BILL · 2021–22 SESSION

SB 5954: Homelessness

Reducing the impacts and incidences of chronic and unsheltered homelessness.

Summary

Requires the state's annual homeless census to include persons in jails or hospitals who were homeless before entering such facilities.
Provides a business and occupation and public utility tax credit to qualifying businesses hiring certain unemployed persons, such as persons convicted of a felony and homeless persons.
Modifies criminal penalties for knowing possession of certain controlled and counterfeit substances.
Expands eligibility under the consolidated emergency assistance program.
Prohibits counties from receiving their portion of homeless housing and assistance surcharge revenue if certain conditions are not met.
Appropriates general fund moneys for homeless encampment cleanup, drug court services and programs, permanent housing solutions for unsheltered youth and families, and emergency assistance and diversion cash assistance programs.

From the Senate Bill Report (SB 5954), written by the Legislature's nonpartisan staff. Read the full report ↗

Did not pass Did not pass · died in committee

AN ACT Relating to reducing the impacts and incidences of chronic and unsheltered homelessness;

No recorded floor votes. This measure never reached a floor vote.

Bill numbers restart every two years, so the same number is a different bill in each session.

SB 5954 (2025–26) Vet. survivor tuition waiver · Did not pass · stalled on the Senate floor
SB 5954 (2023–24) Aerial imagery program · Did not pass · died in committee
SB 5954 (2019–20) Bump-fire stock buy-back prg · Enacted · Chapter 9, Laws of 2019
SB 5954 (2017–18) GMA economic dev. element · Did not pass · died in committee
SB 5954 (2015–16) Reducing tuition · Enacted · Chapter 36, Laws of 2015, 3rd Special Session
SB 5954 (2013–14) Industrial hemp · Did not pass · died in committee
SB 5954 (2011–12) Synthetic cannabimimetics · Did not pass · died in committee
SB 5954 (2009–10) Community facility districts · Did not pass · died in committee