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Bill No: SB 251
Author: Senate Transportation and Housing Committee
Amended: 9/3/09
Vote: 21
SENATE TRANSPORTATION & HOUSING COMM : 10-0, 4/14/09
AYES: Lowenthal, Huff, Ashburn, DeSaulnier, Harman,
Hollingsworth, Kehoe, Pavley, Simitian, Wolk
NO VOTE RECORDED: Oropeza
SENATE FLOOR : 37-0, 4/23/09
AYES: Aanestad, Alquist, Ashburn, Benoit, Calderon,
Cedillo, Cogdill, Corbett, Correa, Cox, Denham,
DeSaulnier, Dutton, Florez, Hancock, Hollingsworth, Huff,
Kehoe, Leno, Liu, Lowenthal, Maldonado, Negrete McLeod,
Oropeza, Padilla, Pavley, Romero, Runner, Simitian,
Steinberg, Strickland, Walters, Wiggins, Wolk, Wright,
Wyland, Yee
NO VOTE RECORDED: Ducheny, Harman
ASSEMBLY FLOOR : 78-0, 9/8/09 - See last page for vote
SUBJECT : 2009 housing omnibus bill
SOURCE : Author
DIGEST : This bill makes non-controversial changes to
sections of law relating to housing.
Assembly Amendments change the time frame for which a
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council of government must transmit its regional housing
needs assessment plan to the Department of Housing and
Community Development to three day rather than
"immediately," add a new section to the bill relative to
the direct sale of manufactured homes to non-profit
affordable housing developers, and double joint this bill
to SB 113 (Senate Local Government Committee) and AB 570
(Arambula).
ANALYSIS : This bill:
1.Clarifies the timeline for the Department of Housing and
Community Development to review a council of government's
regional housing needs allocation plan.
2.Revises a Subdivision Map Act exemption relating to the
conversion of community apartments and stock
cooperatives.
3.Corrects drafting errors relating to the strapping of
water heaters in manufactured housing and to Chapter 8
tax sales.
4.Allows the direct sale of manufactured homes to
non-profit affordable housing developers.
5.Revises timelines related to the Local Housing Trust Fund
Program.
6.Corrects statutory cross references relating to
low-income housing tax credits and in redevelopment law.
7.Includes language to avoid chaptering conflicts with SB
113 (Committee on Local Government) and AB 570
(Arambula).
Comments
The Senate Transportation and Housing Committee is
authoring this bill as a means of combining multiple,
non-controversial changes to statutes into one bill, so
that the Legislature can make minor amendments in a
cost-effective manner. There is no known opposition to any
item in the bill, and if concerns arise that cannot be
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resolved, the provision of concern will be deleted from the
bill.
FISCAL EFFECT : Appropriation: No Fiscal Com.: No
Local: No
ASSEMBLY FLOOR :
AYES: Adams, Ammiano, Anderson, Arambula, Beall, Bill
Berryhill, Tom Berryhill, Blakeslee, Block, Blumenfield,
Brownley, Buchanan, Caballero, Carter, Chesbro, Conway,
Cook, Coto, Davis, De La Torre, De Leon, DeVore, Duvall,
Emmerson, Eng, Evans, Feuer, Fletcher, Fong, Fuentes,
Fuller, Furutani, Gaines, Galgiani, Garrick, Gilmore,
Hagman, Hall, Harkey, Hayashi, Hernandez, Hill, Huber,
Huffman, Jeffries, Jones, Knight, Krekorian, Lieu, Logue,
Bonnie Lowenthal, Ma, Mendoza, Miller, Monning, Nava,
Nestande, Niello, Nielsen, John A. Perez, V. Manuel
Perez, Portantino, Ruskin, Salas, Saldana, Silva,
Skinner, Smyth, Solorio, Audra Strickland, Swanson,
Torlakson, Torres, Torrico, Tran, Villines, Yamada, Bass
NO VOTE RECORDED: Charles Calderon, Vacancy
JJA:nl 9/9/09 Senate Floor Analyses
SUPPORT/OPPOSITION: NONE RECEIVED
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