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SB-522 • 2026

Housing: tenant protections.

Housing: tenant protections.

Housing
Passed Legislature

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

Sponsor
Wahab
Last action
2025-09-10
Official status
Ordered to inactive file on request of Assembly Member Aguiar-Curry.
Effective date
Not listed

Plain English Breakdown

The official source material does not provide specific details about the exact nature of the protections added for tenants after disasters beyond ensuring new housing is subject to tenant protection laws.

Tenant Protections for Housing Damaged in Disasters

This law changes rules about when landlords can evict tenants after a disaster damages their home, ensuring that new housing built to replace damaged homes is subject to tenant protection laws.

What This Bill Does

  • Changes the rules so that new housing built to replace homes damaged by disasters is not exempt from tenant protection laws.

Who It Names or Affects

  • Tenants who live in homes damaged by disasters
  • Landlords who own properties affected by disasters

Terms To Know

Tenant Protection Act of 2019
A law that stops landlords from evicting tenants without a good reason until January 1, 2030.
Certificate of Occupancy
A document saying a building is safe to live in and can be used as housing.

Limits and Unknowns

  • The bill only applies if another related bill, AB 1529, also passes.
  • It does not specify what happens after January 1, 2030, when the current tenant protection rules end.

Bill History

  1. 2025-09-10 California Legislative Information

    Ordered to inactive file on request of Assembly Member Aguiar-Curry.

  2. 2025-09-03 California Legislative Information

    Ordered to third reading.

  3. 2025-09-03 California Legislative Information

    Read third time and amended.

  4. 2025-07-17 California Legislative Information

    Read second time. Ordered to third reading.

  5. 2025-07-16 California Legislative Information

    From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 8. Noes 3.) (July 15).

  6. 2025-07-09 California Legislative Information

    From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on JUD. (Ayes 7. Noes 5.) (July 9). Re-referred to Com. on JUD.

  7. 2025-07-03 California Legislative Information

    Joint Rule 62(a) suspended.

  8. 2025-07-02 California Legislative Information

    July 2 set for first hearing. Held in committee without recommendation.

  9. 2025-06-09 California Legislative Information

    Referred to Coms. on H. & C.D. and JUD.

  10. 2025-06-04 California Legislative Information

    In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk.

  11. 2025-06-03 California Legislative Information

    Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 27. Noes 10. Page 1457.) Ordered to the Assembly.

  12. 2025-04-10 California Legislative Information

    Read second time. Ordered to third reading.

  13. 2025-04-09 California Legislative Information

    Ordered to second reading.

  14. 2025-04-09 California Legislative Information

    Withdrawn from committee.

  15. 2025-04-09 California Legislative Information

    From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on L. GOV. (Ayes 10. Noes 2. Page 706.) (April 8). Re-referred to Com. on L. GOV.

  16. 2025-04-01 California Legislative Information

    Set for hearing April 8.

  17. 2025-03-28 California Legislative Information

    From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on JUD.

  18. 2025-03-19 California Legislative Information

    Referred to Coms. on JUD. and L. GOV.

  19. 2025-02-20 California Legislative Information

    (Corrected February 27).

  20. 2025-02-20 California Legislative Information

    From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 22.

  21. 2025-02-19 California Legislative Information

    Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print.

Official Summary Text

SB 522, as amended, Wahab.
Housing: tenant protections.
Existing law governs the hiring of residential dwelling units. Existing law, the Tenant Protection Act of 2019, prohibits, until January 1, 2030, an owner of residential real property from terminating the tenancy of certain tenants without just cause, either at-fault or no-fault of the tenant. The act exempts certain types of residential real properties from that prohibition, including, among others, housing that has been issued a certificate of occupancy within the previous 15 years.
This bill would exclude housing built to replace a previous housing unit that was subject to the Tenant Protection Act of 2019, was substantially damaged or destroyed by a disaster, as defined, and was issued a certificate of occupancy before that housing unit was substantially damaged or destroyed, from the above-described exemption from the just cause
requirements and rental increase limits.
requirements.
This bill would incorporate additional changes to Section 1946.2 of the Civil Code proposed by AB 1529 to be operative only if this bill and AB 1529 are enacted and this bill is enacted last.

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