Jacqui Irwin
- Democratic
- Assemblymember
- District 42
Author
Existing law establishes the Multifamily Housing Program administered by the Department of Housing and Community Development. Existing law requires assistance for projects under the program to be provided in the form of deferred payment loans to pay for eligible costs of specified types of development, as provided. Existing law requires that specified funds appropriated to provide housing for individuals and families who are experiencing homelessness or who are at risk of homelessness and who are inherently impacted by or at increased risk for medical diseases or conditions due to the COVID-19 pandemic or other communicable diseases be disbursed in accordance with the Multifamily Housing Program for specified uses. The California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) requires a lead agency, as defined, to prepare, or cause to be prepared, and certify the completion of, an environmental impact report on a project that it proposes to carry out or approve that may have a significant effect on the environment or to adopt a negative declaration if it finds that the project will not have that effect. CEQA does not apply to the approval of ministerial projects. Existing law, until July 1, 2024, exempts from CEQA a project funded to provide housing for individuals and families who are experiencing homelessness, as described above, if certain requirements are satisfied, including if the project proponent obtains an enforceable commitment to use a skilled and trained workforce for any proposed rehabilitation, construction, or major alterations, as specified. This bill would provide that projects funded by the Behavioral Health Infrastructure Bond Act of 2024 that provide housing for individuals and families who are experiencing homelessness or who are at risk of homelessness and who are inherently impacted by or at increased risk for medical diseases or conditions due to the COVID-19 pandemic or other communicable diseases and are disbursed in accordance with the Multifamily Housing Program, or projects that are disbursed in accordance with the Behavioral Health Continuum Infrastructure Program, are a use by right and subject to the streamlined, ministerial review process. The bill would define use by right for these purposes to mean that the local government's review of the project does not require a conditional use permit, planned unit development permit, or other discretionary local government review or approval that would constitute a project subject to the approval process in CEQA. Because the bill would revise the approval process of specified projects, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program. Existing law authorizes the State Department of Health Care Services to, subject to an appropriation, establish a Behavioral Health Continuum Infrastructure Program to award grants as specified for the construction, acquisition, and rehabilitation of behavioral health treatment resources, as described. Existing law repeals this program on January 1, 2027. This bill would continue that program indefinitely. Existing law, the Bronzan-McCorquodale Act, contains provisions governing the operation and financing of community mental health services in every county through locally administered and locally controlled community mental health programs. Existing law, the Mental Health Services Act (MHSA) , an initiative measure enacted by the voters as Proposition 63 in the November 2, 2004, statewide general election, establishes the Mental Health Services Fund to fund various county mental health programs. This bill would enact the Behavioral Health Infrastructure Bond Act of 2024 which, if approved by the voters, would authorize the issuance of bonds in the amount of $6,380,000,000 to finance loans or grants for the acquisition of capital assets for the conversion, rehabilitation, or new construction of permanent supportive housing for veterans and others who are homeless and meet specified criteria, and for grants for the Behavioral Health Continuum Infrastructure Program, as specified. The California Constitution requires the state to reimburse local agencies and school districts for certain costs mandated by the state. Statutory provisions establish procedures for making that reimbursement. This bill would provide that no reimbursement is required by this act for a specified reason. The bill would provide for the submission of specified sections of this bill and SB 326 to the voters at the March 5, 2024, statewide primary election.
Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 789, Statutes of 2023.
Approved by the Governor.
Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3:30 p.m.
Joint Rule 62(a), file notice suspended. (Page 3587.)
Re-referred to Com. on H. & C.D. pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.2.
In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending.
Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 35. Noes 2. Page 2779.).
Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 66. Noes 8. Page 3608.).
From committee: That the Senate amendments be concurred in. (Ayes 6. Noes 2.) (September 14).
Read second time. Ordered to third reading.
Joint Rule 61(a)(13) suspended. (Ayes 31. Noes 8. Page 2607.)
Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading.
Read second time. Ordered to third reading.
Read second time. Ordered to third reading.
Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading.
From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 5. Noes 2.) (September 1).
In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 6. Noes 2.) (July 12). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on GOV. & F. (Ayes 10. Noes 1.) (July 10). Re-referred to Com. on GOV. & F.
Re-referred to Coms. on HOUSING and GOV. & F.
Withdrawn from committee.
In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on HOUSING.
In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment.
Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 80. Noes 0. Page 1918.)
From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 15. Noes 0.) (May 18).
Read second time. Ordered to third reading.
In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to APPR. suspense file.
From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 11. Noes 0.) (April 18). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
Coauthors revised.
Coauthors revised.
From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on M. & V.A. (Ayes 8. Noes 0.) (March 29). Re-referred to Com. on M. & V.A.
Referred to Coms. on H. & C.D. and M. & V.A.
From printer. May be heard in committee March 11.
Read first time. To print.
| Bill Text Versions | Format |
|---|---|
| AB531 | HTML |
| 02/08/23 - Introduced | |
| 06/19/23 - Amended Senate | |
| 09/05/23 - Amended Senate | |
| 09/11/23 - Amended Senate | |
| 09/18/23 - Enrolled | |
| 10/12/23 - Chaptered |
| Document | Format |
|---|---|
| 03/26/23- Assembly Housing and Community Development | |
| 04/17/23- Assembly Military and Veterans Affairs | |
| 05/01/23- Assembly Appropriations | |
| 05/19/23- ASSEMBLY FLOOR ANALYSIS | |
| 06/15/23- Senate Housing | |
| 07/06/23- Senate Housing | |
| 07/11/23- Senate Governance and Finance | |
| 08/27/23- Senate Appropriations | |
| 09/02/23- Sen. Floor Analyses | |
| 09/06/23- Sen. Floor Analyses | |
| 09/12/23- Sen. Floor Analyses | |
| 09/14/23- ASSEMBLY FLOOR ANALYSIS | |
| 09/14/23- Assembly Housing and Community Development |
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