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THIRD READING
Bill No: AB 1964
Author: Torres (D)
Amended: As introduced
Vote: 21
SENATE TRANSPORTATION & HOUSING COMMITTEE : 9-0, 6/29/10
AYES: Lowenthal, Huff, Ashburn, DeSaulnier, Harman, Kehoe,
Pavley, Simitian, Wolk
SENATE APPROPRIATIONS COMMITTEE : 8-0, 8/2/10
AYES: Kehoe, Alquist, Ashburn, Corbett, Emmerson, Price,
Wolk, Yee
NO VOTE RECORDED: Leno, Walters, Wyland
ASSEMBLY FLOOR : 68-1, 5/24/10 - See last page for vote
SUBJECT : Mobilehomes: park inspections and fees
SOURCE : Author
DIGEST : This bill extends the Department of Housing and
Community Developments Mobilehome Park Maintenance
Inspection Program until January 1, 2019.
ANALYSIS : The Mobilehome Parks Act requires the
Department of Housing and Community Development (HCD) to
regulate the construction, installation, use, maintenance,
and occupancy of mobilehomes and mobilehome parks.
Under the Mobilehome Park Maintenance (MPM) Inspection
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Program, existing law requires HCD or a local enforcement
agency, until January 1, 2012, to inspect mobilehome parks
proactively with a goal of inspecting at least five percent
of the parks per year with a focus on those parks for which
the enforcement agency has received complaints about
serious health and safety violations.
Existing law provides for HCD or a local enforcement
agency, until
January 1, 2012, to collect annually a per space fee of $4
to fund the MPM inspection program, $2 of which the
mobilehome park owner may charge to individual homeowners.
Existing law requires HCD to convene a task force every six
months to provide input to HCD on the conduct and operation
of the MPM inspection program. The task force includes
mobilehome park owners, mobilehome owners, local
enforcement agencies, and legislative representatives. HCD
must report to the task force information on the number of
parks and spaces that were inspected, the fees collected,
the most common violations discovered, and the number of
violations identified plus progress on correcting those
violations.
This bill extends the sunset date on the MPM inspection
program and related fees until 2019.
Comments
Purpose of the bill . The MPM program provides a complete,
scheduled inspection of mobilehome parks, as contrasted
with the complaint-driven inspections that otherwise occur.
The program came about in 1990 because of concerns that
the complaint inspection process by itself did not
adequately address deteriorating health and safety
conditions in some parks. As a result of the MPM program,
HCD and local enforcement agencies, since 1991, have cited
both park owners and homeowners for tens of thousands of
health and safety violations, which as a result have been
remedied. Without the MPM program, many of these would not
otherwise have been addressed. With the impending January
1, 2012 sunset date, the author reports interest from
homeowners, HCD, and the park industry in extending the
program. This bill extends the sunset on the MPM program
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and its associated fees through January 1, 2019.
Related Legislation
SB 951 (Correa) extends the MPM Inspection Program until
January 1, 2017, makes minor changes to the information
that HCD must report to the MPM task force, and requires
that report to be in writing.
FISCAL EFFECT : Appropriation: No Fiscal Com.: Yes
Local: Yes
According to the Senate Appropriations Committee:
Fiscal Impact (in thousands)
Major Provisions 2010-11 2011-12 2012-13 Fund
MPM inspection program $500
$1,000Special*
(Program costs funded by fees)
* Mobilehome Park Revolving Fund (funding level based on
revenue from fees)
SUPPORT : (Verified 8/3/10)
California Rural Legal Assistance Foundation
Golden State Mobilehome Owners League
Western Center on Law and Poverty
ASSEMBLY FLOOR :
AYES: Adams, Ammiano, Arambula, Beall, Bill Berryhill, Tom
Berryhill, Blakeslee, Block, Blumenfield, Bradford,
Brownley, Buchanan, Caballero, Charles Calderon, Carter,
Chesbro, Conway, Cook, Coto, Davis, De La Torre, De Leon,
DeVore, Emmerson, Eng, Feuer, Fletcher, Fong, Fuentes,
Fuller, Furutani, Gaines, Galgiani, Garrick, Gilmore,
Hagman, Harkey, Hayashi, Hill, Huber, Huffman, Jeffries,
Jones, Lieu, Bonnie Lowenthal, Ma, Mendoza, Miller,
Monning, Nestande, Niello, Nielsen, Norby, V. Manuel
Perez, Portantino, Ruskin, Salas, Silva, Skinner,
Solorio, Audra Strickland, Swanson, Torlakson, Torres,
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Torrico, Tran, Yamada, John A. Perez
NOES: Anderson
NO VOTE RECORDED: Bass, Evans, Hall, Hernandez, Knight,
Logue, Nava, Saldana, Smyth, Villines, Vacancy
JJA:mw 8/3/10 Senate Floor Analyses
SUPPORT/OPPOSITION: SEE ABOVE
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