BILL ANALYSIS
------------------------------------------------------------
|SENATE RULES COMMITTEE | SB 951|
|Office of Senate Floor Analyses | |
|1020 N Street, Suite 524 | |
|(916) 651-1520 Fax: (916) | |
|327-4478 | |
------------------------------------------------------------
THIRD READING
Bill No: SB 951
Author: Correa (D)
Amended: As introduced
Vote: 21
SENATE TRANSPORTATION & HOUSING COMMITTEE : 7-1, 3/23/10
AYES: Lowenthal, Huff, DeSaulnier, Kehoe, Oropeza, Pavley,
Simitian
NOES: Ashburn
NO VOTE RECORDED: Harman
SENATE APPROPRIATIONS COMMITTEE : 8-1, 4/26/10
AYES: Kehoe, Alquist, Corbett, Denham, Leno, Price, Wolk,
Yee
NOES: Cox
NO VOTE RECORDED: Walters, Wyland
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, 2017.
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.
CONTINUED
SB 951
Page
2
Under the Mobilehome Park Maintenance (MPM) Inspection
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 and 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:
1. Extends the sunset date on the MPM inspection program
and related fees until 2017.
2. Requires that HCD report in writing to the MPM Task
Force and that HCD include additional information in its
report on:
A. The number of violations issued to mobilehome
owners, including the number that have been
corrected, the number that are uncorrected, and
progress in correcting the uncorrected violations.
B. The number of violations issued to mobilehome park
owners, including the number that have been
corrected, the number that are uncorrected, and
progress in correcting the uncorrected violations.
SB 951
Page
3
C. Recommendations for statutory or administrative
changes to the MPM program.
Background
AB 925 (O'Connell), Chapter 1125, Statutes of 1990, first
created the MPM Inspection Program, and it required HCD or
a local enforcement agency to inspect every mobilehome and
every mobilehome park in the state once every five years.
Because of delays created by the Northridge Earthquake and
other factors, HCD was not able to complete the inspection
of all mobilehome parks in the first five years.
Therefore, the Legislature twice extended the program to
require that all inspections be completed in eight-years,
or by 1999. By 1999, HCD and local agencies had completed
the inspection of all mobilehome parks.
In 1999, SB 700 (O'Connell), Chapter 520, extended the MPM
inspection program until January 1, 2007, and made some
changes to the inspection program. In particular, SB 700
limited the inspection program to mobilehome parks that
have a history of serious health and safety code violations
and required inspections at least once every seven years.
SB 700 limited the inspections in part because of the
limited funding provided by the $4-fee that supports the
MPM program.
SB 106 (Dunn), 2005-06 Session, would have deleted the 2007
sunset date on the MPM inspection program and increased the
existing $4-fee to $6 that pays for the inspections. The
Governor vetoed SB 106 because of the fee increase, so in
2006, SB 1231 (Dunn), Chapter 644, and a companion bill, AB
2250 (Coto), Chapter 858, extended the sunset date from
2007 to 2012 but did not increase the inspection fee.
FISCAL EFFECT : Appropriation: No Fiscal Com.: Yes
Local: No
According to the Senate Appropriations Committee:
Fiscal Impact (in thousands)
Major Provisions 2009-10 2010-11 2011-12 Fund
SB 951
Page
4
MPM inspection program $500
$1,000Special*
(Program costs funded by fees)
HCD report minor, absorbable costs
Special*
* Mobilehome Park Revolving Fund (funding level based on
revenue
from fees)
SUPPORT : (Verified 4/27/10)
California Rural Legal Assistance Foundation
Golden State Mobilehome Owners League
Western Center on Law and Poverty
Western Manufactured Housing Communities Association
ARGUMENTS IN SUPPORT : The author, who chairs the Senate
Select Committee on Manufactured Homes and Communities,
believes it is important to extend the MPM inspection
program for another five years. He notes that California's
nearly 4,000 mobilehome parks house approximately 550,000
residents and that the MPM program provides a complete
scheduled inspection of those mobilehome parks, as
contrasted with the complaint-driven inspections that
otherwise occur. The author asserts that the MPM
inspection 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. The author argues that some 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 another five years.
JJA:mw 4/27/10 Senate Floor Analyses
SB 951
Page
5
SUPPORT/OPPOSITION: SEE ABOVE
**** END ****