California 2015-2016 Regular Session Status: Enacted

SB 944 — Housing omnibus.

Last action — Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 714, Statutes of 2016.

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This bill has been enacted into law. Introduced February 03, 2016. Enacted.

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Summary

(1) Existing law, the Contractors' State License Law, provides for the licensure and regulation of contractors by the Contractors' State License Board. Existing law imposes specified requirements on home improvement contracts and service and repair contracts. Existing law makes it a misdemeanor for a person to engage in the business or act in the capacity of a contractor without a license and provides certain exemptions from that licensure requirement, including exemptions for owner-builders, as specified. This bill would provide an additional exemption for a nonprofit corporation providing assistance to an owner-builder who is participating in a mutual self-help housing program, as specified. (2) The Mobilehome Residency Law governs tenancies in mobilehome parks and, among other things, authorizes the management of a mobilehome park, under specified circumstances, to either remove the mobilehome from the premises and place it in storage or store the mobilehome on its site. Existing law provides the management with a warehouse lien for these costs and imposes various duties on the management to enforce this lien, including requiring the management to file a notice with the county tax collector of the management's intent to apply to have the mobilehome designated for disposal after a warehouse lien sale and a notice of disposal with the Department of Housing and Community Development no less than 10 days after the date of sale to enforce the lien against the mobilehome in order to dispose of a mobilehome after a warehouse lien sale, as specified. This bill would instead require the management to file a notice of intent to apply to have a mobilehome designated for disposal with the tax collector and a notice of disposal with the department no less than 30 days after the date of sale to enforce the lien against the mobilehome. Existing law also establishes procedures by which the management may dispose of an abandoned mobilehome, including requiring that the management file a notice of disposal with the department, and to post and mail a notice of intent to dispose of the abandoned mobilehome, as specified. The Manufactured Housing Act of 1980 requires the department to enforce various laws pertaining to manufactured housing, mobilehomes, park trailers, commercial coaches, special purpose commercial coaches, and recreational vehicles. This bill would require the management to post and mail the notice of intent to dispose of the abandoned mobilehome within 10 days following a judgment of abandonment and would require the management to file a notice of disposal with the department within 30 days following a judgment of abandonment, as specified. This bill would authorize the department to adopt guidelines related to procedures and forms to implement the above-described disposal procedures for mobilehomes after a warehouse lien sale and for abandoned mobilehomes until regulations are adopted by the department to replace those guidelines. (3) Existing law specifies cause for eviction of participants in transitional housing programs, as defined, and establishes a procedure for evicting program participants for specified serious violations of the program's requirements, rules, or regulations. Existing law authorizes a program operator to seek, on his or her own behalf or on behalf of other participants or persons residing within 100 feet of the program site, a temporary restraining order and an injunction prohibiting abuse or misconduct by the participant, the violation of which is a misdemeanor. Existing law provides procedures for the program operator to exclude the participant from the program site and recover the dwelling unit. This bill would recast these provisions and repeal identical provisions regarding eviction of participants in transitional housing programs in the Health and Safety Code. (4) Existing law voids any term in a lease renewed or extended on or after January 1, 2015, that conveys any possessory interest in commercial property that either prohibits or unreasonably restricts, as defined, the installation or use of an electric vehicle charging station in a parking space associated with the commercial property. Existing law defines "electric vehicle charging station" or "charging station" for these purposes as a station designed in compliance with specified provisions of the National Electrical Code that delivers electricity from a source outside an electric vehicle into one or more electric vehicles. This bill would instead define the term "electric vehicle charging station" or "charging station" by reference to specified provisions of the California Electrical Code. (5) The Davis-Stirling Common Interest Development Act, among other things, requires that the declaration, as defined, of a common interest development include certain specified information and allows for amendments to the declaration pursuant to either the declaration or the provisions of the act. Under existing law, an amendment to a declaration is generally effective after certain specified requirements are met, except as provided. This bill would clarify that the exception from those requirements includes alternative procedures established in other specified provisions of the act for approving, certifying, or recording an amendment. Existing law also provides that any provision, except for a reasonable restriction, as defined, of a governing document, as defined, of a common interest development is void and unenforceable if it effectively prohibits or unreasonably restricts the use of a clothesline or a drying rack, as defined, in an owner's backyard. This bill would make nonsubstantive changes to this provision. Existing law also requires the association of a common interest development to distribute to its members an Assessment and Reserve Funding Disclosure Summary form containing specified information, including whether currently projected reserve account balances will be sufficient at the end of each year to meet the association's obligation for repair or replacement of major components during the next 30 years and that all major components are included in the reserve study and its calculations. Existing law defines "major component" for these purposes by reference to a specified statute. This bill would correct an erroneous reference to the statutory definition of "major component" for these purposes. (6) Under the California Fair Employment and Housing Act, the owner of a housing accommodation is prohibited from discriminating against or harassing any person on the basis of certain personal characteristics, including familial status. The act provides that its provisions relating to discrimination based on familial status do not apply to housing for older persons, defined to include, among others, mobilehome parks that meet the standards for "housing for older persons" contained in the federal Fair Housing Amendments Act of 1988. This bill would instead require, for this purpose, mobilehome parks to meet the standards for "housing for older persons" contained in the federal Fair Housing Act, as amended by Public Law 104–76. (7) The Planning and Zoning Law requires a city or county to prepare and adopt a comprehensive, long-term general plan and requires the general plan to include certain mandatory elements, including a housing element. That law also requires the housing element, in turn, to include, among other things, an assessment of housing needs and an inventory of resources and constraints relevant to the meeting of those needs. That law further requires the Department of Housing and Community Development, for specified revisions of the housing element, to determine the existing and projected need for housing for each region, as specified. This bill would make technical, nonsubstantive changes to this provision. (8) A provision of the Planning and Zoning Law requires an owner of an assisted housing development proposing the termination of a subsidy contract or prepayment of governmental assistance or of an assisted housing development in which there will be the expiration of rental restrictions to provide a notice of the proposed change to each affected tenant household residing in the assisted housing development, as specified. For the purposes of this requirement, existing law defines "assisted housing development" to mean a multifamily rental housing development that receives governmental assistance under specified programs, including tax-exempt private activity mortgage revenue bonds pursuant to a specified federal statute. This bill would provide that "assisted housing development" includes a development receiving assistance from tax-exempt private activity mortgage revenue bonds pursuant to the predecessors of that specified federal statute. (9) The California Building Standards Law provides for the adoption of building standards by state agencies by requiring all state agencies that adopt or propose adoption of any building standard to submit the building standard to the California Building Standards Commission for approval and adoption. Existing law requires an adopting agency to submit the notice and initial statement of reasons for proposed building standards to the commission. If, after review, the commission determines that the notice and initial statement of reasons comply with the Administrative Procedure Act, existing law requires that the commission submit those documents to the Office of Administrative Law for the sole purpose of inclusion in the California Regulatory Notice Register. This bill would instead require that the commission submit only the notice to the Office of Administrative Law. (10) Existing law defines the term "housing sponsor" for the purpose of various housing and home finance programs administered by the Department of Housing and Community Development to include various entities, including the duly constituted governing body of an Indian reservation or rancheria, certified by the California Housing Finance Agency as qualified to either own, construct, acquire, or rehabilitate a housing development and subject to the regulatory powers of the agency, as specified. This bill would expand the definition of "housing sponsor" to include a tribally designated housing entity. The bill would define "tribally designated housing entity" by reference to a specified provision of the federal Native American Housing Assistance and Self-Determination Act of 1996. (11) The State Housing Law requires the Department of Housing and Community Development to notify specified entities of the dates that each of the uniform codes published by specified organizations are approved by the California Building Standards Commission. Existing law also requires the building regulations and rules adopted by the department to impose substantially the same requirements as are contained in the more recent editions of various uniform industry codes, as specified. This bill would additionally require the department to notify those entities of the dates that each of the international codes published by specified organizations are approved by the California Building Standards Commission. The bill would additionally require the building regulations and rules adopted by the department to impose substantially the same requirements as are contained in the most recent editions of various international industry codes, as specified, and would make conforming changes. (12) Existing law requires all water closets and urinals installed or sold in this state to meet specified requirements. Under existing law, these provisions are operative until January 1, 2014, or until the date on which the California Building Standards Commission includes standards in the California Building Standards Code that conform to these requirements. This bill would repeal this provision. (13) Existing law, until January 1, 1998, authorized the use of Chlorinated polyvinyl chloride (CPVC) piping in building construction in California, as specified. This bill would repeal this provision. (14) Existing law prohibits a residential structure that is moved into, or within, the jurisdiction of a local agency or the department from being treated as a new building structure, as specified. This bill would make a technical change to this provision. (15) Existing law requires a city or county to administratively approve applications to install solar energy systems through the issuance of a building permit or similar nondiscretionary permit, as specified. This bill would make a technical change to this provision. (16) Existing law authorizes the Department of Housing and Community Development to make loans from the Mobilehome Park Rehabilitation and Purchase Fund, a continuously appropriated fund, to, among other things, make loans to resident organizations or qualified nonprofit sponsors for the purpose of assisting lower income households in making needed repairs or accessibility-related upgrades to their mobilehomes, if specified criteria are met. This bill would additionally authorize loans to these entities to assist lower income households in replacing their mobilehomes. By authorizing the expenditure of moneys in a continuously appropriated fund for a new purpose, this bill would make an appropriation. (17) Existing law requires the Department of Housing and Community Development to administer the Emergency Housing and Assistance Program. Under the program, moneys from the continuously appropriated Emergency Housing and Assistance Fund are available for the purposes of providing shelter, as specified, to homeless persons at as low of a cost and as quickly as possible, without compromising the health and safety of shelter occupants, to encourage the move of homeless persons from shelters to a self-supporting environment as soon as possible, to encourage provision of services for as many persons at risk of homelessness as possible, to encourage compatible and effective funding of homeless services, and to encourage coordination among public agencies that fund or provide services to homeless individuals, as well as agencies that discharge people from their institutions. The Housing and Emergency Shelter Trust Fund Acts of 2002 and 2006, enacted as Proposition 46 at the November 5, 2002, statewide general election and Proposition 1C at the November 7, 2006, statewide general election, respectively, authorized the issuance of bonds pursuant to the State General Obligation Bond Law to fund various housing programs administered by the department, including the Multifamily Housing Program. Under the acts, specified amounts of funds are transferred to the Emergency Housing and Assistance Fund to be distributed in the form of capital development grants under the Emergency Housing and Assistance Program and for supportive housing. This bill would authorize the department to transfer any unobligated Proposition 46 and Proposition 1C bond funds in the Emergency Housing and Assistance Fund to the Housing Rehabilitation Loan Fund, less any funds needed for state operations to support outstanding awards as determined by the Department of Housing and Community Development, to be expended for the Multifamily Housing Program for supportive housing for a specified target population. By authorizing additional moneys to be transferred to a continuously appropriated fund, this bill would make an appropriation.

Bill Text

Action History

  1. Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 714, Statutes of 2016.

  2. Approved by the Governor.

  3. Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 5 p.m.

  4. Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 39. Noes 0. Page 5496.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling.

  5. Ordered to special consent calendar.

  6. In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.

  7. Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 79. Noes 0. Page 6022.) Ordered to the Senate.

  8. Ordered to third reading.

  9. Read third time and amended.

  10. Ordered to third reading.

  11. From consent calendar on motion of Assembly Member Calderon.

  12. Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar.

  13. From committee: Do pass. Ordered to consent calendar. (Ayes 20. Noes 0.) (August 3).

  14. From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR.

  15. From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To consent calendar. (Ayes 10. Noes 0.) (June 21). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.

  16. Re-referred to Com. on JUD. pursuant to Assembly Rule 97.

  17. Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar.

  18. From committee: Do pass. Ordered to consent calendar. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (June 15).

  19. From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on H. & C.D.

  20. Referred to Coms. on H. & C.D. and JUD.

  21. In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk.

  22. Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 37. Noes 0. Page 3842.) Ordered to the Assembly.

  23. Read second time. Ordered to third reading.

  24. From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 7. Noes 0. Page 3741.) (May 2).

  25. Set for hearing May 2.

  26. April 25 hearing postponed by committee.

  27. Set for hearing April 25.

  28. Re-referred to Com. on APPR.

  29. Withdrawn from committee.

  30. Re-referred to Com. on JUD.

  31. Withdrawn from committee.

  32. From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To consent calendar. (Ayes 10. Noes 0. Page 3396.) (April 5). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.

  33. From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on T. & H.

  34. Set for hearing April 5.

  35. Referred to Coms. on T. & H. and JUD.

  36. From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 5.

  37. Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print.

Sponsors

  • Committee on Transportation and Housing · Primary

Sponsorship breakdown

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Sponsors (1)

  • Committee on Transportation and Housing

Co-sponsors (0)

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Votes

Special Consent SB944 Committee On T.&H.

Passed 39 Yea · 0 Nay
Party YeaNayPresentNot Voting
Unaffiliated 36000
Democratic 3000
Total 39000
% of votes cast 100%0%0%0%
How each member voted (39)
Member Party Vote
Bates — Yea
Block — Yea
Hill — Yea
Huff — Yea
Leyva — Yea
Monning — Yea
Pavley — Yea
Roth — Yea
Wieckowski — Yea
Fuller — Yea
Glazer — Yea
Allen — Yea
Cannella — Yea
Mitchell — Yea
De León — Yea
Galgiani — Yea
Hall — Yea
Hancock — Yea
Hernandez — Yea
Hertzberg — Yea
Anderson — Yea
Beall — Yea
Hueso — Yea
Lara — Yea
Leno — Yea
Liu — Yea
Mendoza — Yea
Moorlach — Yea
Morrell — Yea
Nielsen — Yea
Pan — Yea
Vidak — Yea
Wolk — Yea
Beth Gaines — Yea
Bill Berryhill — Yea
Mark Stone — Yea
Jackson, Corey A. Democratic Yea
McGuire, Mike Democratic Yea
Nguyen, Stephanie Democratic Yea

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SB 944 T. & H. Senate Third Reading By CHIU

Passed 79 Yea · 0 Nay · 1 Other
Party YeaNayPresentNot Voting
Unaffiliated 69001
Democratic 5000
Republican 5000
Total 79001
% of votes cast 99%0%0%1%
How each member voted (80)
Member Party Vote
Achadjian — Yea
Alejo — Yea
Bloom — Yea
Brough — Yea
Brown — Yea
Holden — Yea
Kim — Yea
Maienschein — Yea
Mathis — Yea
Mayes — Yea
O'Donnell — Yea
Steinorth — Yea
Wagner — Yea
Weber — Yea
Eggman — Yea
Dababneh — Yea
Daly — Yea
Frazier — Yea
Gomez — Yea
Harper — Yea
Linder — Yea
Salas — Yea
Low — Yea
McCarty — Yea
Nazarian — Yea
Obernolte — Yea
Olsen — Yea
Chau — Yea
Chu — Yea
Cooley — Yea
Cooper — Yea
Rendon — Yea
Ridley-Thomas — Yea
Rodriguez — Yea
Wilk — Yea
Williams — Yea
Burke — Yea
Gatto — Yea
Gordon — Yea
Gray — Yea
Atkins — Yea
Campos — Yea
Bonilla — Yea
Lopez — Yea
Jones-Sawyer — Yea
Chang — Yea
Baker — Yea
Bigelow — Yea
Chiu — Yea
Chávez — Yea
Dodd — Yea
Levine — Yea
Medina — Yea
Melendez — Not Voting
Mullin — Yea
Quirk — Yea
Santiago — Yea
Thurmond — Yea
Ting — Yea
Waldron — Yea
Wood — Yea
Hadley — Yea
Beth Gaines — Yea
Cristina Garcia — Yea
Eduardo Garcia — Yea
Jim Patterson — Yea
Lorena Gonzalez — Yea
Mark Stone — Yea
Roger Hernández — Yea
Travis Allen — Yea
Arambula, Joaquin Democratic Yea
Bonta, Mia Democratic Yea
Calderon, Lisa Democratic Yea
Gipson, Mike A. Democratic Yea
Irwin, Jacqui Democratic Yea
Dahle, Megan Republican Yea
Gallagher, James Republican Yea
Grove, Shannon Republican Yea
Jones, Brian W. Republican Yea
Lackey, Tom Republican Yea

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Do pass. To Consent Calendar.

Passed 20 Yea · 0 Nay
Party YeaNayPresentNot Voting
Democratic 2000
Unaffiliated 16000
Republican 2000
Total 20000
% of votes cast 100%0%0%0%
How each member voted (20)
Member Party Vote
Santiago — Yea
Eggman — Yea
Chang — Yea
Chau — Yea
Bonilla — Yea
Daly — Yea
Holden — Yea
Bigelow — Yea
Bloom — Yea
Obernolte — Yea
Quirk — Yea
Wagner — Yea
Weber — Yea
Wood — Yea
Eduardo Garcia — Yea
Lorena Gonzalez — Yea
Bonta, Mia Democratic Yea
Calderon, Lisa Democratic Yea
Gallagher, James Republican Yea
Jones, Brian W. Republican Yea

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Do pass. To Consent Calendar.

Passed 7 Yea · 0 Nay
Party YeaNayPresentNot Voting
Unaffiliated 7000
Total 7000
% of votes cast 100%0%0%0%
How each member voted (7)
Member Party Vote
Mullin — Yea
Chiu — Yea
Lopez — Yea
Burke — Yea
Chau — Yea
Steinorth — Yea
Beth Gaines — Yea

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3rd Reading SB944 Committee On T.&H.

Passed 37 Yea · 0 Nay · 3 Other
Party YeaNayPresentNot Voting
Unaffiliated 34003
Democratic 3000
Total 37003
% of votes cast 93%0%0%8%
How each member voted (40)
Member Party Vote
Anderson — Yea
Beall — Yea
Block — Yea
Hill — Yea
Huff — Yea
Leyva — Yea
Moorlach — Yea
Nielsen — Yea
Pavley — Yea
Fuller — Yea
Galgiani — Yea
Glazer — Yea
Hall — Yea
Hernandez — Yea
Allen — Yea
Cannella — Yea
Hertzberg — Yea
Mitchell — Yea
De León — Yea
Bates — Yea
Hueso — Yea
Lara — Yea
Leno — Yea
Mendoza — Yea
Monning — Yea
Morrell — Yea
Pan — Yea
Roth — Yea
Vidak — Yea
Wieckowski — Yea
Wolk — Yea
Runner — Not Voting
Liu — Not Voting
Hancock — Yea
Beth Gaines — Yea
Bill Berryhill — Not Voting
Mark Stone — Yea
Jackson, Corey A. Democratic Yea
McGuire, Mike Democratic Yea
Nguyen, Stephanie Democratic Yea

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Do pass

Passed 7 Yea · 0 Nay
Party YeaNayPresentNot Voting
Unaffiliated 6000
Democratic 1000
Total 7000
% of votes cast 100%0%0%0%
How each member voted (7)
Member Party Vote
Bates — Yea
Lara — Yea
Mendoza — Yea
Hill — Yea
Beall — Yea
Nielsen — Yea
McGuire, Mike Democratic Yea

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Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with the recommendation: To Consent Calendar

Passed 10 Yea · 0 Nay · 1 Other
Party YeaNayPresentNot Voting
Unaffiliated 9001
Democratic 1000
Total 10001
% of votes cast 91%0%0%9%
How each member voted (11)
Member Party Vote
Galgiani — Yea
Allen — Yea
Cannella — Yea
Leyva — Yea
Bates — Yea
Beall — Yea
Mendoza — Yea
Roth — Yea
Wieckowski — Yea
Beth Gaines — Not Voting
McGuire, Mike Democratic Yea

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Subjects

housing
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Frequently asked questions

What does SB 944 do?
(1) Existing law, the Contractors' State License Law, provides for the licensure and regulation of contractors by the Contractors' State License Board. Existing law imposes specified requirements on home improvement contracts and service and repair contracts. Existing law makes it a misdemeanor for a person to engage in the business or act in the capacity of a contractor without a license and provides certain exemptions from that licensure requirement, including exemptions for owner-builders, as specified. This bill would provide an additional exemption for a nonprofit corporation providing assistance to an owner-builder who is participating in a mutual self-help housing program, as specified. (2) The Mobilehome Residency Law governs tenancies in mobilehome parks and, among other things, authorizes the management of a mobilehome park, under specified circumstances, to either remove the mobilehome from the premises and place it in storage or store the mobilehome on its site. Existing law provides the management with a warehouse lien for these costs and imposes various duties on the management to enforce this lien, including requiring the management to file a notice with the county tax collector of the management's intent to apply to have the mobilehome designated for disposal after a warehouse lien sale and a notice of disposal with the Department of Housing and Community Development no less than 10 days after the date of sale to enforce the lien against the mobilehome in order to dispose of a mobilehome after a warehouse lien sale, as specified. This bill would instead require the management to file a notice of intent to apply to have a mobilehome designated for disposal with the tax collector and a notice of disposal with the department no less than 30 days after the date of sale to enforce the lien against the mobilehome. Existing law also establishes procedures by which the management may dispose of an abandoned mobilehome, including requiring that the management file a notice of disposal with the department, and to post and mail a notice of intent to dispose of the abandoned mobilehome, as specified. The Manufactured Housing Act of 1980 requires the department to enforce various laws pertaining to manufactured housing, mobilehomes, park trailers, commercial coaches, special purpose commercial coaches, and recreational vehicles. This bill would require the management to post and mail the notice of intent to dispose of the abandoned mobilehome within 10 days following a judgment of abandonment and would require the management to file a notice of disposal with the department within 30 days following a judgment of abandonment, as specified. This bill would authorize the department to adopt guidelines related to procedures and forms to implement the above-described disposal procedures for mobilehomes after a warehouse lien sale and for abandoned mobilehomes until regulations are adopted by the department to replace those guidelines. (3) Existing law specifies cause for eviction of participants in transitional housing programs, as defined, and establishes a procedure for evicting program participants for specified serious violations of the program's requirements, rules, or regulations. Existing law authorizes a program operator to seek, on his or her own behalf or on behalf of other participants or persons residing within 100 feet of the program site, a temporary restraining order and an injunction prohibiting abuse or misconduct by the participant, the violation of which is a misdemeanor. Existing law provides procedures for the program operator to exclude the participant from the program site and recover the dwelling unit. This bill would recast these provisions and repeal identical provisions regarding eviction of participants in transitional housing programs in the Health and Safety Code. (4) Existing law voids any term in a lease renewed or extended on or after January 1, 2015, that conveys any possessory interest in commercial property that either prohibits or unreasonably restricts, as defined, the installation or use of an electric vehicle charging station in a parking space associated with the commercial property. Existing law defines "electric vehicle charging station" or "charging station" for these purposes as a station designed in compliance with specified provisions of the National Electrical Code that delivers electricity from a source outside an electric vehicle into one or more electric vehicles. This bill would instead define the term "electric vehicle charging station" or "charging station" by reference to specified provisions of the California Electrical Code. (5) The Davis-Stirling Common Interest Development Act, among other things, requires that the declaration, as defined, of a common interest development include certain specified information and allows for amendments to the declaration pursuant to either the declaration or the provisions of the act. Under existing law, an amendment to a declaration is generally effective after certain specified requirements are met, except as provided. This bill would clarify that the exception from those requirements includes alternative procedures established in other specified provisions of the act for approving, certifying, or recording an amendment. Existing law also provides that any provision, except for a reasonable restriction, as defined, of a governing document, as defined, of a common interest development is void and unenforceable if it effectively prohibits or unreasonably restricts the use of a clothesline or a drying rack, as defined, in an owner's backyard. This bill would make nonsubstantive changes to this provision. Existing law also requires the association of a common interest development to distribute to its members an Assessment and Reserve Funding Disclosure Summary form containing specified information, including whether currently projected reserve account balances will be sufficient at the end of each year to meet the association's obligation for repair or replacement of major components during the next 30 years and that all major components are included in the reserve study and its calculations. Existing law defines "major component" for these purposes by reference to a specified statute. This bill would correct an erroneous reference to the statutory definition of "major component" for these purposes. (6) Under the California Fair Employment and Housing Act, the owner of a housing accommodation is prohibited from discriminating against or harassing any person on the basis of certain personal characteristics, including familial status. The act provides that its provisions relating to discrimination based on familial status do not apply to housing for older persons, defined to include, among others, mobilehome parks that meet the standards for "housing for older persons" contained in the federal Fair Housing Amendments Act of 1988. This bill would instead require, for this purpose, mobilehome parks to meet the standards for "housing for older persons" contained in the federal Fair Housing Act, as amended by Public Law 104–76. (7) The Planning and Zoning Law requires a city or county to prepare and adopt a comprehensive, long-term general plan and requires the general plan to include certain mandatory elements, including a housing element. That law also requires the housing element, in turn, to include, among other things, an assessment of housing needs and an inventory of resources and constraints relevant to the meeting of those needs. That law further requires the Department of Housing and Community Development, for specified revisions of the housing element, to determine the existing and projected need for housing for each region, as specified. This bill would make technical, nonsubstantive changes to this provision. (8) A provision of the Planning and Zoning Law requires an owner of an assisted housing development proposing the termination of a subsidy contract or prepayment of governmental assistance or of an assisted housing development in which there will be the expiration of rental restrictions to provide a notice of the proposed change to each affected tenant household residing in the assisted housing development, as specified. For the purposes of this requirement, existing law defines "assisted housing development" to mean a multifamily rental housing development that receives governmental assistance under specified programs, including tax-exempt private activity mortgage revenue bonds pursuant to a specified federal statute. This bill would provide that "assisted housing development" includes a development receiving assistance from tax-exempt private activity mortgage revenue bonds pursuant to the predecessors of that specified federal statute. (9) The California Building Standards Law provides for the adoption of building standards by state agencies by requiring all state agencies that adopt or propose adoption of any building standard to submit the building standard to the California Building Standards Commission for approval and adoption. Existing law requires an adopting agency to submit the notice and initial statement of reasons for proposed building standards to the commission. If, after review, the commission determines that the notice and initial statement of reasons comply with the Administrative Procedure Act, existing law requires that the commission submit those documents to the Office of Administrative Law for the sole purpose of inclusion in the California Regulatory Notice Register. This bill would instead require that the commission submit only the notice to the Office of Administrative Law. (10) Existing law defines the term "housing sponsor" for the purpose of various housing and home finance programs administered by the Department of Housing and Community Development to include various entities, including the duly constituted governing body of an Indian reservation or rancheria, certified by the California Housing Finance Agency as qualified to either own, construct, acquire, or rehabilitate a housing development and subject to the regulatory powers of the agency, as specified. This bill would expand the definition of "housing sponsor" to include a tribally designated housing entity. The bill would define "tribally designated housing entity" by reference to a specified provision of the federal Native American Housing Assistance and Self-Determination Act of 1996. (11) The State Housing Law requires the Department of Housing and Community Development to notify specified entities of the dates that each of the uniform codes published by specified organizations are approved by the California Building Standards Commission. Existing law also requires the building regulations and rules adopted by the department to impose substantially the same requirements as are contained in the more recent editions of various uniform industry codes, as specified. This bill would additionally require the department to notify those entities of the dates that each of the international codes published by specified organizations are approved by the California Building Standards Commission. The bill would additionally require the building regulations and rules adopted by the department to impose substantially the same requirements as are contained in the most recent editions of various international industry codes, as specified, and would make conforming changes. (12) Existing law requires all water closets and urinals installed or sold in this state to meet specified requirements. Under existing law, these provisions are operative until January 1, 2014, or until the date on which the California Building Standards Commission includes standards in the California Building Standards Code that conform to these requirements. This bill would repeal this provision. (13) Existing law, until January 1, 1998, authorized the use of Chlorinated polyvinyl chloride (CPVC) piping in building construction in California, as specified. This bill would repeal this provision. (14) Existing law prohibits a residential structure that is moved into, or within, the jurisdiction of a local agency or the department from being treated as a new building structure, as specified. This bill would make a technical change to this provision. (15) Existing law requires a city or county to administratively approve applications to install solar energy systems through the issuance of a building permit or similar nondiscretionary permit, as specified. This bill would make a technical change to this provision. (16) Existing law authorizes the Department of Housing and Community Development to make loans from the Mobilehome Park Rehabilitation and Purchase Fund, a continuously appropriated fund, to, among other things, make loans to resident organizations or qualified nonprofit sponsors for the purpose of assisting lower income households in making needed repairs or accessibility-related upgrades to their mobilehomes, if specified criteria are met. This bill would additionally authorize loans to these entities to assist lower income households in replacing their mobilehomes. By authorizing the expenditure of moneys in a continuously appropriated fund for a new purpose, this bill would make an appropriation. (17) Existing law requires the Department of Housing and Community Development to administer the Emergency Housing and Assistance Program. Under the program, moneys from the continuously appropriated Emergency Housing and Assistance Fund are available for the purposes of providing shelter, as specified, to homeless persons at as low of a cost and as quickly as possible, without compromising the health and safety of shelter occupants, to encourage the move of homeless persons from shelters to a self-supporting environment as soon as possible, to encourage provision of services for as many persons at risk of homelessness as possible, to encourage compatible and effective funding of homeless services, and to encourage coordination among public agencies that fund or provide services to homeless individuals, as well as agencies that discharge people from their institutions. The Housing and Emergency Shelter Trust Fund Acts of 2002 and 2006, enacted as Proposition 46 at the November 5, 2002, statewide general election and Proposition 1C at the November 7, 2006, statewide general election, respectively, authorized the issuance of bonds pursuant to the State General Obligation Bond Law to fund various housing programs administered by the department, including the Multifamily Housing Program. Under the acts, specified amounts of funds are transferred to the Emergency Housing and Assistance Fund to be distributed in the form of capital development grants under the Emergency Housing and Assistance Program and for supportive housing. This bill would authorize the department to transfer any unobligated Proposition 46 and Proposition 1C bond funds in the Emergency Housing and Assistance Fund to the Housing Rehabilitation Loan Fund, less any funds needed for state operations to support outstanding awards as determined by the Department of Housing and Community Development, to be expended for the Multifamily Housing Program for supportive housing for a specified target population. By authorizing additional moneys to be transferred to a continuously appropriated fund, this bill would make an appropriation.
Who sponsors SB 944?
SB 944 is sponsored by Committee on Transportation and Housing.
What is the current status of SB 944?
This bill has been enacted into law. Introduced February 03, 2016. Enacted.
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