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                                                                  AB 2762
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          Date of Hearing:  April 21, 2010

                       ASSEMBLY COMMITTEE ON LOCAL GOVERNMENT
                                Cameron Smyth, Chair
             AB 2762 (Committee on Housing and Community Development) - 
                          As Introduced:  February 23, 2010
           
          SUBJECT  :  Housing and community development: housing omnibus  
          bill

           SUMMARY  :  Makes technical and non-controversial changes to  
          various sections of housing law.  Specifically,  this bill  :

          1)Corrects a drafting error in housing element law that  
            incorrectly refers to the planning period of the general plan  
            rather than the planning period of the housing element and  
            includes uncodified language explaining the reason for the  
            amendment.

          2)Exempts properties that house victims of domestic violence  
            shelters from the requirement that a property's address be  
            listed on the Notice of Affordability Restrictions that is  
            required to be recorded under redevelopment law.

          3)Allows the guidelines for the Affordable Housing Revolving  
            Development and Acquisition Program to remain in force for the  
            duration of the initial loans and only requires regulations  
            for future requests for qualifications (RFQs) funded with loan  
            repayments.

          4)Requires the Bureau of State Audits (BSA) to conduct periodic  
            audits of all programs funded under Proposition 1C, the  
            Housing and Emergency Shelter Act of 2006.  Current law  
            already requires periodic audits of most programs funded by  
            Proposition 1C, but omits the Infill Infrastructure Grant  
            Program and the Transit Oriented Development Program.

          5)Corrects numerous statutory cross-references, fixes numbering  
            errors, and repeals several outdated provisions of code.

           EXISTING LAW  includes numerous provisions related to housing.

           FISCAL EFFECT  :  Unknown

           COMMENTS  :








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          1)The Assembly Committee on Housing and Community Development 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 in question will be deleted from the  
            bill.

          2)AB 2762 is double-referred to the Committees on Housing and  
            Community Development, where it was heard and passed with an  
            8-0 vote on April 14, 2010, and to Local Government.




           REGISTERED SUPPORT / OPPOSITION  :   

           Support 
                                                                            
          None on file

           Opposition 
           
          None on file
           
          Analysis Prepared by :    Debbie Michel / L. GOV. / (916)  
          319-3958