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2024 Bills Became Law Jan 1, 2025 |
Assembly Bill (AB) 661 (Patterson) Utility Services: Electronic Communication: Chapter 23, Statutes of 2024.
Summary: This bill authorizes management to provide notice through electronic communication, if consented to by the homeowner or resident
AB 2304 (Lee) Masking Mobilehome Unlawful Detainer Cases Status: Chapter 711, Statutes of 2024.
Summary: This bill will apply California masking laws to unlawful detainer cases for mobilehome residents.
Existing law requires the court clerk to allow specified persons access to case records, including the court file, index, and register of actions, filed in unlawful detainer actions that are limited civil cases. Existing law requires that this access must be given to any other person 60 days after the complaint has been filed if judgment against all defendants has been entered for the plaintiff within 60 days of the filing of the complaint, and other persons as specified. Existing law exempts from these requirements records in a case that seeks to terminate a mobilehome park tenancy if the statement of the character of the proceeding in the caption of the complaint clearly indicates that the complaint seeks termination of a mobilehome park tenancy.
The bill would delete the exemption for access to case records for cases that seek to terminate a mobilehome tenancy, as specified.
AB 1849 (Grayson) Status: Chapter 196, Statutes of 2024
Summary: Clarifies that buyers of motor homes whose vehicles cannot be repaired to meet the terms of the express warranties after a reasonable number of attempts, are not required to accept a replacement motor home. Instead, they have the option to choose reimbursement.
Provides that, if the manufacturer or its representative in this state does not service or repair a travel trailer or a portion of motor homes designed, used, or maintained for human habitation to conform to the applicable express warranties after a reasonable number of attempts, the buyer is free to elect reimbursement in lieu of replacement, and in no event will the buyer be required by the manufacturer to accept a replacement travel trailer or motor home.
Amendments Add motor homes or a portion of a motor home designed, used, or maintained for human habitation to the items covered by the bill.
AB 2247 (Wallis) Status: Chapter 387, Statutes of 2024
Summary: Extends the repeal date to January 1, 2030, for the pre-inspection notice required by Health & Safety Code section 18400.1, the notice of code violations required by Section 18420, and the applicable $4 per lot fee authorized by Section 18502(c)(2). This bill will also require enforcement agencies to also include with the notice of violation a list of local recipients of loans from the Manufactured Housing Opportunity and Revitalization (MORE) program in addition to the list of local agencies that have home repair programs for which registered owners of manufactured homes may be eligible.
Extends the sunset date on the Mobilehome Parks Act (MPA) from January 1, 2025 to January 1, 2030, and requires the Department of Housing and Community Development (HCD) to add local recipients of loans from the Manufactured Housing Opportunity and Revitalization (MORE) Program to the list of local agencies that have home repair or rehabilitation programs to be provided to mobilehome owners who receive a notice of violation (NOV).
Amendments 1) Delete the requirement for a NOV to include information about the MORE Program, and instead require HCD to add local recipients of loans from the MORE Program to the list of local agencies that have home repair or rehabilitation programs to be provided to owners who receive a NOV. 2) Add chaptering language.
AB 2373 (Rendon) Status: Chapter 395, Statutes of 2024
Summary: Limits the ability of mobilehome park management to terminate a tenancy for nonpayment or for a change of park use unless the park has a valid permit to operate issued by the enforcement agency.
Amendments Clarify that park management may not terminate a tenancy for nonpayment or for a change of park use unless the park has a valid permit to operate issued by the enforcement agency, rather than during the period of any suspension or expiration of the permit to operate.
AB 2387 (Pellerin) Status: Chapter 396, Statutes of 2024
Summary: Allows an existing mobilehome park owner to apply to the applicable enforcement agency to add lots, including multifamily manufactured homes on a lot previously occupied by a single-family mobilehome or manufactured home, to the mobilehome park not to exceed 10% of the previously approved number of lots in the park, if the park owner has a valid operating permit that has not been suspended. The bill would exempt the additional lots from any business tax, local registration fee, use permit fee, or other fee, except those fees that apply to the existing lots in the park, and would prohibit the owner from reducing the size of, or interfering with, certain existing facilities without first complying with specified requirements for creating, moving, shifting, or altering lot lines. The bill also provides that a lot occupied by a multifamily manufactured home that was previously occupied by a single-family home is not considered “new construction” for the purposes of Civil Code Section 798.45, and that the conversion of single-family lots cannot be the basis for closing or converting that portion of the park into another use. Lastly, this bill would prohibit the enforcement agency, city, or county from requiring a conditional use permit, zoning variance, or other zoning approval in order to add the lots. By requiring a city or county to ministerially approve a project to add the mobilehome park lots described above, this bill would exempt those projects from the requirement to prepare a CEQA environmental impact report.
The bill would include findings that changes proposed by this bill address a matter of statewide concern rather than a municipal affair and, therefore, apply to all cities, including charter cities.
AB 2399 (Rendon) Status: Chapter 397, Statutes of 2024
Summary: Requires a notice regarding the Mobilehome Residency Law Protection Program (MRLPP), and how to contact the program, to be included in a specified notice of a mobilehome owner and mobilehome park’s rights and responsibilities that the mobilehome park must provide to all mobilehome owners on an annual basis and as part of the rental agreement.
Requires that, as part of the notice required to be included in the rental agreement for a mobilehome site and provided to a mobilehome owner prior to February 1 each year, mobilehome park management provide the following specified statement regarding the MRLPP: a) “The mobilehome Residency Law Protection Program (MRLPP), found in Section 18800 et seq. of the Health and Safety Code, protects and safeguards mobilehome homeowners and residents by affording them an additional avenue to enforce violations of the MRL. The Department of Housing and Community Development (HCD) administers the program by providing assistance in taking complaints and helping to resolve and coordinate the resolution of those complaints from homeowners and residents relating to the MRL. The HCD contracts with nonprofit legal service providers and refers complaints of alleged MRL violations to these legal service providers. The HCD may not arbitrate, mediate, negotiate, or provide legal advice in connection with mobilehome park rent disputes, lease or rental agreements, or disputes arising from lease or rental agreements, but may provide information on these issues to the complaining party, management, or other responsible party. The MRLPP is funded by an annual registration fee of $10.00 for each permitted mobilehome lot, collected from management, which management may pass on and collect from the homeowner at the time of rent payment. The annual MRLPP registration fee must appear as a separate line item on the rent bill and be accompanied by a clear written description of the purposes of the charge, along with contact information for the HCD. For questions regarding the fee or the MRLPP, contact: the HCD at [email protected] or by calling (800) 952-8356.” 2) Makes non-substantive changes to the relevant section of the Civil Code to use gender neutral terms and pronouns.
SB 1190 (Laird) Status: Chapter 162, Statutes of 2024
Summary: Makes it unlawful for any mobilehome park owner, park cooperative, condominium for mobilehomes or resident owned mobilehome park to effectively restrict or prohibit the installation or use of a solar energy system through any covenant, contract, restriction in a rental agreement or any other instrument affecting the tenancy of a homeowner or resident in a mobilehome park.
Prohibits a mobilehome park from prohibiting or restricting the installation and use of solar energy systems on mobilehomes or their lots, with an exception for reasonable restrictions, as specified. Assembly Amendments remove the provisions that assign liability and provides for the award of reasonable attorney’s fees to any entity that willfully violates the bill’s provisions for a homeowner or resident in a mobilehome park, and changes the maximum civil penalty for when an entity willfully violates the bill’s provisions relating to a subdivision, cooperative, or condominium for mobilehomes, or resident-owned mobilehome parks from $1,000 to $2,000.
SB 1408 (Roth) Status: Chapter 79, Statutes of 2024
Summary: This bill amends the provisions of the Mobilehome Residency Law to 1.) prohibit a mobilehome park’s management from removing a vehicle from a mobilehome owner or resident’s driveway, designated parking space, or space provided by management if the vehicle is required by the mobilehome owner for work or employment, or if trades or services are advertised on the vehicle, with specified exceptions.
2) Excepts for this prohibition any circumstance where: a) Any part of the vehicle extends into the park roadway. b) Where the vehicle poses a significant danger to the health or safety of a park resident or guest. c) Where the resident or owner requests to have the vehicle removed from their driveway or designated parking space and authorizes management to remove the vehicle pursuant to existing law provisions governing the towing and removal of vehicles from private property.
Summary: This bill authorizes management to provide notice through electronic communication, if consented to by the homeowner or resident
AB 2304 (Lee) Masking Mobilehome Unlawful Detainer Cases Status: Chapter 711, Statutes of 2024.
Summary: This bill will apply California masking laws to unlawful detainer cases for mobilehome residents.
Existing law requires the court clerk to allow specified persons access to case records, including the court file, index, and register of actions, filed in unlawful detainer actions that are limited civil cases. Existing law requires that this access must be given to any other person 60 days after the complaint has been filed if judgment against all defendants has been entered for the plaintiff within 60 days of the filing of the complaint, and other persons as specified. Existing law exempts from these requirements records in a case that seeks to terminate a mobilehome park tenancy if the statement of the character of the proceeding in the caption of the complaint clearly indicates that the complaint seeks termination of a mobilehome park tenancy.
The bill would delete the exemption for access to case records for cases that seek to terminate a mobilehome tenancy, as specified.
AB 1849 (Grayson) Status: Chapter 196, Statutes of 2024
Summary: Clarifies that buyers of motor homes whose vehicles cannot be repaired to meet the terms of the express warranties after a reasonable number of attempts, are not required to accept a replacement motor home. Instead, they have the option to choose reimbursement.
Provides that, if the manufacturer or its representative in this state does not service or repair a travel trailer or a portion of motor homes designed, used, or maintained for human habitation to conform to the applicable express warranties after a reasonable number of attempts, the buyer is free to elect reimbursement in lieu of replacement, and in no event will the buyer be required by the manufacturer to accept a replacement travel trailer or motor home.
Amendments Add motor homes or a portion of a motor home designed, used, or maintained for human habitation to the items covered by the bill.
AB 2247 (Wallis) Status: Chapter 387, Statutes of 2024
Summary: Extends the repeal date to January 1, 2030, for the pre-inspection notice required by Health & Safety Code section 18400.1, the notice of code violations required by Section 18420, and the applicable $4 per lot fee authorized by Section 18502(c)(2). This bill will also require enforcement agencies to also include with the notice of violation a list of local recipients of loans from the Manufactured Housing Opportunity and Revitalization (MORE) program in addition to the list of local agencies that have home repair programs for which registered owners of manufactured homes may be eligible.
Extends the sunset date on the Mobilehome Parks Act (MPA) from January 1, 2025 to January 1, 2030, and requires the Department of Housing and Community Development (HCD) to add local recipients of loans from the Manufactured Housing Opportunity and Revitalization (MORE) Program to the list of local agencies that have home repair or rehabilitation programs to be provided to mobilehome owners who receive a notice of violation (NOV).
Amendments 1) Delete the requirement for a NOV to include information about the MORE Program, and instead require HCD to add local recipients of loans from the MORE Program to the list of local agencies that have home repair or rehabilitation programs to be provided to owners who receive a NOV. 2) Add chaptering language.
AB 2373 (Rendon) Status: Chapter 395, Statutes of 2024
Summary: Limits the ability of mobilehome park management to terminate a tenancy for nonpayment or for a change of park use unless the park has a valid permit to operate issued by the enforcement agency.
Amendments Clarify that park management may not terminate a tenancy for nonpayment or for a change of park use unless the park has a valid permit to operate issued by the enforcement agency, rather than during the period of any suspension or expiration of the permit to operate.
AB 2387 (Pellerin) Status: Chapter 396, Statutes of 2024
Summary: Allows an existing mobilehome park owner to apply to the applicable enforcement agency to add lots, including multifamily manufactured homes on a lot previously occupied by a single-family mobilehome or manufactured home, to the mobilehome park not to exceed 10% of the previously approved number of lots in the park, if the park owner has a valid operating permit that has not been suspended. The bill would exempt the additional lots from any business tax, local registration fee, use permit fee, or other fee, except those fees that apply to the existing lots in the park, and would prohibit the owner from reducing the size of, or interfering with, certain existing facilities without first complying with specified requirements for creating, moving, shifting, or altering lot lines. The bill also provides that a lot occupied by a multifamily manufactured home that was previously occupied by a single-family home is not considered “new construction” for the purposes of Civil Code Section 798.45, and that the conversion of single-family lots cannot be the basis for closing or converting that portion of the park into another use. Lastly, this bill would prohibit the enforcement agency, city, or county from requiring a conditional use permit, zoning variance, or other zoning approval in order to add the lots. By requiring a city or county to ministerially approve a project to add the mobilehome park lots described above, this bill would exempt those projects from the requirement to prepare a CEQA environmental impact report.
The bill would include findings that changes proposed by this bill address a matter of statewide concern rather than a municipal affair and, therefore, apply to all cities, including charter cities.
AB 2399 (Rendon) Status: Chapter 397, Statutes of 2024
Summary: Requires a notice regarding the Mobilehome Residency Law Protection Program (MRLPP), and how to contact the program, to be included in a specified notice of a mobilehome owner and mobilehome park’s rights and responsibilities that the mobilehome park must provide to all mobilehome owners on an annual basis and as part of the rental agreement.
Requires that, as part of the notice required to be included in the rental agreement for a mobilehome site and provided to a mobilehome owner prior to February 1 each year, mobilehome park management provide the following specified statement regarding the MRLPP: a) “The mobilehome Residency Law Protection Program (MRLPP), found in Section 18800 et seq. of the Health and Safety Code, protects and safeguards mobilehome homeowners and residents by affording them an additional avenue to enforce violations of the MRL. The Department of Housing and Community Development (HCD) administers the program by providing assistance in taking complaints and helping to resolve and coordinate the resolution of those complaints from homeowners and residents relating to the MRL. The HCD contracts with nonprofit legal service providers and refers complaints of alleged MRL violations to these legal service providers. The HCD may not arbitrate, mediate, negotiate, or provide legal advice in connection with mobilehome park rent disputes, lease or rental agreements, or disputes arising from lease or rental agreements, but may provide information on these issues to the complaining party, management, or other responsible party. The MRLPP is funded by an annual registration fee of $10.00 for each permitted mobilehome lot, collected from management, which management may pass on and collect from the homeowner at the time of rent payment. The annual MRLPP registration fee must appear as a separate line item on the rent bill and be accompanied by a clear written description of the purposes of the charge, along with contact information for the HCD. For questions regarding the fee or the MRLPP, contact: the HCD at [email protected] or by calling (800) 952-8356.” 2) Makes non-substantive changes to the relevant section of the Civil Code to use gender neutral terms and pronouns.
SB 1190 (Laird) Status: Chapter 162, Statutes of 2024
Summary: Makes it unlawful for any mobilehome park owner, park cooperative, condominium for mobilehomes or resident owned mobilehome park to effectively restrict or prohibit the installation or use of a solar energy system through any covenant, contract, restriction in a rental agreement or any other instrument affecting the tenancy of a homeowner or resident in a mobilehome park.
Prohibits a mobilehome park from prohibiting or restricting the installation and use of solar energy systems on mobilehomes or their lots, with an exception for reasonable restrictions, as specified. Assembly Amendments remove the provisions that assign liability and provides for the award of reasonable attorney’s fees to any entity that willfully violates the bill’s provisions for a homeowner or resident in a mobilehome park, and changes the maximum civil penalty for when an entity willfully violates the bill’s provisions relating to a subdivision, cooperative, or condominium for mobilehomes, or resident-owned mobilehome parks from $1,000 to $2,000.
SB 1408 (Roth) Status: Chapter 79, Statutes of 2024
Summary: This bill amends the provisions of the Mobilehome Residency Law to 1.) prohibit a mobilehome park’s management from removing a vehicle from a mobilehome owner or resident’s driveway, designated parking space, or space provided by management if the vehicle is required by the mobilehome owner for work or employment, or if trades or services are advertised on the vehicle, with specified exceptions.
2) Excepts for this prohibition any circumstance where: a) Any part of the vehicle extends into the park roadway. b) Where the vehicle poses a significant danger to the health or safety of a park resident or guest. c) Where the resident or owner requests to have the vehicle removed from their driveway or designated parking space and authorizes management to remove the vehicle pursuant to existing law provisions governing the towing and removal of vehicles from private property.