Bill Text: CA AB3164 | 2023-2024 | Regular Session | Introduced

California Assembly Bill 3164

Introduced

Bill Title: Housing.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-02-17 - From printer. May be heard in committee March 18. [AB3164 Detail]

Download: California-2023-AB3164-Introduced.html

CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE— 2023–2024 REGULAR SESSION

Assembly Bill

No. 3164

Introduced by Assembly Member Jones-Sawyer

February 16, 2024

An act to amend Section 50001 of the Health and Safety Code, relating to housing.

LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST

AB 3164, as introduced, Jones-Sawyer. Housing.

Existing law, the Zenovich-Moscone-Chacon Housing and Home Finance Act, states that the Legislature finds and declares that the subject of housing is of vital statewide importance to the health, safety, and welfare of the residents of the state for specified reasons.

This bill would make a nonsubstantive change to those provisions.

Vote: MAJORITY Appropriation: NO Fiscal Committee: NO Local Program: NO

The people of the State of California do enact as follows:

SECTION 1.

Section 50001 of the Health and Safety Code is amended to read:

50001.

The Legislature finds and declares that the subject of housing is of vital statewide importance to the health, safety, and welfare of the residents of this state, for all of the following reasons:

(a) Decent housing is an essential motivating force in helping people achieve self-fulfillment in a free and democratic society.

(b) Unsanitary, unsafe, overcrowded, or congested dwelling accommodations or lack of decent housing constitute conditions which cause an increase in, and spread of, disease and crime.

(c) A healthy housing market is one in which residents of this state have a choice of housing opportunities and one in which the housing consumer may effectively choose within the free marketplace.

(d) A healthy housing market is necessary both to achieve a healthy state economy and to avoid an unacceptable level of unemployment.