BILL ANALYSIS Ó
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Date of Hearing: August 3, 2016
ASSEMBLY COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS
Lorena Gonzalez, Chair
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(Committee on Transportation and Housing) - As Amended August 1,
2016
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| |Judiciary | |10 - 0 |
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Urgency: No State Mandated Local Program: NoReimbursable: No
SUMMARY:
This bill is the Senate Transportation and Housing Committee's
housing omnibus bill which makes various non-controversial
changes to sections of law relating to housing.
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FISCAL EFFECT:
1)Unknown cost pressures related to the expansion of allowable
uses for Mobilehome Park Rehabilitation and Resident Ownership
Program (MPRROP) funds. Authorizing loans for replacement of
a low-income homeowner's mobilehome is not likely to have a
significant impact on available funding.
2)Minor costs to the Department of Housing and Community
Development (HCD) to revise MPRROP regulations to provide for
mobilehome replacement loans.
3)The remaining provisions are not expected to have a
significant state fiscal impact.
COMMENTS:
Purpose. The purpose of the omnibus bill is to increase the
efficiency of the legislative process, conserve legislative
resources, and eliminate the need to unnecessarily hear a number
of stand-alone bills that might otherwise have to be introduced
and heard separately through the legislative process. According
to the author, in order to be included in the bill, each
provision must be determined to be non-controversial by both the
majority and minority party consultants in both the Senate and
Assembly, or else it is amended out of the bill. This omnibus
bill incorporates over sixteen different proposals submitted by
various groups seeking to make technical, clarifying, or other
modest substantive changes to laws relating to housing.
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Analysis Prepared by:Jennifer Swenson / APPR. / (916)
319-2081