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                                                                  SB 149
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          Date of Hearing:   August 8, 2012

                        ASSEMBLY COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS
                                Felipe Fuentes, Chair

                     SB 149 (Correa) - As Amended:  May 25, 2012 

          Policy Committee:                              Housing and 
          Community Development                         Vote: 6-1

          Urgency:     No                   State Mandated Local Program: 
          No     Reimbursable:              

           SUMMARY  

          This bill requires the Department of Housing and Community 
          Development (HCD) or a local enforcement agency to include 
          notice of the Mobilehome Residency Law (MRL) and the 
          Recreational Vehicle Park Occupancy Law on the annual invoice 
          for a permit to operate a mobilehome park or special occupancy 
          park.

           FISCAL EFFECT  

          Negligble fiscal impact.

           COMMENTS 

           1)Purpose  .  The author states that as chair of the Senate Select 
            Committee on Manufactured Housing and Communities, he 
            introduced SB 149 to broaden knowledge of the MRL and the 
            Recreational Vehicle Park Occupancy Law. While California has 
            nearly 5,000 mobile and manufactured home parks, the author 
            reports that only about 1,500 parks are members of 
            professional trade associations that provide ongoing education 
            for their members, including knowledge of and updates to the 
            MRL. The author notes the situation is similar for 
            recreational vehicle parks.  The select committee staff 
            reports that owners and managers of mobilehome parks and 
            recreational vehicle parks whot are not members of trade 
            associations are sometimes unaware the MRL and the 
            Recreational Vehicle Park Occupancy Law exist even though they 
            are bound by their provisions.  The author argues that SB 149 
            will help make owners aware of the laws that are applicable in 
            their parks.








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           2)Background  .  The Mobilehome Residency Law (MRL) is 
            California's landlord-tenant law for mobilehome parks, 
            extensively regulating the rights, responsibilities, 
            obligations, and relationships between mobilehome park owners 
            and managers and park residents. The Recreational Vehicle 
            Parks Occupancy Law is the analogous law for recreational 
            vehicle parks.

            HCD regulates mobilehome parks to assure protection of the 
            health, safety and general welfare of all mobilehome park 
            residents. HCD has analogous responsibilities for recreational 
            vehicle parks.  Local agencies have the option of assuming 
            enforcement authority for those facilities within their 
            jurisdiction through agreement with HCD.  Each operator of a 
            mobilehome park or a recreational vehicle park pays a fee 
            annually and obtains a permit to operate from either HCD or 
            the local enforcement agency.
                
            3)There is no registered opposition to this bill.  



           Analysis Prepared by  :    Roger Dunstan / APPR. / (916) 319-2081