BILL ANALYSIS
SENATE TRANSPORTATION & HOUSING COMMITTEE BILL NO: SB 1392
SENATOR ALAN LOWENTHAL, CHAIRMAN AUTHOR: Steinberg
VERSION:
4/12/2010
Analysis by: Mark Stivers FISCAL: Yes
Hearing date: April 20, 2010
SUBJECT:
Department of Housing and Community Development reporting
requirements
DESCRIPTION:
This bill requires the Department of Housing and Community
Development (HCD) to include in its annual report for each
Proposition 1C program the amount of funds it awarded and
encumbered in the prior year.
ANALYSIS:
Current law requires HCD to submit an annual report to the
governor and both houses of the Legislature detailing the
operations and accomplishments of the housing programs it
administered in the previous fiscal year. This report must
include:
The number of units assisted by HCD programs.
The number of individuals and households served and
their income levels.
The distribution of units among various areas of the
state.
The amount of other public and private funds leveraged.
The extent to which the special housing needs of various
groups were met.
Information on the activities of local agencies to
enforce the Employee Housing Act, which requires the
inspection of employee-owned housing.
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The Housing and Emergency Shelter Trust Fund Act of 2006
(Proposition 1C), SB 1689 (Perata), Chapter 27, Statutes of
2006, authorized the issuance of $2.85 billion in general
obligation bonds to finance various existing and new housing
programs. For most but not all of the programs funded by
Proposition 1C, the statute requires HCD to include in its
annual report information on how awardees expended bond funds
that HCD made available and allocated in the prior year.
Because of a drafting issue, the statute does not require HCD to
report this information for those programs that the Legislature
amended into SB 1689 late in the process, namely the Infill
Infrastructure Grant Program, the Transit-Oriented Development
Housing Program, and the Housing-Related Parks Program.
This bill requires HCD to include in its annual report the
following information for all of its Proposition 1C programs:
The amount of funds it made available and awarded in the prior
year.
The amount of funds it encumbered in the prior year.
COMMENTS:
1.Purpose of the bill . Current law does not require HCD to
report on its specific activities for three of the biggest
Proposition 1C programs: the Infill Infrastructure Grant
Program, the Transit-Oriented Development Housing Program, and
the Housing-Related Parks Program. This bill ensures that HCD
reports on these programs and requires that HCD include
information on both the amount of funds awarded and the amount
of funds disbursed in the prior year on a per-project and
aggregate basis for each program. This allows the Legislature
and the public to better track the flow of Proposition 1C bond
funds to construction projects.
2.Technical amendments . In order to clarify the author's
intent, page 6 lines 38-39 and page 7 lines 1-4 should be
amended to read as follows:
(e)(1) In its annual report to the Legislature, the
department shall include for each program it administers
with funds pursuant to this section all of the following
information:
(A) The amount of funds that were awarded in the
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prior year on a per-project and aggregate basis.
(B) The amount of funds that were disbursed in the
prior year on a per-project and aggregate basis.
3.Chaptering conflict . Both this bill and AB 2762 (Housing and
Community Development Committee) amend Section 53545 of the
Health and Safety Code. At some point in the process, the
authors will need to incorporate chaptering amendments into
each bill.
RELATED LEGISLATION
SB 608 (Ducheny) requires HCD to include in its annual report
cumulative information across years on programs funded under the
Housing and Emergency Shelter Trust Fund Acts of 2002 and 2006.
On the Assembly inactive file.
POSITIONS: (Communicated to the Committee before noon on
Wednesday,
April 14, 2010)
SUPPORT: None received.
OPPOSED: None received.