CA SB 606
withdrawnHomeless Housing, Assistance, and Prevention program: reporting requirements: functional zero unsheltered.
California · 2025-2026 Regular Session · upper
Quick answers
Did CA SB 606 pass?
No. CA SB 606 was withdrawn on 2025-08-29 and is no longer under consideration. Latest recorded action (2025-08-29): August 29 hearing: Held in committee and under submission.
What is CA SB 606 about?
Existing law establishes the Homeless Housing, Assistance, and Prevention (HHAP) program for the purpose of providing jurisdictions with grant funds to support regional coordination and expand or develop local capacity to address their immediate homelessness challenges, as specified. Existing law provides for the allocation of funding under the program among continuums of care, cities, counties, and tribes in 6 rounds, with rounds 1 to 5, inclusive, administered by the Interagency Council on Homelessness and round 6 administered by the Department of Housing and Community Development, as provided. Existing law requires a program applicant to provide specified information through data collection, reporting, performance monitoring, and accountability framework, as established by the council. This bill would enact the Functional Zero Act, which, beginning with the next round of HHAP program applications, or when updates to the regionally coordinated homeless action plan are next required to be submitted, would require an applicant to provide information relating to its efforts to address homelessness in its jurisdiction, including an assessment of what would be required for the applicant to achieve and maintain both functional zero, which the bill would define as a milestone indicating a community has measurably solved homelessness, as specified, and functional zero unsheltered, which the bill would define as a necessary milestone in the effort to achieve functional zero indicating that sufficient housing options of all types to accommodate a jurisdiction's unsheltered, chronically homeless population based on its most recent homeless point-in-time count. The bill would require, as part of the assessment of progress toward functional zero, applicants to include, at a minimum, an analysis of the number of housing units of all types needed to achieve functional zero in a jurisdiction, and as part of the assessment of progress toward functional zero unsheltered, a financial model assessing the needs for investment in prescribed areas and further analysis of, among other things, funding programs that provide housing or services to persons experiencing homelessness. The bill would also require an applicant to provide information regarding the applicant's implementation of local homeless housing incentives, as provided, and to demonstrate its efforts to include small cities, as defined, in its regionally coordinated homeless action plan, as specified.
Who sponsors CA SB 606?
Becker is the primary sponsor of CA SB 606, joined by 1 cosponsor.
Description
Existing law establishes the Homeless Housing, Assistance, and Prevention (HHAP) program for the purpose of providing jurisdictions with grant funds to support regional coordination and expand or develop local capacity to address their immediate homelessness challenges, as specified. Existing law provides for the allocation of funding under the program among continuums of care, cities, counties, and tribes in 6 rounds, with rounds 1 to 5, inclusive, administered by the Interagency Council on Homelessness and round 6 administered by the Department of Housing and Community Development, as provided. Existing law requires a program applicant to provide specified information through data collection, reporting, performance monitoring, and accountability framework, as established by the council. This bill would enact the Functional Zero Act, which, beginning with the next round of HHAP program applications, or when updates to the regionally coordinated homeless action plan are next required to be submitted, would require an applicant to provide information relating to its efforts to address homelessness in its jurisdiction, including an assessment of what would be required for the applicant to achieve and maintain both functional zero, which the bill would define as a milestone indicating a community has measurably solved homelessness, as specified, and functional zero unsheltered, which the bill would define as a necessary milestone in the effort to achieve functional zero indicating that sufficient housing options of all types to accommodate a jurisdiction's unsheltered, chronically homeless population based on its most recent homeless point-in-time count. The bill would require, as part of the assessment of progress toward functional zero, applicants to include, at a minimum, an analysis of the number of housing units of all types needed to achieve functional zero in a jurisdiction, and as part of the assessment of progress toward functional zero unsheltered, a financial model assessing the needs for investment in prescribed areas and further analysis of, among other things, funding programs that provide housing or services to persons experiencing homelessness. The bill would also require an applicant to provide information regarding the applicant's implementation of local homeless housing incentives, as provided, and to demonstrate its efforts to include small cities, as defined, in its regionally coordinated homeless action plan, as specified.
- Introduced
- 2025-02-20
- Latest action
- 2025-08-29 — August 29 hearing: Held in committee and under submission.
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Sponsors
- Beckerauthor
- Blakespearcoauthor
Committees
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Action timeline
2025-02-20
Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print.
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2025-02-21
From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 23.
2025-03-05
Referred to Coms. on HOUSING and JUD.
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2025-03-27
From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on HOUSING.
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2025-03-28
Withdrawn from committee.
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2025-03-28
Re-referred to Com. on RLS.
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2025-04-02
Re-referred to Coms. on HOUSING and HUMAN S.
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2025-04-03
Withdrawn from committee.
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2025-04-03
Re-referred to Coms. on HUMAN S. and HOUSING.
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2025-04-08
Set for hearing April 21.
2025-04-22
From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on HOUSING. (Ayes 5. Noes 0. Page 812.) (April 21).
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2025-04-23
Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on HOUSING.
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2025-04-25
Set for hearing April 29.
2025-04-30
From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 11. Noes 0. Page 936.) (April 29). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
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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
Read second time and amended. Ordered to second reading.
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2025-05-23
From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 6. Noes 0. Page 1206.) (May 23).
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2025-05-27
Read second time. Ordered to third reading.
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2025-06-02
Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 38. Noes 0. Page 1376.) Ordered to the Assembly.
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2025-06-03
In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk.
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2025-06-09
Referred to Coms. on H. & C.D. and HUM. S.
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2025-06-23
From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on H. & C.D.
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2025-07-03
From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on HUM. S. (Ayes 10. Noes 0.) (July 2). Re-referred to Com. on HUM. S.
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2025-07-17
Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
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2025-07-17
From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (July 15).
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2025-07-17
Assembly Rule 63 suspended. (Ayes 49. Noes 15. Page 2578.)
2025-08-20
August 20 set for first hearing. Placed on APPR. suspense file.
2025-08-29
August 29 hearing: Held in committee and under submission.
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- 03/27/25 - Amended Senate — 2025-03-27Compare
- 04/23/25 - Amended Senate — 2025-04-23Compare
- 05/23/25 - Amended Senate — 2025-05-23Compare
- 06/23/25 - Amended Assembly — 2025-06-23Compare
- 07/17/25 - Amended Assembly — 2025-07-17Compare
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Votes
Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Housing]
2025-04-21 · pass · 5-0
Member-level votes (5)
- Pérez: yes
- Arreguín: yes
- Becker: yes
- Limón: yes
- Ochoa Bogh: yes
Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations]
2025-04-29 · pass · 11-0
Member-level votes (11)
- Arreguín: yes
- Cortese: yes
- Durazo: yes
- Cabaldon: yes
- Seyarto: yes
- Grayson: yes
- Wahab: yes
- Ochoa Bogh: yes
- Caballero: yes
- Gonzalez: yes
- Padilla: yes
Placed on suspense file
2025-05-12 · pass · 7-0
Member-level votes (7)
- Wahab: yes
- Seyarto: yes
- Grayson: yes
- Richardson: yes
- Cabaldon: yes
- Dahle: yes
- Caballero: yes
Do pass as amended
2025-05-23 · pass · 6-0
Member-level votes (7)
- Caballero: yes
- Seyarto: yes
- Wahab: yes
- Cabaldon: yes
- Richardson: yes
- Grayson: yes
- Dahle: other
3rd Reading
2025-06-02 · pass · 38-0
Member-level votes (40)
- Menjivar: yes
- Niello: yes
- Pérez: yes
- Rubio: yes
- Padilla: yes
- Alvarado-Gil: yes
- Cervantes: yes
- Wahab: yes
- Choi: yes
- Smallwood-Cuevas: yes
- Wiener: yes
- Jones: yes
- Grayson: yes
- Cortese: yes
- Seyarto: yes
- Ashby: yes
- Gonzalez: yes
- Arreguín: yes
- Archuleta: yes
- Umberg: yes
- Becker: yes
- Laird: yes
- Durazo: yes
- McGuire: yes
- Ochoa Bogh: yes
- Dahle: yes
- Blakespear: yes
- McNerney: yes
- Allen: yes
- Limón: yes
- Valladares: yes
- Caballero: yes
- Grove: yes
- Strickland: yes
- Stern: yes
- Weber Pierson: yes
- Cabaldon: yes
- Richardson: yes
- Hurtado: other
- Reyes: other
Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Human Services]
2025-07-02 · pass · 10-0
Member-level votes (12)
- Tangipa: yes
- Ávila Farías: yes
- Ward: yes
- Kalra: yes
- Lee: yes
- Garcia: yes
- Ta: yes
- Haney: yes
- Wilson: yes
- Patterson: yes
- Wicks: other
- Quirk-Silva: other
Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations]
2025-07-15 · pass · 7-0
Member-level votes (7)
- Elhawary: yes
- Lee: yes
- Tangipa: yes
- Celeste Rodriguez: yes
- Calderon: yes
- Castillo: yes
- Jackson: yes
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