WMA CONTINUES TO WORK ON KEY BILLS AS THEY ADVANCE TO SECOND HOUSE, REFERRED TO POLICY COMMITTEES

WMA continues its advocacy efforts on the following bills awaiting action in the second legislative house:

AB 2002 (Villapudua) – Sponsored by WMA, this bill authored by Assemblymember Carlos Villapudua (D-Stockton) will allow residents to access funds to correct violations and enable parkowners and residents to work together to correct violations before getting to the point of getting a notice of intent to suspend a Permit to Operate (PTO) for uncorrected violations.

AB 2002 is awaiting referral to the proper policy committee in the Senate. To keep apprised, please visit the following link:  https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billStatusClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB2002.

SB 869 (Leyva) – Despite recent amendments, WMA remains opposed to SB 869, the mandatory manager training bill by Senator Connie Leyva (Democrat, Chino). As amended, SB 869 requires HCD to adopt regulations to require at least one person per mobilehome park or recreational vehicle park employed or acting under contract as an onsite manager or assistant manager to receive 16 hours of training during the initial year and at least 6 hours of training in subsequent years. Questions surround the current bill language and whether HCD will have the means to meet this goal by the statutory language requiring a May 1, 2024, implementation date.

SB 869 is awaiting referral to the appropriate policy committee in the Assembly.  To keep apprised, please visit the following link:  https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billStatusClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB869.

SB 940 (Laird) – If passed, SB 940 (Laird) would eliminate the rent control exemption for the new construction of spaces in local rent control ordinances. As part of its opposition campaign, WMA engages with policymakers and points out the bill’s inequities and misguided efforts to disincentivize new mobilehome park construction.    

SB 940 has been referred to the Assembly Housing and Community Development Committee, but no committee hearing on this bill has been scheduled.  To keep apprised, please visit the following link:

https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billStatusClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB940

MAY 27 DEADLINE TO PASS BILLS OUT OF HOUSE OF ORIGIN ARRIVES, BUDGET DEADLINE LOOMS

Last Friday was the deadline to pass bills out of their original house, i.e., Assembly bills to Senate, Senate bills to Assembly, and marked a milestone for the legislative session. Bills that failed to meet this deadline are effectively dead for 2022.

Several measures opposed and monitored by WMA were defeated because of this deadline.  Some of the most notable include:

AB 2240 (Muratsuchi) – This bill would have stated the intent of the Legislature to amend existing tenancy and rental rate increase protections for tenants applicable to mobilehome parks.

AB 2469 (Wicks) – This bill would have required the Department of Housing and Community Development to develop and maintain a rental registry online portal designed to collect specified information related to housing. The bill was pulled from the committee, and this rental registry bill is dead for the year.

BUDGET DEADLINE APPROACHING

June 15 is the constitutional deadline for legislators to pass the 2022-2023 state budget, a staggering $300 billion package, to the Governor.  The state currently faces a $97.5 billion surplus, and there will be much debate over dealing with the surplus.     

Please click here to view the 2022-2023 Revised Budget Summary:

https://www.ebudget.ca.gov/budget/2022-23MR/#/BudgetSummary

Chris Wysocki is WMA’s State Legislative Advocate. He can be reached at chris@wma.org.