BILL ANALYSIS �
SENATE TRANSPORTATION & HOUSING COMMITTEE BILL NO: ab 2753
SENATOR MARK DESAULNIER, CHAIRMAN AUTHOR: asm H&CD
VERSION: 6/17/14
Analysis by: Mark Stivers FISCAL: yes
Hearing date: June 24, 2014
SUBJECT:
Housing omnibus bill
DESCRIPTION:
This bill makes technical and non-controversial changes to
various sections of the law dealing with housing.
ANALYSIS:
By combining multiple matters into one bill, the Legislature can
make minor changes to law in the most cost-effective manner.
This bill includes the following provisions:
1.Extra Credit Teacher Home Purchase (ECTHP) Program [Section
5]. The California Housing Finance Agency administers the
ECTHP Program to provide down payment assistance to teachers,
administrators, classified employees, and staff working in
high-priority schools who are first-time homebuyers. Current
law requires a borrower to repay the loan upon sale. Federal
Housing Administration (FHA) regulations provide that FHA
loans must be assumable, which means that ECTHP loans cannot
be coupled with FHA loans. Last year, AB 984 (Chau), Chapter
82, Statutes of 2013, changed the repayment requirement for
CalHFA's other down payment assistance program to be
compatible with FHA financing. This bill likewise changes the
repayment requirement for the ECTHP Program to make it
compatible with FHA financing.
2.Carbon monoxide detectors in hotels and motels [Section 4].
Current law requires existing hotel and motel units with
fuel-burning appliances or attached garages to install carbon
monoxide detectors on or before January 1, 2016. To
facilitate compliance with the requirement, current law also
requires the Department of Housing and Community Development
(HCD), on or before July 1, 2014, to submit to the Building
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Standards Commission (BSC) for adoption building standards for
the installation of carbon monoxide detectors in hotel and
motel units. However, the BSC will not adopt the next
California Building Code until 2016, and this code will not
take effect until January 1, 2017. In order to consolidate
these building standards with the normal building standards
revision process, this bill provides HCD with one more year to
submit the proposed building standards for the installation of
carbon monoxide detectors in hotel and motel dwelling units
and gives existing hotel and motel dwelling owners until
January 1, 2017, to equip units with carbon monoxide
detectors.
3.Correcting cross-references and numbering errors [Sections 1,
2, and 3]. This bill also corrects a number of statutory
cross-references and numbering errors.
COMMENTS:
Purpose of the bill . The Assembly Housing and Community
Development 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 this bill, and if concerns arise that cannot be resolved, the
provision of concern will be deleted from this bill.
Assembly Votes:
Floor: 73-0
Appr: 17-0
H&CD: 7-0
POSITIONS: (Communicated to the committee before noon on
Wednesday, June 18,
2014.)
SUPPORT: None received.
OPPOSED: None received.