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                   Senate Appropriations Committee Fiscal Summary
                           Senator Christine Kehoe, Chair

                                           1964 (Torres)
          
          Hearing Date:  08/02/2010           Amended: As Introduced
          Consultant: Mark McKenzie       Policy Vote: T&H 9-0
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          BILL SUMMARY:   AB 1964 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, 2019.
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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)
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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.

          AB 1964 would extend the operation of the MPMI program and the  










          related $4 annual fee for an additional seven years, from  
          January 1, 2012 to January 1, 2019.  

          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.  HCD currently collects $1,053,652 in  
          fees on 263,413 mobilehome lots in 3,596 mobilehome parks.
          
          Staff notes that SB 951 (Correa), which is pending before the  
          Assembly Appropriations Committee, would extend the MPMI program  
          until January 1, 2019 and require HCD to provide additional  
          information on violations issued and recommendations for program  
          improvements in its semiannual report to the task force.