AB-262 • 2026

California Housing and Homelessness Agency: PINK Alert.

Budget Housing

Passed Legislature

This bill passed both chambers and reached final enrollment, even if later executive action is not shown here.

Sponsor: Caloza
Last action: 2026-06-03
Official status: Re-referred to Com. on HUMAN S.
Effective date: Not listed

Plain English Breakdown

The effectiveness of the PINK Alert and disaster assistance grants depends on proper implementation, which is an open question.

California Housing and Homelessness Agency: PINK Alert

AB-262 requires the California Housing and Homelessness Agency to study issues affecting pregnant people experiencing homelessness, recommend a PINK Alert system for nonprofits to join in providing emergency housing and prenatal services alerts, and establish a grant program for disaster assistance.

What This Bill Does

Requires the California Housing and Homelessness Agency to conduct a study on problems faced by pregnant women without homes and report findings with recommendations to the Legislature by July 1, 2028.
Asks the agency to recommend how to set up a PINK Alert system that nonprofits can join to get alerts about pregnant people needing help with housing or prenatal care.
Creates a grant program for financial aid during disasters, focusing on those who cannot receive federal funding due to damage thresholds.

Who It Names or Affects

The California Housing and Homelessness Agency
Nonprofits working with pregnant people experiencing homelessness
Local agencies, community-based organizations, and individuals affected by disasters

Terms To Know

PINK Alert: A system that sends alerts to nonprofits about pregnant people needing emergency housing or prenatal services.
Disaster Assistance Act: A law that provides financial help during emergencies for local agencies and their costs related to disaster response.

Limits and Unknowns

The bill does not specify how much money will be available for the PINK Alert system.
It is unclear if the grant program will receive enough funding from the Legislature.

Bill History

2026-06-03 California Legislative Information
Re-referred to Com. on HUMAN S.
2026-05-27 California Legislative Information
From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on RLS.
2026-04-27 California Legislative Information
Re-referred to Com. on RLS.
2026-04-27 California Legislative Information
Withdrawn from committee.
2025-06-11 California Legislative Information
Referred to Com. on G.O.
2025-06-03 California Legislative Information
In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment.
2025-06-02 California Legislative Information
Read third time. Urgency clause adopted. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 63. Noes 11. Page 1847.).
2025-05-27 California Legislative Information
Read second time. Ordered to third reading.
2025-05-23 California Legislative Information
Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading.
2025-05-23 California Legislative Information
From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 11. Noes 3.) (May 23).
2025-05-23 California Legislative Information
Assembly Rule 63 suspended. (Ayes 51. Noes 16. Page 1644.)
2025-04-30 California Legislative Information
In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to suspense file.
2025-04-23 California Legislative Information
In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
2025-04-08 California Legislative Information
From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 5. Noes 2.) (April 7). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
2025-04-07 California Legislative Information
Re-referred to Com. on E.M.
2025-04-03 California Legislative Information
From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on E.M. Read second time and amended.
2025-02-10 California Legislative Information
Referred to Com. on E.M.
2025-01-17 California Legislative Information
From printer. May be heard in committee February 16.
2025-01-16 California Legislative Information
Read first time. To print.

Official Summary Text

AB 262, as amended, Caloza.
California Individual Assistance Act.
California Housing and Homelessness Agency: PINK Alert.
Existing law, the Governor’s Reorganization Plan No. 1 of 2025, beginning July 1, 2026, eliminates the Business, Consumer Services, and Housing Agency and instead establishes the Business and Consumer Services Agency and the California Housing and Homelessness Agency (agency). Existing law requires the agency to coordinate with the California Health and Human Services Agency and the California Consumer Protection Agency on various state policies, including housing.
This bill would require the agency to create a study on issues impacting pregnant people experiencing homelessness and report the results of the study, as well as recommendations to establish a
PINK Alert, to the Legislature by July 1, 2028. The bill would require the recommendations to include how the PINK Alert can meet specified conditions, including that it be a system that nonprofits can opt in to in order to get notifications if there is a pregnant person in need of emergency housing or prenatal services.
Existing law, the California Disaster Assistance Act, requires the Director of Emergency Services to provide financial assistance to local agencies for their personnel costs, equipment costs, and the cost of supplies and materials used during disaster response activities, incurred as a result of a state of emergency proclaimed by the Governor, subject to specified criteria. The act continuously appropriates moneys in the Disaster Assistance Fund and its subsidiary account, the Earthquake Emergency Investigations Account, without regard to fiscal year, for purposes of the act.
This bill would enact the California Individual Assistance Act to establish a grant program to provide financial assistance, upon appropriation by the Legislature, to local agencies, community-based organizations, and individuals for specified costs related to a disaster,
as prescribed. The bill would require the director to allocate from the fund, subject to specified conditions, funds to meet the cost of expenses for those purposes. The bill would require the director, in administering the California Individual Assistance Act, to prioritize recipients that are not eligible for federal funding, pursuant to specified regulation, due to the inability to meet minimum damage thresholds.
This bill would require the director to adopt regulations, as determined to be necessary, to govern the administration of the program.
This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as an urgency statute.

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