CaliforniaCities designated as local health jurisdictions could form homelessness teams
Under the signed bill, cities designated as local health jurisdictions could form teams to help connect adults and families recorded as homeless in the past year with housing and services.
What it does
Cities designated as local health jurisdictions could form teams to help adults and families recorded as homeless in the past year find housing and services. Cities that form teams would have to set privacy rules.
Argument forIn designated cities that form teams, workers could share information to help adults and families recorded as homeless in the past year find housing and services sooner.
Argument againstEven with privacy rules, teams formed by designated cities could expose private details about adults and families recorded as homeless in the past year to additional workers.
More detail
A city designated as a local health jurisdiction could form a team to help connect homeless adults and families with housing and services. For this section, an adult or family counts as homeless if their report was recorded, or a service record shows homelessness, within the past 12 months. A city that forms a team would have to set written rules for sharing private information, give them to participating agencies, post them online, and send a copy to the state. Team members would have to follow privacy laws when sharing information.
Where do you stand?
Choose your position
Tell your reps
Take a position to see your representatives and ways to contact them.
Where it stands
- Introduced
- Passed Senate
- Passed Assembly
- To Governor
- Became Law
Looking ahead
No hearings or votes scheduled.
History
- 2026
- Sep 30Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 969, Statutes of 2026.Latest
- Sep 30Approved by the Governor Gavin Newsom.Became Law
- Aug 27Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4:30 p.m.To Governor
- Aug 24Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 40. Noes 0. Page 5682.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling.Major
- Vote recorded Unfinished Business SB479 Arreguín Concurrence. Result: pass.Upper
- Aug 19In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
- Vote recorded SB 479 Arreguín Senate Third Reading By Wicks. Result: pass.Lower
- Aug 19Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 76. Noes 0. Page 6273.) Ordered to the Senate.Passed Assembly
- Aug 6Read second time. Ordered to third reading.Minor
- Aug 5From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 15. Noes 0.) (August 5).Minor
- Vote recorded Do pass. Result: pass.Lower
- Jul 2Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR.Major
- Jul 2From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 15. Noes 0.) (July 1).Major
- Jul 1
- Vote recorded Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations]. Result: pass.Lower
- Jun 22From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on P. & C.P.Major
- Jun 17From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on P. & C.P. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (June 16). Re-referred to Com. on P. & C.P.Minor
- Jun 16
- Vote recorded Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Privacy and Consumer Protection]. Result: pass.Lower
- Jun 10From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on HUM. S.Major
- May 11Referred to Com. on HUM. S.Minor
- Jan 26In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk.Minor
- Vote recorded 3rd Reading. Result: pass.Upper
- Jan 26Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 39. Noes 0. Page 3281.) Ordered to the Assembly.Passed Senate
- Jan 21Read second time. Ordered to third reading.Minor
- Jan 20From committee: Be ordered to second reading pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8.Minor
- Jan 15Set for hearing January 20.
- Jan 14From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 13. Noes 0. Page 3214.) (January 13). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.Minor
- Jan 13From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on JUD. (Ayes 5. Noes 0. Page 3204.) (January 12). Re-referred to Com. on JUD.Minor
- Vote recorded Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations]. Result: pass.Upper
- Jan 12
- Vote recorded Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Judiciary]. Result: pass.Upper
- Jan 8Set for hearing January 13 in JUD. pending receipt.
- Jan 7Set for hearing January 12.
- Jan 5Re-referred to Coms. on HUMAN S. and JUD.Minor
- Jan 5Re-referred to Com. on RLS.Minor
- Jan 5Withdrawn from committee.Major
- Jan 5From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on B. P. & E.D.Major
- 2025
- Apr 28April 28 set for first hearing canceled at the request of author.
- Apr 3Set for hearing April 28.
- Apr 2Re-referred to Com. on B. P. & E.D.Minor
- Mar 24From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on RLS.Major
- Feb 26Referred to Com. on RLS.Minor
- Feb 20From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 22.
- Feb 19Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print.Introduced
HousingAI & Privacy