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type: "Bill"
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title: "General plans: housing element: emergency shelter."
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description: "Existing law requires a city or county to prepare and adopt a general plan for its jurisdiction that contains certain mandatory elements, including a housing element. Existing law requires the housing element to identify adequate sites for housing, including rental housing, factory-built housing, mobilehomes, and emergency shelters, among other things. Existing law requires the housing element to contain an assessment of housing needs and an inventory of resources and constraints relevant to the meeting of these needs, including by identifying one or more zoning designations that allow residential uses, including mixed uses, where emergency shelters are allowed as a permitted use without a conditional use or other discretionary permit and that are suitable for residential uses. Existing law requires an emergency shelter to include other interim interventions, including, but not limited to, a navigation center, bridge housing, and respite or recuperative care."
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jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
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legislature: "California Legislature"
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session: "20252026"
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identifier: "SB 340"
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citation: "California SB 340 (20252026)"
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classification: ["bill"]
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subjects: ["Generalplans", "emergencyshelter", "housingelement"]
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status: "enacted"
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primary_sponsors: ["Laird"]
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version_count: 6
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action_count: 29
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vote_count: 7
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first_action: "2025-02-12"
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last_action: "2025-10-10"
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source: "openstates"
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source_identifier: "ocd-bill/b577e130-7cf1-4c28-973d-be05b7481968"
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source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260SB340"
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source_hash: "f148fc21c1eda8223cda95eada967896bb7ba43ddb9820588f8383052c040657"
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vintage: "2026-07-01"
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source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
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retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
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confidence: "reported"
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tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-ca"]
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---
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# California SB 340 (20252026) — General plans: housing element: emergency shelter.
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Existing law requires a city or county to prepare and adopt a general plan for its jurisdiction that contains certain mandatory elements, including a housing element. Existing law requires the housing element to identify adequate sites for housing, including rental housing, factory-built housing, mobilehomes, and emergency shelters, among other things. Existing law requires the housing element to contain an assessment of housing needs and an inventory of resources and constraints relevant to the meeting of these needs, including by identifying one or more zoning designations that allow residential uses, including mixed uses, where emergency shelters are allowed as a permitted use without a conditional use or other discretionary permit and that are suitable for residential uses. Existing law requires an emergency shelter to include other interim interventions, including, but not limited to, a navigation center, bridge housing, and respite or recuperative care.
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## Version chain
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The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
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1. **02/12/25 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260SB340&version=20250SB34099INT)
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2. **03/17/25 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260SB340&version=20250SB34098AMD)
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3. **09/03/25 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260SB340&version=20250SB34097AMD)
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4. **10/10/25 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260SB340&version=20250SB34095CHP)
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5. **SB340** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260SB340)
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6. **09/12/25 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260SB340&version=20250SB34096ENR)
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## Votes
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- Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **11–0** (pass) · upper
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- SB 340 Laird Senate Third Reading By Ávila Farías — **74–4** (pass) · lower
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- 3rd Reading — **39–0** (pass) · upper
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- Unfinished Business SB340 Laird et al. Concurrence — **40–0** (pass) · upper
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- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with recommendation: To Consent Calendar — **10–0** (pass) · lower
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- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Local Government] — **11–0** (pass) · lower
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- Do pass. To Consent Calendar. — **15–0** (pass) · lower
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## Sponsors
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- Laird — primary (person)
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- Blakespear — coauthor (person)
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## Timeline
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The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
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- **2025-02-12** Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. `introduction, reading-1`
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- **2025-02-13** From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 15.
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- **2025-02-19** Referred to Com. on RLS. `referral-committee`
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- **2025-03-17** 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`
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- **2025-03-20** Set for hearing April 1 in HOUSING pending receipt.
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- **2025-03-26** Re-referred to Com. on HOUSING. `referral-committee`
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- **2025-04-02** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 11. Noes 0. Page 609.) (April 1). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
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- **2025-04-04** Set for hearing April 21.
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- **2025-04-21** From committee: Be ordered to second reading pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8. `committee-passage, reading-2`
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- **2025-04-22** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
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- **2025-05-27** Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 39. Noes 0. Page 1238.) Ordered to the Assembly. `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
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- **2025-05-28** In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. `reading-1`
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- **2025-06-05** Referred to Coms. on H. & C.D. and L. GOV. `referral-committee`
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- **2025-06-10** Coauthors revised.
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- **2025-06-18** June 18 hearing postponed by committee.
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- **2025-07-03** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on L. GOV. (Ayes 11. Noes 0.) (July 2). Re-referred to Com. on L. GOV. `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
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- **2025-07-17** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To consent calendar. (Ayes 10. Noes 0.) (July 16). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
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- **2025-08-20** From committee: Do pass. Ordered to consent calendar. (Ayes 15. Noes 0.) (August 20). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
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- **2025-08-21** Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar. `reading-1, reading-2`
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- **2025-08-25** From consent calendar on motion of Assembly Member Garcia.
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- **2025-08-25** Ordered to third reading.
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- **2025-09-03** Read third time and amended. `amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-3`
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- **2025-09-03** Ordered to third reading.
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- **2025-09-08** Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 74. Noes 4. Page 2987.) Ordered to the Senate. `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
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- **2025-09-08** In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
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- **2025-09-09** Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 40. Noes 0. Page 2713.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling. `amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
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- **2025-09-16** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m.
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- **2025-10-10** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
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- **2025-10-10** Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 514, Statutes of 2025. `became-law`
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## Source
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OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/b577e130-7cf1-4c28-973d-be05b7481968`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).
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