The City
The next HMOA, Inc. meeting will be held on Saturday, March 20, 2010 at 10:00 at Eden Roc.
The State
Summary of Priority Mobilehome Bills for 2010
Support
AB 1964 (Torres) & SB 951 (Correa) Description: The MPM program provides for the periodic inspection of mobilehome prks throughout California, targeting a full inspection of 5% of the parks each year. The program also established an advisory task force of homeowners, park owner and government representatives wo meet periodically with HCD staff to monitor progrss under the program. That statuate creating that program is scheduled to "sunset" at the end of this year. Both Assemblymember Torres and Correa have introduced bills to extend the sunset date by a number of years (AB 1964 extends to January 1, 2019;SB 951 to January 1, 2017). In addition the Correa bill would clarify that the format and content of the report HCD produces twice per year on the status of the program.
Oppose
AB 481 (Ma) - Rent Control - OPPOSE. Current law provides that a mobilehome located on a space in a mobilehome park is exempt from local rent control protection if the park management can show, based on public records, the home is not the homeowner's principal residence. The rent control exemption also does not apply if the park does not permit the homeowner to sublet the space within the park that is subject to rent control. This bill eliminates the public record and subletting requirements.
Status: Bill was not heard in Assembly Housing Committee. Has become a two year bill
AB 761 (Calderon) Mobilehome Rent Control: Vacancy Decontrol - This bill would provide, that upon the sale, assignment, transfer, or termination of an interest in a mobilehome or a mobilehome tenancy in a mobilehome park, the management of the park may offer a new rental agreement containing an initial rent in excess of the maximum rent established by a local measure, except as specified. The bill would provide that, after execution of the new rental agreement, the local measure shall govern the agreement in all applicable respects.
Status: Bill was passed in the Assembly Housing Committee by a vote of 4 to 0 (there were two abstentions) on May 13th. It was amended by its author, Charles Calderon, and was sent back to the Housing Committee for a second vote scheduled for Monday, June 8th at 3:00 PM. If it passes out of the Housing Committee, it will proceed to the Assembly Floor for a vote. Most likely this will occur on Wednesday, June 10th. We are very pleased that our State Assemblymember, Mary Hayashi is in total support of our opposition to this outrageous legislation!
Bill passed in the Housing Committee and proceded to the Assembly Floor. On Monday, June 22nd AB 761 failed to receive the required 41 votes to pass. Unfortunately, it was decided that a second Assembly vote be taken on June 25th. This second vote resulted in the bill receiving 42 votes in favor of the bill. AB 761 will now proceed to the Senate Judiciary Committee on July 7, 2009 at 1:30 for consideration. As you all are probably aware that our very own State Senator, Ellen Corbett is the Chair person of this Committee and she has always been a major ally of our mobilehome community. Bill was not heard on July 7th because it had not made it out of the Senate Rules Committee. This is a two year bill and is currently in the Senate Judiciary Committee. Most likely it will not be heard until June.
AB 2120 (Silva) Mobilehome Parks WMA Sponsored. Existing law requires the management of a mobilehome park to provide homeowners with a copy of the Mobilehome Residency Law by February 1 of each year, if a significant change was made in those provisions by legislation enacted in the prior year. This bill would eliminate that requirement and homeowners would no longer receive a copy of the MRL from management.
AB 2439 (Nestande) Mobilehome parks. WMA sponsored measure. Under existing law, a park owner must allow a homeowner to sublet his or her space subject to certain conditions-if the person must be absent because of a medical emergency that is confirmed by a doctor. Among the conditions, a homeowner using this provision may not charge a sublessee more than an amount necessary to cover the cost of space rent, utilities, and scheduled loan payments on the mobilehome, if any. This bill would, additionally, allow, but not require a park owner to charge any rent they desire, but would end rent control on the space.
SB 1097 (Strickland) WMA Sponsored. Under existing law, prks with a sub-metered utility system are allowed to collect a portion of the fees charged to residents. This fee, sometimes referred to as the sub-metered discount, is collected by the park owner to compensate them for the cost of providing and maintaining adequate utility service. Existing law also creates a mechanism for park owners to voluntarily transfer their submetered systems to the utility. This bill would, among other things, allow parkowners to be compensated for the value of the sub-meter discount that the park owner would give up by transferring the system.