Bill Text: CA AB670 | 2023-2024 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Housing.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Failed) 2024-02-01 - Died at Desk. [AB670 Detail]

Download: California-2023-AB670-Introduced.html

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CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE— 2023–2024 REGULAR SESSION

Assembly Bill

No. 670

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Introduced by Assembly Member Wilson

February 13, 2023

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An act to amend Section 50464 of the Health and Safety Code, relating to housing.

LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST

AB 670, as introduced, Wilson. Housing.

Existing law authorizes the Department of Housing and Community Development to take specified actions related to housing that include, among other things, investigating housing and community development in the state, calling conferences to discuss housing and community development problems, studying the operation and enforcement of housing, building, zoning, and subdivision laws, as related to housing and community development, and promoting the formation of organizations intended to increase the supply of adequate housing and the proper living environment for people.

This bill would make a nonsubstantive change in that provision.

Digest Key

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

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Bill Text

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

SECTION 1.

 Section 50464 of the Health and Safety Code is amended to read:

50464.

 The department may: may do the following:

(a)  Make investigations of housing and community development in California.

(b)  Call conferences of representatives of all levels of government, industry, and private groups, to discuss housing and community development problems of California.

(c)  Investigate and report upon substandard housing and the problems resulting therefrom and the work being done to remedy such conditions.

(d)  Study the operation and enforcement of housing, building, zoning, and subdivision laws and regulations, of housing finance, taxes, redevelopment programs and public housing projects, as related to housing and community development.

(e)  Examine the records of housing authorities and redevelopment agencies, and secure from them reports and copies of their records at any time.

(f)  Promote the formation of organizations intended to increase the supply of adequate housing and the proper living environment for all the people of the state.

(g)  With the Department of Transportation, investigate and report upon the consistency between state, local, and federal housing plans and programs and state, local, and federal transportation plans and programs.