BILL ANALYSIS Ó
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Date of Hearing: June 19, 2013
ASSEMBLY COMMITTEE ON HOUSING AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT
Ed Chau, Chair
SB 745 (Committee on Transportation and Housing) - As Amended:
June 11, 2013
SENATE VOTE : 35-0
SUBJECT : Housing.
SUMMARY : Makes technical and non-controversial changes to
various sections of the law dealing with housing. Specifically,
this bill :
1)Corrects the term "commercial residential real property" to
instead read "commercial real property," the term that is
defined and used throughout the rest of the relevant Article,
in the section of the law that requires the retrofitting of
existing toilets, urinals, shower fixtures, and faucets with
water conserving plumbing fixtures on certain dates depending
on the type of structure.
2)Makes various clean-up changes related to AB 805 and AB 806
(Torres), Chapters 180 and 181 of 2012, which reorganized and
recodified the Davis-Stirling Common Interest Development Act.
This bill addresses chaptering issues, corrects an erroneous
cross-reference, and restores two sections that were
inadvertently omitted from the recodified Davis-Stirling Act.
3)Removes an outdated reference to the National Electrical Code
it a section of law relating to telephone wiring and replaces
it with a reference to the California Electrical Code, which
is the applicable code in California.
4)Adds the currently required notice of rental restrictions to a
form that lists all the documents that an owner in a common
interest development who wishes to sell his or her unit must
provide to the buyer.
5)Removes cross-references in Government Code Section 65822,
which is often referred to as the SB 2 requirements, to the
definitions of "supportive housing" and "transitional housing"
in the statutes governing the Multifamily Housing Program
(MHP) and replaces them with the current definition of
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transitional housing and the definition of supportive housing
that was applicable at the time that SB 2 (Cedillo), Chapter
633, Statutes of 2007, passed.
6)Repeals an obsolete section of law that provides that
communities that self-certified their housing elements under a
now-expired pilot program are fully eligible to participate in
any program funded through the Housing and Emergency Shelter
Trust Fund Act of 2002 (Proposition 46) that requires the
community to have a housing element that the Department of
Housing and Community Development (HCD) has found
substantially complies with the requirements of the law.
7)Repeals the section of the law that established a pilot
program that allowed communities in San Diego County to
self-certify their housing elements if they had met or
exceeded locally generated affordable housing goals from the
previous housing element cycle. The pilot program ended in
2010 and the authorizing statute sunset in 2011.
8)Makes a variety of clean-up changes based on input from the
State Fire Marshall related to SB 1394, Chapter 420, Statutes
of 2012, which made a variety of changes to the law with
respect to requirements around smoke alarm and carbon monoxide
detectors. This bill removes the end-of-life feature
requirement on all smoke alarms; extends until January 1,
2015, the requirements for all smoke alarms to display the
date of manufacture, provide a place on the device where the
date of installation can be written, and incorporate a hush
feature; extends until July 1, 2014, the compliance date by
which battery-operated smoke alarms must contain a
nonreplaceable, nonremovable battery that is capable of
powering the smoke alarm for at least 10 years; allows
suppliers to sell battery-operated smoke alarms without
10-year batteries if they were on order or in inventory before
July 1, 2015; and removes the Fire Marshal's authority to
extend these deadlines by six months.
9)Updates a mistaken cross-reference in the statutes governing
the supportive housing component of HCD's Multifamily Housing
Program (MHP-SH).
EXISTING LAW includes numerous provisions related to housing.
FISCAL EFFECT : None
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COMMENTS :
The Senate Committee on Transportation and Housing is authoring
this year's housing omnibus bill as a cost-effective way of
making a number of minor, non-controversial changes to statute
at one time. There is no known opposition to any of the items
in the bill. If issues arise that cannot be resolved, the
provision of concern will be deleted from the bill.
REGISTERED SUPPORT / OPPOSITION :
Support
National Electrical Manufacturers Association
Opposition
None on file
Analysis Prepared by : Anya Lawler / H. & C.D. / (916)
319-2085