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Votes at a glance — Senate Housing Committee (April 24, 2025)
Summary
Roll‑call and committee actions from the Senate Housing Committee hearing on April 24, 2025. Several bills were advanced for further committee review after debate and stakeholder negotiations.
The Senate Housing Committee recorded multiple roll‑call decisions and placed several bills on call for follow‑up. Below is a concise list of the bills the committee considered in this hearing and their committee outcomes as recorded in the hearing log. This list includes bills discussed in depth in separate articles above.
Votes at a glance (committee action recorded at the hearing):
- SB 16 (Blake Spear): Amendments accepted by the committee; author agreed to amended language focusing on “unsheltered” homelessness; committee deferred final tally pending quorum (action: amendments accepted / postponed to future roll call).
- SB 79 (Wiener): Discussion held; bill advanced to local government committee with recorded roll‑call and placed on call for further consideration; numerous stakeholders testified for and against (action: moved with further negotiations expected).
- SB 677 (Weiner): Heard and placed on call for further amendment discussions; owner‑occupancy and impact fee language to be revised before final roll call (action: on call / negotiations ongoing).
- SB 543 (McNerney) and SB 625 (Wahab) and other consent items: Committee moved several consent and technical bills forward (action: passed to relevant committees as shown on the committee record).
- SB 749 (Allen): Advanced to Judiciary Committee on a recorded roll call (documented committee tally reported in hearing transcript; members voted with documented yes/no counts).
- SB 770 (Allen): Discussed; no final committee vote recorded at that hearing; author will continue stakeholder conversations on insurance and HOA language (action: stakeholder work expected).
- SB 750 / SB 7 50 (Cortese) — California Housing Finance and Credit Act: Moved to Judiciary committee (action: motion passed with roll call; bill will be subject to further constitutional and ballot‑measure coordination before implementation).
- SB 502 (Ergin): Allowed LEA excess site submissions to HCD/DGS for educator housing pipeline; bill advanced with agreed committee amendments to prioritize employee access if developed (action: passed to Education Committee).
A note on procedure and next steps: Committee motions, roll calls and “on call” statuses were recorded in the transcript. Several bills were advanced with the understanding the authors will return with technical amendments to address stakeholder issues (labor standards, affordability requirements, surplus‑land treatment, owner‑occupancy language, impact fees, and insurance language for EV chargers). Those amendments are expected to be filed before the next committee votes.
