HB 2085: Concerning temporary emergency shelters

HB 2085 allows counties and cities, including code cities, to adopt ordinances or take other action to regulate the creation of temporary emergency shelter communities. These counties and cities must allow a sponsor or managing agency to apply for a land use permit application to provide temporary emergency shelter and basic needs services, and the sponsor or managing agency must prepare and file a temporary emergency shelter community responsibility plan. Counties and cities may terminate agreements with agencies if the temporary emergency shelter community poses serious and documented threats to the health and well-being of the surrounding community. This bill does not apply to the hosting of unhoused people on property owned or controlled by a religious organization. Additionally, the bill states that the State Building Code Council shall adopt standards for temporary emergency shelters.