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2025 Bills

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GSMOL members can find out how to help in the campaigns to support or oppose State bills by contacting the GSMOL Legislative Contact (LC) in your park, or, if your park doesn’t have one, the Legislative Action Team (LAT) at legislation@gsmol.org

Bills GSMOL is Sponsoring

AB 456 – Mobilehome Sales

Assemblymember Damon Connolly 

 

The bill would prohibit park management from requiring repairs or improvements to the interior of the mobilehome, preapprovals of the repairs or improvement, or a homeowner to obtain or provide an inspection of any portion of the interior of the mobilehome, as specified.

The bill would instead require the management to provide a homeowner with the written summary of repairs or improvements no later than 15 days following receipt of a request. The bill would deem the management to have voluntarily waived any and all rights to require repairs or improvements if the management fails or refuses to provide a homeowner the written summary, except as specified.

The bill would deem management to have approved the application of the prospective purchaser if management fails or refuses to notify the seller within 15 days of receiving the information.

 

Read and track the bill HERE.

See the press release HERE.


AB 635  –  Mobilehome Residency Law Protection Program: Attorney General

Assemblymember  Patrick Ahrens

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Assembly Member Ahrens is joined by
Senator Tom Umberg and
Assembly Member Maggy Krell as Principal CoAuthors

             

 

This bill would require the department to refer up to a total of 25 alleged violations of the Mobilehome Residency Law to the office of the Attorney General in any given fiscal year that the department in good faith efforts selects as the most severe, deleterious, and materially and economically impactful alleged violations. The bill would authorize the Attorney General to arbitrate, mediate, negotiate, or pursue any and all available judicial remedies in connection with any alleged violations of the law referred by the department.

This bill would require moneys in the fund to be made available to the department or to the Attorney General, upon appropriation by the Legislature, for purposes of implementing the program. The bill would require the Attorney General to use funds appropriated to it as necessary to perform duties related to enforcing the alleged violations described above.

Read and track the bill HERE.


AB 925 – Emergency Preparedness

Assemblymember Dawn Addis

Assemblymember Addis re-introduces her Emergency Preparedness bill!

Existing law, the Mobilehome Parks Act, generally regulates various classifications of mobilehome and related vehicle parks, and imposes enforcement duties on the Department of Housing and Community Development (department) and local enforcement agencies. Existing law makes it unlawful to operate a park without a valid permit issued by the enforcement agency. In this connection, existing law requires payment of an annual fee of $4 per lot at the time of payment of the annual operating permit fee that is used exclusively by the department or local enforcement agency for the inspection of mobilehome parks and mobilehomes to determine compliance with the act.
This bill would increase the per-lot fee to $10 until January 1, 2030.

Existing law requires every park with 50 or more units to have a person who is responsible for, and will respond in a timely manner to, emergencies concerning the operation and maintenance of the park that resides in the park and has knowledge of emergency procedures relative to utility systems and common facilities under the ownership and control of the owner of the park, and familiarity with the emergency preparedness plans for the park.

This bill would require the department, on or before June 30, 2026, to publicly post on its internet website changes to the provision described above that are to become operative on January 1, 2027. This bill would, starting January 1, 2027, require that in every park with 50 or more units, including special occupancy parks, a person be available who has knowledge of the emergency preparedness plan for the park and have access to utility systems, fire hydrants, and exits and entrances under the ownership or control of the park.

Existing law requires an owner or operator of an existing mobilehome park to adopt an emergency preparedness plan on or before September 1, 2010. For parks constructed after September 1, 2010, existing law requires an owner or operator of a park to adopt that plan before the issuance of the permit to operate. Existing law requires an owner or operator to post notice of the plan and provide information to residents relating to accessing the plan and individual emergency preparedness information, as specified. Existing law requires an enforcement agency to determine park compliance with these provisions. Existing law deems a violation of these provisions to constitute an unreasonable risk to life, health, or safety and requires correction by park management within 60 days of notice of the violation. Under existing law, a willful violation of the act is a misdemeanor, as specified.

This bill would, instead, require, beginning January 1, 2027, an owner or operator of a mobilehome park to adopt an emergency preparedness plan, which includes prescribed elements, before renewal of a permit to operate for an existing park, and before the issuance and renewal of a permit to operate for a park constructed after January 1, 2027. The bill would require a park to adopt emergency procedures and plans approved by the Standardized Emergency Management System Advisory Board, as specified, and a written statement by a park owner, manager, or designee that shall be attached to the park’s request to obtain or renew a permit to operate. The bill would require an owner or operator of a park to provide notice annually on how to access the plan by distribution of the materials to each household and posting notice of the plan, as specified. The bill would require an enforcement agency to ascertain compliance with those provisions through specified methods, and to refuse to issue or renew a permit to operate if a violation is not corrected within 60 days of notice of the violation and would authorize the enforcement agency to impose formal penalties. The bill would require park management to make a subsequent written statement under penalty of perjury before the issuance and renewal of the park’s permit to operate, if management does not correct the violation within 60 days of notice and formal penalties are issued by the enforcement agency.

The bill would also require the department to publicly post the above-described provisions on its internet website on or before June 30, 2026.

Because this bill would expand the crime of perjury and the scope of existing crimes under the Mobilehome Parks Act, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program.

Read and track the bill HERE.

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