version chain

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

1. **02/19/19 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB728&version=20190AB72899INT)
2. **03/21/19 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB728&version=20190AB72898AMD)
3. **05/01/19 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB728&version=20190AB72897AMD)
4. **06/17/19 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB728&version=20190AB72896AMD)
5. **06/28/19 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB728&version=20190AB72895AMD)
6. **07/11/19 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB728&version=20190AB72894AMD)
7. **09/26/19 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB728&version=20190AB72892CHP)
8. **AB728** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB728)
9. **09/06/19 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB728&version=20190AB72893ENR)

## Votes

- Do pass as amended, and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with recommendation: To Consent Calendar — **11–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass. To Consent Calendar. — **18–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Judiciary] — **6–0** (pass) · upper
- AB 728 Santiago Consent Calendar Second Day — **74–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Privacy and Consumer Protection] — **8–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Appropriations] with the recommendation: To Consent Calendar — **8–0** (pass) · upper
- Consent Calendar AB728 — **37–0** (pass) · upper
- AB 728 Santiago Concurrence in Senate Amendments — **79–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Santiago — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-02-19** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
- **2019-02-20** From printer. May be heard in committee March 22.
- **2019-03-21** Referred to Coms. on HUM. S. and P. & C.P. `referral-committee`
- **2019-03-21** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on HUM. S. Read second time and amended. `reading-1, reading-2, amendment-passage, amendment-introduction`
- **2019-03-25** Re-referred to Com. on HUM. S. `referral-committee`
- **2019-04-10** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on P. & C.P. (Ayes 8. Noes 0.) (April 9). Re-referred to Com. on P. & C.P. `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2019-04-30** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 11. Noes 0.) (April 23). `amendment-passage, committee-passage, amendment-introduction`
- **2019-05-01** Read second time and amended. `amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2`
- **2019-05-02** Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `referral-committee`
- **2019-05-08** From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 18. Noes 0.) (May 8). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2019-05-09** Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2019-05-16** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 74. Noes 0. Page 1770.) `passage, reading-3, reading-1`
- **2019-05-16** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2019-05-29** Referred to Coms. on HUMAN S. and JUD. `referral-committee`
- **2019-06-10** In committee: Set, first hearing. Testimony taken. Further hearing to be set.
- **2019-06-17** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on HUMAN S. `reading-1, reading-2, amendment-passage, referral-committee, amendment-introduction`
- **2019-06-25** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on JUD. (Ayes 6. Noes 0.) (June 24). Re-referred to Com. on JUD. `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2019-06-28** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on JUD. `reading-1, reading-2, amendment-passage, referral-committee, amendment-introduction`
- **2019-07-10** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 8. Noes 0.) (July 9). `amendment-passage, committee-passage, amendment-introduction`
- **2019-07-11** Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `reading-1, reading-2, amendment-passage, referral-committee`
- **2019-08-12** From committee: Be ordered to second reading file pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8 and ordered to Consent Calendar. `committee-passage, reading-2`
- **2019-08-13** Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2019-08-15** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 37. Noes 0. Page 2183.). `passage, reading-3, reading-1`
- **2019-08-15** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after August 17 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
- **2019-09-05** Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 79. Noes 0. Page 3006.). `amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-09-11** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3:30 p.m.
- **2019-09-26** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2019-09-26** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 337, Statutes of 2019.

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/6edfc3c3-2f82-4974-a142-dd63657b8fe0`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).