BILL ANALYSIS
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THIRD READING
Bill No: AB 188
Author: Assembly Budget Committee
Amended: 9/4/09 in Senate
Vote: 21
PRIOR VOTES NOT RELEVANT
SUBJECT : State fees
SOURCE : Author
DIGEST : Senate Floor Amendments of 9/4/09 delete the
prior version of the bill providing the necessary statutory
changes in the area of general government in order to enact
modifications to the Budget Act.
Specifically, this bill makes technical (non-substantive)
and clarifying changes to the following provisions, enacted
pursuant to ABX4 12, regarding fees collected in support of
the Employee Housing Program, mobilehome licensing,
mobilehome park compliance, and the Division of Labor
Standards Enforcement within the Department of Industrial
Relations:
1.Increases mobilehome registration fees by $12 and
increase the Permit to Operate fee to $140 to ensure
mobilehome park inspections and other services can
continue to be provided.
2.Increases fees on providers of employee housing to $200
CONTINUED
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per facility and $27 per employee in order to maintain
minimal safety inspection service for these facilities.
Suspend until July 1, 2012, the requirement that the
Department of Housing and Community Development provide
an annual employee housing report.
3.Creates the Labor Enforcement and Compliance Fund, funded
by surcharges on employers, for support of the activities
of the Division of Labor Standards Enforcement within the
Department of Industrial Relations. This provision
sunsets in 2013.
ANALYSIS : Under existing law, the Department of Housing
and Community Development is required to establish a
schedule of fees to pay for the cost of administration and
enforcement of the Employee Housing Act. The department is
required to establish a schedule of fees that includes, but
is not limited to, specified minimum permit fees. The
department is authorized, on or after January 1, 2010, to
increase these specified fees, if necessary, to finance the
costs of administration and enforcement of the act.
The Mobilehome Parks Act requires the payment of various
registration and renewal fees to the department for a
specified section of a manufactured home, mobilehome, or
commercial coach and the payment of an annual operating
permit fee, as specified.
Existing law establishes the Labor Enforcement and
Compliance Fund in the State Treasury and requires the
Director of the Department of Industrial Relations to levy
a separate surcharge upon all employers for purposes of
deposit in the fund. Existing law requires that the total
amount of the surcharges be allocated between employers in
proportion to payroll respectively paid in the most recent
year for which payroll information is available, and
requires the director to adopt reasonable regulations
governing the manner of collection of the surcharges.
This bill repeals and reinstates these provisions of
existing law.
FISCAL EFFECT : Appropriation: No Fiscal Com.: No
Local: No
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