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                   Senate Appropriations Committee Fiscal Summary
                           Senator Christine Kehoe, Chair

                                           951 (Correa)
          
          Hearing Date:  04/26/2010           Amended: As Introduced
          Consultant: Mark McKenzie       Policy Vote: T&H 7-1
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          BILL SUMMARY:   SB 951 would extend the Mobilehome Park  
          Maintenance Inspection (MPMI) Program and the $4 fee imposed on  
          mobilehome park owners to support the program from January 1,  
          2012 until January 1, 2017.  This bill would also require the  
          Department of Housing and Community Development (HCD) to report  
          additional information about the operation of the program in  
          their semiannual report, as specified.
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                            Fiscal Impact (in thousands)

           Major Provisions         2010-11      2011-12       2012-13     Fund
           MPM inspection program            $500        $1,000    Special*
                                              (Program costs funded by  
          fees)
          HCD report             minor, absorbable costs          Special*
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          Mobilehome Park Revolving Fund (funding level based on revenue  
          from fees)
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          STAFF COMMENTS: 
          
          Under existing law, the Mobilehome Parks Act requires HCD or a  
          local enforcement agency to inspect mobilehome parks that have  
          had the most serious history of health and safety code  
          violations, or complaints regarding these violations, with a  
          goal of inspecting five percent of the parks each year.  HCD or  
          a local enforcement agency collects a per- space fee of $4  
          annually from mobilehome park owners to fund the program.  A  
          park owner may charge half of that amount to individual  
          mobilehome owners.  The MPMI program is scheduled to sunset on  
          January 1, 2012.    Existing law also requires HCD to convene a  
          semiannual task force comprised of specified mobilehome groups  
          and legislative representatives to provide input on the conduct  
          and operation of the inspection program.  HCD reports that tens  










          of thousands of health and safety code violations have been  
          cited and remedied since 1991.

          SB 951 would extend the operation of the MPMI program and the  
          related $4 annual fee for an additional five years, from January  
          1, 2012 to January 1, 2017.  This bill would also require HCD to  
          submit additional information to the task force on violations  
          issued to mobilehome owners and park owners, and recommendations  
          for statutory or administrative changes to the program to the  
          task force in a semiannual written report.

          HCD indicates that the inspection program has exceeded the goal  
          of inspecting at least five percent of the parks in recent  
          years, which suggests that the $4 fee is currently adequate to  
          cover MPMI program costs.
          
          Staff notes that AB 1964 (Torres), which is pending before the  
          Assembly Appropriations Committee, would extend the MPMI program  
          until January 1, 2019.