BILL ANALYSIS
SB 951
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Date of Hearing: June 30, 2010
ASSEMBLY COMMITTEE ON HOUSING AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT
Norma Torres, Chair
SB 951 (Correa) - As Introduced: February 4, 2010
SENATE VOTE : 24-8
SUBJECT : Mobilehome Parks Act.
SUMMARY : Extends the sunset on the Mobilehome Park Maintenance
(MPM) inspection program and its related fees until January 1,
2017, and makes minor changes to related reporting requirements.
Specifically, this bill :
1)Extends the sunset date on the MPM inspection program and its
related fees until January 1, 2017.
2)Requires that the Department of Housing and Community
Development (HCD) to include the following information it its
semiannual reports to the MPM task force:
a) The number of violations issued to mobilehome owners and
mobilehome park owners, including the number that have been
corrected, the number that remain uncorrected, and progress
in correcting the uncorrected violations; and
b) Recommendations for statutory or administrative changes
to the MPM program.
3)Requires that HCD's semiannual reports to the MPM task force
be in writing.
EXISTING LAW
1)Requires HCD to regulate the construction, installation, use,
maintenance, and occupancy of mobilehomes and mobilehome parks
(Health and Safety Code Section 18200, et seq.).
2)Gives local agencies the option of assuming enforcement
authority of the state's mobilehome codes and regulations
within their jurisdictions through agreement with HCD (Health
and Safety Code Section 18300).
3)Under the MPM inspection program, requires HCD or a local
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enforcement agency, until January 1, 2012, to inspect
mobilehome parks proactively with a goal of inspecting at
least five percent of parks per year and a focus on those
parks for which the enforcement agency has received complaints
about serious health and safety violations (Health and Safety
Code Section 18400.1).
4)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 (Health and Safety Code
18502).
5)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 amount of fees collected and expended, the most
common violations discovered, and the number of violations
identified plus progress on correcting those violations.
(Health and Safety Code Section 18400.3)
FISCAL EFFECT : Unknown
COMMENTS :
AB 925 (O'Connell), Chapter 1125, Statutes of 1990, first
created the MPM inspection program, and 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. 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, Statutes of 1999,
extended the MPM inspection program until January 1, 2007, and
made some changes to the program. In particular, SB 700 limited
the inspection program to mobilehome parks that had a history of
serious health and safety code violations and required these
inspections at least once every seven years. SB 700 limited the
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inspections in part because of the limited funding provided by
the $4 fee that supports the MPM program. About one-third of
mobilehome parks in the state were inspected under the MPM
program between 2000 and SB 700's sunset date of January 1,
2007. SB 700 also created the MPM inspection task force and
required it to meet once a year.
SB 106 (Dunn) of 2005 would have deleted the 2007 sunset date on
the MPM inspection program and increased the existing $4 fee to
$6 to for the inspections. The Governor vetoed SB 106 because
of the fee increase, so in 2006, SB 1231 (Dunn), Chapter 644,
Statutes of 2006, extended the sunset date on the MPM inspection
program until January, 1, 2012, and increased the frequency of
the MPM task force meetings to every six months, but did not
increase the fee. Also in 2006, AB 2250 (Coto), Chapter 858,
Statutes of 2006, set the goal that five percent of parks would
be inspected under the MPM program each year.
The MPM program provides a complete, scheduled inspection of
mobilehome parks, as contrasted with the complaint-driven
inspections that otherwise occur. The program was created
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 likely 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.
SB 951 would extend the sunset on the MPM program and its
associated fees through January 1, 2017, and make minor changes
to the information HCD must provide on a biennial basis to the
MPM Task Force.
Similar Legislation
SB 951 is similar to AB 1964, which passed out of this committee
on April 14, 2010, by a vote of 8-0. AB 1964 extends the sunset
on the MPM inspection program and related fees through January
1, 2019.
Committee Amendment
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Extend the sunset on the MPM inspection program and related fees
through January 1, 2019, to avoid chaptering out issues with AB
1964.
REGISTERED SUPPORT / OPPOSITION :
Support
California Rural Legal Assistance Foundation
Golden State Manufactured-Home Owners League
Western Center on Law and Poverty
Western Manufactured Housing Communities Association
Opposition
None on file
Analysis Prepared by : Anya Lawler / H. & C.D. / (916)
319-2085