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SB-841 • 2026

Immigration enforcement.

Immigration enforcement.

Crime Education Housing Labor
Passed Legislature

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

Sponsor
Rubio
Last action
2025-09-09
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 on costs or future actions by the governor.

Keep Safe Spaces Safe Act

The Keep Safe Spaces Safe Act stops certain employees from letting immigration officers into nonpublic areas of shelters and centers without proper legal permission.

What This Bill Does

  • It prohibits, to the extent possible, an employee of a homeless shelter, rape crisis center, domestic violence shelter, family justice center, or human trafficking service provider from allowing access to the nonpublic areas of those facilities for immigration enforcement activity unless required by state or federal law and specified criteria are met, including a valid judicial warrant.

Who It Names or Affects

  • Workers at homeless shelters, rape crisis centers, domestic violence shelters, family justice centers, and human trafficking service providers.

Terms To Know

Immigration enforcement activity
Actions taken by immigration officers to enforce laws related to who can enter or stay in the country.
Nonpublic areas
Parts of buildings that are not open to everyone, like private offices or living spaces.

Limits and Unknowns

  • The bill does not specify how much it will cost local agencies.
  • It is unclear if the bill will be signed into law by the governor after passing both chambers of the legislature.

Bill History

  1. 2025-09-09 California Legislative Information

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

  2. 2025-08-21 California Legislative Information

    Read second time. Ordered to third reading.

  3. 2025-08-20 California Legislative Information

    From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 12. Noes 0.) (August 20).

  4. 2025-07-16 California Legislative Information

    From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (July 15). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.

  5. 2025-07-16 California Legislative Information

    Coauthors revised.

  6. 2025-06-24 California Legislative Information

    From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on PUB. S. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.) (June 24). Re-referred to Com. on PUB. S.

  7. 2025-06-19 California Legislative Information

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

  8. 2025-06-12 California Legislative Information

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

  9. 2025-06-09 California Legislative Information

    Referred to Coms. on JUD. and PUB. S.

  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 31. Noes 0. Page 1463.) Ordered to the Assembly.

  12. 2025-05-13 California Legislative Information

    Read second time. Ordered to third reading.

  13. 2025-05-12 California Legislative Information

    From committee: Be ordered to second reading pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8.

  14. 2025-05-02 California Legislative Information

    Set for hearing May 12.

  15. 2025-04-30 California Legislative Information

    From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 5. Noes 0. Page 946.) (April 29). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.

  16. 2025-04-23 California Legislative Information

    From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on PUB. S. (Ayes 11. Noes 0. Page 838.) (April 22). Re-referred to Com. on PUB. S.

  17. 2025-04-11 California Legislative Information

    Set for hearing April 29 in PUB. S. pending receipt.

  18. 2025-04-10 California Legislative Information

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

  19. 2025-04-10 California Legislative Information

    Set for hearing April 22.

  20. 2025-04-02 California Legislative Information

    Re-referred to Coms. on JUD. and PUB. S.

  21. 2025-03-26 California Legislative Information

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

  22. 2025-03-12 California Legislative Information

    Referred to Com. on RLS.

  23. 2025-02-24 California Legislative Information

    Read first time.

  24. 2025-02-24 California Legislative Information

    From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 24.

  25. 2025-02-21 California Legislative Information

    Introduced. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print.

Official Summary Text

SB 841, as amended, Rubio.
Immigration enforcement.
The State Housing Law, among other things, requires the Department of Housing and Community Development to adopt, amend, or repeal rules and regulations for the protection of the health, safety, and general welfare of the occupant and the public relating to specified residential structures. Existing law provides for the inspection of homeless shelters and makes a violation of these provisions a crime.
Existing law requires the Office of Emergency Services to, in collaboration with an advisory committee, administer sexual assault/rape crisis center victim services programs and provide grants to proposed and existing sexual assault services programs that are operating a local rape victim center.
Existing law generally makes a violation of the Penal Code a misdemeanor.
Existing law requires domestic violence shelter-based program staff to work with social service agencies, schools, and law enforcement agencies in an advocacy capacity.
This bill, the Keep Safe Spaces Safe Act, would prohibit, to the extent possible, an employee of a homeless shelter, rape crisis center, domestic violence shelter, family justice center, or human trafficking service provider from allowing access to the nonpublic areas of those facilities, except as required by state or federal law, for immigration enforcement activity, as defined, unless specified criteria are met, including a valid judicial warrant.
This bill would provide that its provisions
are severable.
By creating a new crime, this bill would
impose a state-mandated local program.
The California Constitution requires the state to reimburse local agencies and school districts for certain costs mandated by the state. Statutory provisions establish procedures for making that reimbursement.
This bill would provide that no reimbursement is required by this act for a specified reason.

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