Official Text and Analysis.

Exempts permit actions to site a temporary shelter or transitional encampment for people experiencing homelessness from State Environmental Policy Act requirements.

Adds that the temporary shelter or encampment must be located within a county with a population of at least two million people for the state environmental policy act exemption to apply..

Prohibits a temporary shelter or transitional encampment from being exempt from the state environmental policy act if it is located in a neighborhood with a significant number of low-income households; defines low-income as less than eighty percent of the median family adjusted income for the local city or county.

Adds that to qualify for the state environmental policy act exemption, a temporary shelter or transitional encampment may not be sited within 1,000 feet of a public or private school or early learning facility unless approved by the school or early learning facility or its affiliate organization.

Adds that a local jurisdiction must have declared a state of emergency on homelessness for a facility to qualify for an exemption from the state environmental policy act.

Adds that a facility must not allow the use of drugs or alcohol on its premises, except for medicines a sheltered individual has been prescribed by a licensed prescriber, as an additional standard that a facility must meet to qualify for an exemption from the state environmental policy act.

Exempts permit actions to site a temporary shelter or transitional encampment for people experiencing homelessness from State Environmental Policy Act requirements.