CaliforniaRecovery housing: funding.
What it does
Existing law establishes the California Interagency Council on Homelessness to oversee the implementation of Housing First guidelines and regulations, and, among other things, identify resources, benefits, and services that can be accessed to prevent and end homelessness in California. Existing law requires a state agency or department that funds, implements, or administers a state program that provides housing or housing-related services to people experiencing homelessness or who are at risk of homelessness to revise or adopt guidelines and regulations to include enumerated Housing First policies. Existing law specifies the core components of Housing First, including services that are informed by a harm-reduction philosophy that recognizes drug and alcohol use and addiction as a part of tenants' lives and where tenants are engaged in nonjudgmental communication regarding drug and alcohol use.
More detail
This bill would require applicants for state homelessness funding for recovery housing, as defined, to demonstrate the availability of a range of interventions, as specified. The bill would require a program that provides recovery housing to meet specified requirements in order to be eligible for state funding, including that the program satisfies the core components of Housing First, relapse is not, unless there is another lease violation, grounds for eviction and residents receive relapse support, the program provides emergency preparedness and overdose prevention and response training to staff and residents and makes overdose reversal medication available and readily accessible to staff and residents onsite, and the program adopts and maintains a written return-to-use policy, as specified. The bill would make related findings and declarations.
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Where it stands
- Introduced
- Passed Assembly
- Passed Senate
- To Governor
- Became Law
Looking ahead
No hearings or votes scheduled.
History
- 2026
- Sep 29Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 779, Statutes of 2026.Latest
- Sep 29Approved by the Governor Gavin Newsom.Became Law
- Sep 8Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3:30 p.m.To Governor
- Aug 28Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 78. Noes 0. Page 6788.).Major
- Vote recorded AB 1556 Haney Concurrence in Senate Amendments. Result: pass.Lower
- Aug 27In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending.
- Vote recorded 3rd Reading AB1556 Haney By Allen. Result: pass.Upper
- Aug 27Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 39. Noes 0.).Passed Senate
- Aug 11Read second time. Ordered to third reading.Minor
- Aug 10From committee: Be ordered to second reading pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8.Minor
- Aug 3From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on APPR.Major
- Jul 29In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
- Jul 8Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR.Major
- Jul 8From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 10. Noes 0.) (July 1).Major
- Jul 1
- Vote recorded Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Appropriations]. Result: pass.Upper
- Jun 25From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on HEALTH.Major
- Jun 25From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on HEALTH. (Ayes 10. Noes 0.) (June 24). Re-referred to Com. on HEALTH.Minor
- Jun 24
- Vote recorded Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Health]. Result: pass.Upper
- Jun 10Referred to Coms. on HOUSING and HEALTH.Minor
- May 28In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment.Minor
- May 27Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 78. Noes 0. Page 5444.)Passed Assembly
- Vote recorded AB 1556 Haney Assembly Third Reading. Result: pass.Lower
- May 22Read third time and amended. Ordered to third reading. (Page 5270.)Major
- May 18Read second time. Ordered to third reading.Minor
- May 14From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 15. Noes 0.) (May 14).Minor
- Vote recorded Do pass. Result: pass.Lower
- May 6In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to APPR. suspense file.Minor
- Apr 27Re-referred to Com. on APPR.Minor
- Apr 23Read second time and amended.Major
- Apr 22From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 16. Noes 0.) (April 21).Major
- Apr 21
- Vote recorded Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations]. Result: pass.Lower
- Apr 15From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on HEALTH. (Ayes 12. Noes 0.) (April 15). Re-referred to Com. on HEALTH.Minor
- Vote recorded Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Health]. Result: pass.Lower
- Mar 23Re-referred to Com. on H. & C.D.Minor
- Mar 19From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on H. & C.D. Read second time and amended.Major
- Mar 19Referred to Coms. on H. & C.D. and HEALTH.Minor
- Jan 9From printer. May be heard in committee February 8.
- Jan 8Read first time. To print.Introduced