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type: "Bill"
title: "Senior citizens: intergenerational housing developments."
description: "Existing law requires the covenants, conditions, and restrictions or other documents or written policy of a senior citizen housing development to set forth the limitations on occupancy, residency, or use on the basis of age. Existing law requires that the limitations on age require, at a minimum, that the persons commencing any occupancy of a dwelling unit include a senior citizen who intends to reside in the unit as their primary residence on a permanent basis. Existing law defines \"senior citizen housing development\" for these purposes as a residential development for senior citizens that has at least 35 dwelling units. Existing law defines \"qualifying resident\" or \"senior citizen\" to mean a person 62 years of age or older, or 55 years of age or older in a senior citizen housing development."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20212022"
identifier: "SB 591"
citation: "California SB 591 (20212022)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Senior citizens: intergenerational housing developments."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Becker"]
version_count: 8
action_count: 33
vote_count: 7
first_action: "2021-02-18"
last_action: "2021-09-28"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/c633910b-841d-4ec9-a9cb-4fbb36668a93"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB591"
source_hash: "d8f0d4a931acb5a002901df58561fc867345d422295af17d17832980ee6892fd"
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 SB 591 (20212022) — Senior citizens: intergenerational housing developments.
Existing law requires the covenants, conditions, and restrictions or other documents or written policy of a senior citizen housing development to set forth the limitations on occupancy, residency, or use on the basis of age. Existing law requires that the limitations on age require, at a minimum, that the persons commencing any occupancy of a dwelling unit include a senior citizen who intends to reside in the unit as their primary residence on a permanent basis. Existing law defines "senior citizen housing development" for these purposes as a residential development for senior citizens that has at least 35 dwelling units. Existing law defines "qualifying resident" or "senior citizen" to mean a person 62 years of age or older, or 55 years of age or older in a senior citizen housing development.
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **02/18/21 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB591&version=20210SB59199INT)
2. **04/05/21 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB591&version=20210SB59198AMD)
3. **04/12/21 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB591&version=20210SB59197AMD)
4. **05/03/21 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB591&version=20210SB59196AMD)
5. **06/10/21 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB591&version=20210SB59195AMD)
6. **09/28/21 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB591&version=20210SB59193CHP)
7. **SB591** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB591)
8. **09/01/21 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB591&version=20210SB59194ENR)
## Votes
- Do pass as amended, and be ordered to the Consent Calendar — **90** (pass) · upper
- Unfinished Business SB591 Becker et al. Concurrence — **390** (pass) · upper
- SB 591 Becker Senate Third Reading By Wicks — **710** (pass) · lower
- Do pass. — **110** (pass) · lower
- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Judiciary] — **80** (pass) · lower
- Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Housing] with the recommendation: To Consent Calendar — **110** (pass) · upper
- Consent Calendar SB591 — **370** (pass) · upper
## Sponsors
- Becker — primary (person)
- Robert Rivas — coauthor (person)
- Wicks — coauthor (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2021-02-18** Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. `introduction, reading-1`
- **2021-02-19** From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 21.
- **2021-02-22** Art. IV. Sec. 8(a) of the Constitution dispensed with.
- **2021-02-22** (Ayes 32. Noes 4.)
- **2021-02-22** Joint Rule 55 suspended. (Ayes 32. Noes 4. Page 272.)
- **2021-03-03** Referred to Coms. on JUD., HOUSING, and HUMAN S. `referral-committee`
- **2021-03-04** Referral to Com. on HUMAN S. rescinded because of the limitations placed on committee hearings due to ongoing health and safety risks of the COVID-19 virus.
- **2021-03-17** Set for hearing April 6.
- **2021-03-29** April 6 set for first hearing canceled at the request of author.
- **2021-04-05** 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`
- **2021-04-06** Set for hearing April 13.
- **2021-04-06** April 13 set for second hearing canceled at the request of author.
- **2021-04-07** Set for hearing April 20.
- **2021-04-12** 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`
- **2021-04-13** Set for hearing April 20.
- **2021-04-21** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on HOUSING with recommendation: To consent calendar. (Ayes 11. Noes 0. Page 860.) (April 20). Re-referred to Com. on HOUSING. `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
- **2021-04-23** Set for hearing April 29.
- **2021-04-29** From committee: Do pass as amended. Ordered to consent calendar. (Ayes 9. Noes 0. Page 987.) (April 29). `amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-05-03** Read second time and amended. Ordered to consent calendar. `amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2`
- **2021-05-10** Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 37. Noes 0. Page 1059.) Ordered to the Assembly. `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2021-05-10** In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. `reading-1`
- **2021-05-20** Referred to Coms. on H. & C.D. and JUD. `referral-committee`
- **2021-06-09** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on JUD. (Ayes 8. Noes 0.) (June 8). Re-referred to Com. on JUD. `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
- **2021-06-10** 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`
- **2021-06-22** Coauthors revised.
- **2021-06-22** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 11. Noes 0.) (June 22). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-06-23** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2021-08-23** Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 71. Noes 0. Page 2472.) Ordered to the Senate. `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2021-08-26** In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
- **2021-08-30** Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 39. Noes 0. Page 2213.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling. `amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-09-03** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 2 p.m.
- **2021-09-28** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2021-09-28** Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 364, Statutes of 2021. `became-law`
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/c633910b-841d-4ec9-a9cb-4fbb36668a93`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).