SB 5497: Housing & shelters
Concerning compliance with siting, development permit processes and standards, and requirements for permanent supportive housing, transitional housing, indoor emergency housing, or indoor emergency shelters.
Summary
- Requires a city or county to use an administrative process for reviewing and approving a project permit application for indoor emergency shelters, transitional housing, indoor emergency housing, or permanent supportive housing (STEP housing).
- Requires the Department of Commerce (Commerce) to facilitate the resolution of disputes between a city or county and a project applicant or developer of STEP housing.
- Authorizes Commerce to issue a finding of noncompliance if dispute resolution is unsuccessful and the city or county has denied a project permit or development agreement, or enacted a zoning ordinance or development regulations, that prevent the siting of STEP housing.
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- IntroducedJan 27, 2025
- Out of committeestopped here
- Passed Senate
- Passed House
- Governor
- Law
- Prime sponsor
- Emily Alvarado (D-34)
- Introduced
- January 27, 2025 in the Senate
- Last action
- January 12, 2026
- Companion bill
- HB 1195
- Budget
- Has a fiscal note
AN ACT Relating to compliance with siting, development permit processes and standards, and requirements for permanent supportive housing, transitional housing, indoor emergency housing, or indoor emergency shelters;
Sponsors
Prime sponsor: Emily Alvarado (D-34)
6 co-sponsors (6 Democrats, 0 Republicans)
Votes
No recorded floor votes. This measure never reached a floor vote.
History
- By resolution, reintroduced and retained in present status.
- First reading, referred to Housing.
SB 5497 in other sessions
Bill numbers restart every two years, so the same number is a different bill in each session.
- SB 5497 (2023–24) Medicaid expenditures
- SB 5497 (2021–22) Board of ed. student members
- SB 5497 (2019–20) Immigrants in the workplace
- SB 5497 (2017–18) Personal insurance
- SB 5497 (2015–16) Prof. educator standards brd
- SB 5497 (2013–14) Assaulting school employee
- SB 5497 (2011–12) Manu/mobile home removal
- SB 5497 (2009–10) Telemedicine