If you have a position letter on any bills that have been referred to our committee, please submit them through the Advocates Portal, mail them to our address, or email our committee email as soon as possible. All letters are added to the official bill record.

Please use the link above to submit letters electronically, and refer to the "Position Letters" tab for more information.

The Capitol and O Street building is open for in-person attendance of committee hearings.  Please utilize the teleconference service if you are experiencing any symptoms of COVID-19 or test positive.

The Senate strongly recommends that all members of the public wear a mask in all shared spaces in the Capitol and the 1021 O Street building. Masks are available at all security entrances.

We encourage the public to submit written testimony before the hearing through the position letter portal. Please note that any written testimony submitted to the committee is considered public comment and may be read into the record or reprinted.

Teleconference Instructions:

Information regarding a call-in option for testimony will be made available and updated the night prior to the hearing date.

Senate Committee on Housing call-in information for the June 6 hearing is: 877-226-8163, Access Code: 7362834

Please note: In order for your testimony to be heard clearly, you must mute any devices you are using to live stream the committee hearing prior to calling into the teleconference service. Please do not testify using speakerphone or bluetooth, this can cause acoustic feedback and make it very difficult to hear your testimony. 

• Upon calling in, you will be placed in a “waiting room” where you will be muted but you can listen to the committee hearing as you wait.
• When a committee moves to public comment, a moderator will ask for anyone who is wishing to testify in “Support” or “Opposition” of the bill to please press 1-0.   You should press 1-0 when you are prompted by the moderator. When you press 1-0 on your phone, you will wait and an operator will assign you a line number, at that time you will be placed in the queue for identification.  Remember your line number, the moderator will call out that number to identify YOU when it is your turn to testify.  OF IMPORTANT NOTE: If you press 1-0 a second time, you will remove yourself from the queue and you will not be identified to testify. Every time you press 1-0 you either put yourself “In queue” or take yourself “out of queue” so listen carefully, and press 1-0 only once when you are prompted by the moderator.
• When you are successfully in the queue, with your assigned line number, the moderator will call out your line number, open your line, and at that time you may address the committee. You must have your own phone unmuted before you begin testimony.

A more detailed explanation of the teleconference instructions can be found by clicking the “Teleconference Instructions”

JURISDICTION:  Bills relating to housing, including those that affect state housing funding programs for low- and moderate-income families, homelessness, housing elements and land use approvals for housing developments, housing successor agencies and the housing obligations of local financing districts, manufactured housing, building codes and standards, and common interest developments.

The Senate Housing Committee meets the 1st, 3rd, and 5th Tuesdays of the month at 1:30pm. Please check the Daily File and Bill Hearings tab more more information or any changes.

Members:

Senator Scott D. Wiener (Chair)
Senator Rosilicie Ochoa Bogh (Vice Chair)
Senator Catherine Blakespear
Senator Anna M. Caballero
Senator Dave Cortese
Senator Mike McGuire
Senator Steve Padilla
Senator Kelly Seyarto
Senator Nancy Skinner
Senator Thomas J. Umberg
Senator Aisha Wahab