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Below are legislative bills introduced by Park Owners.  These bills need to be killed in committee, long before they get to the floor.

The two bills we have to kill are as follows:

1. AB 481 (Ma) – Rent Control – 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.

2. 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.

As you know from our January 26th report, the 2009 Legislative Session is off to a slow start.  We anticipate hearings will start in April, and that bills relating to funding will be heard first, and others without funding requests (including ours) will be heard later.  We’ll definitely keep you posted on the hearing schedules and the need to lobby the policy committee members and your local legislators. 

 

GSMOL Legislative Advocate Brian Augusta has assembled the complete list of manufactured housing-related bills, as attached above.  We have prioritized four bills for this session, as follows:

 

  • GSMOL sponsored AB 869 - Park Managers Certification.  A Fact Sheet created by Brian is attached above, and copy/pasted below.  Please review this carefully and contact us if you have any concerns about the strategy behind this effort. 
  • We will strongly support AB 566 - Condo Conversions. 
  • GSMOL vigorously opposes AB 481 and AB 761 intended to chip-away at rent control. Similar bills were killed in committee last year.

 

These are explained in the attached MH Bill List.  We will recommend positions (support, neutral, oppose) on all remaining MH related bills in the near future when their intent is better known, and after consulting with our manufactured housing partners. 

 

On a related matter, the first MH Advocates Capitol Summit was held on Feb. 27th.  Its purpose was to reach consensus on a solid unified approach to legislative goals, from drafting the bills through the amendment process.  We are please to report that it resulted in a good first step.  It was limited by design to those MH advocacy associations that function on a statewide basis and/or have a legislative presence in the Capitol, and included representatives from Neighborhood Friends, CoMO-CAL, CMRAA and GSMOL.  It was facilitated and moderated by Christine and Brian with input from John Tennyson. A second Summit is being planned for the first week of April and will include interested regional, county and city MH advocacy groups.  More on this soon………..

 

Thank you all for your past grassroots support and we look forward to an even more successful session this year.  We need your help, so don’t let it happen without you! 

 

Jim Burr, Chair

GSMOL Legislative Action Team

 

(See also: Supported Legislation )