Senate advances dozens of bills to floor calendars, flags major housing measure for debate

The State Senate convened and advanced a broad slate of measures from the white sheet to floor calendars on procedural motions Tuesday, moving bills on housing, health care, education, public safety and ceremonial designations ahead for fuller floor debate.

The presiding officer described Senate Bill 6026, which would allow residential development in commercial and mixed‑use zones, as “objectively speaking the single most important housing bill you will all vote upon this legislative session,” and urged support, saying the measure could add more housing units than other proposals combined. That bill was advanced to the floor calendar.

Why it matters: SB 6026 was singled out on the floor as potentially consequential for housing supply and attracted both advocacy support and bipartisan attention; advancing it to the floor sets up further committee time and full Senate debate on the measure’s zoning and housing‑production impacts.

What else moved: The Senate advanced a large package of bills in the procedural package (the “salmon colored” proposed regular calendar), and dozens of individual bills, including: - SB 5496 — a bill described by its sponsor as aimed at limiting large corporate purchases of single‑family homes to support homeownership…