All Roll Calls
Yes: 213 • No: 0
CaliforniaSB 212025-2026 Regular SessionSenateWALLET
Workforce development: poverty-reducing labor standards: funds, programs, reporting, and analyses.
Sponsored By: Maria Elena Durazo (Democratic)
Signed by Governor
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Bill Overview
Analyzed Economic Effects
9 provisions identified: 5 benefits, 2 costs, 2 mixed.
Relocation help and six-month notice
If you live in a protected unit and have a lower income, the developer must pay relocation benefits equal to what a public agency pays. You also get the first chance to rent a comparable, affordable unit in the new or replacement housing. Tenants can stay until six months before construction starts, and must get a written six‑month notice. If demolition does not happen and the unit returns to the market, you can move back at your prior rent.
Unit-for-unit replacement after demolition
Cities and counties cannot approve a project that demolishes homes unless the project builds at least the same number of homes. If protected affordable units were on the site, all of them must be replaced, including any demolished on or after January 1, 2020. The project must match the highest number of homes that existed on the site in the last five years. If the project is not housing, the replacement homes must be built before or at the same time, and can be offsite in the same jurisdiction or by contract with another builder.
Protections and rent caps for single-room renters
Converted single-room units must be rentals at affordable rents for at least 55 years. If you were displaced, you get the first chance to return unless a funder bans it; then you must be offered a comparable alternative. Your first rent back cannot be more than 5% above your prior rent, or no higher than your prior rent if you had paid 40% or more of your income. Later increases cannot push rent above 50% of your household income. Removing an SRO also triggers the higher of state or local relocation payments. If your SRO used department funds, you can be treated as homeless under set rules and cannot be forced to wait for a coordinated‑entry referral to get the unit.
Stronger local rules still apply
Your city or county can keep rules that protect renters more than state law. Stronger local limits on demolition, extra replacement units, or larger relocation payments still stand.
Preserving single-room units in conversions
A city can reduce required replacements when rehabbing SROs if it proves this is needed to create studios or larger units, add bathrooms or kitchens, improve access, or meet safety codes. But a project cannot lose more than 25% of SRO units unless each extra removed unit is replaced one‑for‑one offsite under strict affordability, location, and timing rules. Conversions must finish within four years, with one extra year only for delays outside the developer’s control. Before permits, owners must file a replacement housing plan; the city has 30 days to review. The law defines SROs, studios, bathrooms, and kitchens to apply these rules consistently.
Comparable unit rule for single-family homes
When protected single‑family homes are replaced in a project of two or more units, a comparable unit must match the bedroom count if the original had three or fewer bedrooms. If the original had four or more bedrooms, the comparable unit must have three bedrooms. The rule is about bedrooms, not square footage.
No replacement in some industrial zones
Replacement rules do not apply if all four are true: the project is industrial, the whole site is in a zone that bans homes, that zoning was adopted before January 1, 2022, and the existing homes are nonconforming. In these narrow cases, a city or county can approve the project without replacing protected units.
Market studies for replacement plans
If an agency requires a market study for a replacement‑housing plan, the borrower or developer pays for it. The study must follow California Tax Credit Allocation Committee guidelines. This adds a small cost and sets a common standard.
2019 small-city project exemption
Projects filed after January 1, 2019 and before January 1, 2020 in a city with under 31,000 people that has rent or price control are exempt from these state SRO rules. This is a narrow, one‑year filing window and small‑city carve‑out.
Sponsors & Cosponsors
Sponsor
Maria Elena Durazo
Democratic • Senate
Cosponsors
Catherine Blakespear
Democratic • Senate
Ash Kalra
Democratic • House
Roll Call Votes
Senate vote • 9/9/2025
Item 27 — Senate SFLOOR
Yes: 40 • No: 0
House vote • 9/8/2025
Item 109 — Assembly AFLOOR
Yes: 79 • No: 0
legislature vote • 8/20/2025
Vote in CX25
Yes: 15 • No: 0
legislature vote • 7/16/2025
Vote in CX15
Yes: 10 • No: 0
legislature vote • 7/2/2025
Vote in CX10
Yes: 12 • No: 0
Senate vote • 5/27/2025
Item 213 — Senate SFLOOR
Yes: 39 • No: 0
legislature vote • 4/29/2025
Vote in CS75
Yes: 11 • No: 0
legislature vote • 4/23/2025
Vote in CS82
Yes: 7 • No: 0
Actions Timeline
Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 511, Statutes of 2025.
10/10/2025SenateApproved by the Governor.
10/10/2025legislatureEnrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m.
9/16/2025legislatureAssembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 40. Noes 0. Page 2708.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling.
9/9/2025SenateIn Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
9/8/2025SenateRead third time. Passed. (Ayes 79. Noes 0. Page 2986.) Ordered to the Senate.
9/8/2025HouseOrdered to third reading.
9/4/2025HouseRead third time and amended.
9/4/2025HouseOrdered to third reading.
8/29/2025HouseRead third time and amended.
8/29/2025HouseFrom consent calendar on motion of Assembly Member Garcia.
8/25/2025HouseOrdered to third reading.
8/25/2025HouseRead second time. Ordered to consent calendar.
8/21/2025HouseFrom committee: Do pass. Ordered to consent calendar. (Ayes 15. Noes 0.) (August 20).
8/20/2025HouseFrom committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To consent calendar. (Ayes 10. Noes 0.) (July 16). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
7/17/2025HouseRead second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on L. GOV.
7/7/2025HouseFrom committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on L. GOV. (Ayes 12. Noes 0.) (July 2).
7/3/2025HouseReferred to Coms. on H. & C.D. and L. GOV.
6/5/2025HouseIn Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk.
5/28/2025HouseRead third time. Passed. (Ayes 39. Noes 0. Page 1248.) Ordered to the Assembly.
5/27/2025SenateRead second time. Ordered to third reading.
5/13/2025SenateFrom committee: Be ordered to second reading pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8.
5/12/2025SenateSet for hearing May 12.
5/2/2025SenateFrom committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
5/1/2025SenateFrom committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 11. Noes 0. Page 936.) (April 29). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
4/30/2025Senate
Bill Text
Chaptered
10/10/2025
Enrolled
9/12/2025
Amended Assembly
9/4/2025
Amended Assembly
8/29/2025
Amended Assembly
7/7/2025
Amended Senate
5/1/2025
Amended Senate
3/26/2025
Introduced
12/2/2024