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SB 6 (Oropeza-D) Subdivisions: local use planning
Requires that the land use element, the conservation element, the safety element, and the open-space element of city and county general plans identify areas which are subject to flooding, based on existing climate predictions regarding ocean levels. Requires cities and counties to deny subdivisions in risky areas. Requires state or local public entities that map and identify flood risk to consider existing climate predictions regarding ocean levels.
(Died in Senate Local Government Committee)

SB 46 (Perata-D) Housing and Emergency Shelter Trust Fund Act of 2006
Provides the statutory framework for expenditure of the $850 million in Proposition 1C's Regional Planning, Housing, and Infill Incentive Account.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

SB 303 (Ducheny-D) Local government: land use planning
Requires transportation agencies to develop different planning scenarios, requires them to submit the scenarios to the Air Resources Board to determine compliance with the goals of the Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006, and makes other changes to the way local governments and transportation agencies plan for future transportation, housing, and land use.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

SB 375 (Steinberg-D) Housing Element: travel demand models
Requires the Air Resources Board to provide each region with greenhouse gas emission reduction targets for the automobile and light truck sector. Requires a regional transportation plan to include a Sustainable Communities Strategy designed to achieve the targets for greenhouse gas emission reduction. Requires the California Transportation Commission to maintain guidelines for travel demand models. Requires cities and counties, in general, to revise their housing elements every eight years in conjunction with the regional transportation plan and complete any necessary re-zonings within a specific time period. Relaxes California Environmental Quality Act requirements for housing developments that are consistent with a Sustainable Communities Strategy.
Chapter 728, Statutes of 2008

SB 429 (Ducheny-D) Land use controls
Requires the California Environmental Protection Agency, the California Integrated Waste Management Board, the State Water Resources Control Board, each regional water quality control board, the Department of Toxic Substances Control, and specified local agencies, to notify the building, planning, or engineering department in the affected city or county if it takes certain actions with regard to approving a remedial action, removal action, closure, corrective action, or any other type of environmental cleanup action. Authorizes the planning, building, and engineering department of a city or county to assess a property owner a reasonable fee, as determined by resolution of its governing body, to cover the costs of taking an action authorized by the bill.
(Died in Senate Environmental Quality Committee)

SB 465 (Lowenthal-D) Housing: grant and loan programs
Provides that a city, county, public housing authority, or redevelopment agency with jurisdiction over a qualifying infill area may apply jointly with a Business Improvement District that includes a qualifying infill area for funds under the Regional Planning, Housing, and Infill Incentive Account. Requires, prior to receiving funds but after a grant award, joint applicants to submit to the Department of Housing and Community Development documentation that the actual number of permitted housing units is equal or greater than the number of units in the grant application.
(Died on Assembly Floor)

SB 522 (Dutton-R) Infill housing: incentives
Authorizes the Department of Housing and Community Development to administer a program to provide grants to cities and counties with allocated bond funds for the construction or acquisition of capital assets, as defined, to qualifying cities, counties, and cities and counties, and sets forth specific criteria upon which the department shall give preference for awarding a grant under this program.
(Died in Senate Rules Committee)

SB 545 (Cox-R) Affordable Housing Innovation Fund
Authorizes the Legislature, in awarding funds from the Affordable Housing Innovation Fund, to review and adopt policies that alleviate identified obstacles associated with the construction of workforce housing in communities residing within the jurisdiction of a bi-state compact.
(Died in Senate Transportation and Housing Committee)

SB 546 (Ducheny-D) Department of Housing and Community Development
Requires that cumulative information on programs funded under the Housing and Emergency Shelter Trust Fund Acts of 2002 and 2006 be included in the Department of Housing and Community Development's annual report. Requires that the department's annual report break out the required information for each program funded by Proposition 46 or Proposition 1C, respectively, and include a cumulative total of this information for all funds distributed under Proposition 46 and Proposition 1C.
(Died on Assembly Inactive File)

SB 585* (Lowenthal-D) Farmworker housing assistance tax credits
Revises an existing tax credit program to change the manner in which the state low-income housing tax credit may be allocated to partners in a limited liability company or a partnership, and thus, allows developers of low-income housing to sell state and federal low-income housing tax credits to separate investors.
Chapter 382, Statutes of 2008

SB 821 (Kuehl-D) Residential development: water supplies
Requires the California Research Bureau to study water use by new residential developments and large-scale development projects under current law.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

SB 870* (Ridley-Thomas-D) California Housing Finance Agency: resolutions
Allows the California Housing Finance Agency to establish a mortgage refinance program through resolutions adopted by the board of directors rather than through promulgated rules and regulations.
Chapter 281, Statutes of 2008

SB 934 (Lowenthal-D) Housing and infrastructure zones
Allows for the creation of up to 100 "housing and infrastructure zones" that divert property tax increment revenues from cities and schools for road, water, sewer, and community amenities to support new residential development, as well as housing directly.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)

SB 1175 (Steinberg-D) Developmental services: regional center housing
Authorizes the Department of Developmental Services to approve regional center proposals for leasing housing for people with developmental disabilities under specified conditions, and adds these and other residential facilities for people with developmental disabilities to the definition of facilities that can be financed by the California Health Facilities Financing Authority.
Chapter 617, Statutes of 2008

SB 1220 (Cedillo-D) Housing: Multifamily Housing Program: veterans
Allows sponsors of permanent supportive housing projects funded under the Multifamily Housing Program to restrict occupancy to veterans who have barriers to social reintegration if the property is owned or leased by the United States Department of Veterans Affairs, or the California Department of Veterans Affairs, and meets other specified requirements.
Chapter 618, Statutes of 2008
A similar bill was SB 713 (Lowenthal-D) which died in Assembly Appropriations Committee.

SB 1247 (Lowenthal-D) Farmworker housing assistance
Consolidates the farmworker housing tax credit program into the state low-income housing tax credit program as a farmworker setaside.
Chapter 521, Statutes of 2008

SB 1278 (Maldonado-R) Building standards: green building construction
Establishes the Green Neighborhood Grant Act to be administered by the California Energy Commission, which will award three grants annually to private developers who meet the requirements of the California Green Builder Program. Each grant will reimburse the developer for up to 1.5% of the development cost. No more than one grant will be given for a development in a city with a population of over 1,000,000. The grants will be paid from the General Fund.
(Died in Senate Energy, Utilities and Commerce Committee)

SB 1473 (Calderon-D) Building standards
Requires cities and counties to collect a fee on building permit applicants, in the amount of $4 per every $100,000 in valuation. Cities and counties will be authorized to retain 10% of the fees collected for administrative costs and code enforcement education, while the remainder will be available to the Building Standards Commission, upon appropriation, for the purpose of funding the development of building standards, with emphasis on the development, adoption, publication, updating, and educational efforts associated with green building standards.
Chapter 719, Statutes of 2008

SB 1572* (Wyland-R) Veterans' Bond Act of 2008
Enacts the Veterans' Bond Act of 2008 which authorizes, for purposes of financing a specified program of farm, home, and mobilehome purchase assistance for veterans, the issuance of bonds in the amount of $900 million, and provides for submission of the Act to the voters at the 11/4/08 general election.
Chapter 122, Statutes of 2008

SB 1689 (Lowenthal-D) Local agencies: redevelopment
Requires redevelopment agencies to tell their city councils (or county boards of supervisors) of any major violations based on an audit or an investigation by the Department of Housing and Community Development. Requires the department to forward its redevelopment audits or investigations to the Attorney General and the State Controller.
Vetoed

AB 29 (Hancock-D) Infill development: incentive grants
Creates the Regional Planning, Housing, and Infill Incentive Grant Program to provide infrastructure grants to cities and counties to support infill development. Provides the necessary implementing language for the expenditure of the $850 million Regional Planning, Housing, and Infill Incentive Account created when Proposition 1C passed in November 2006. Under the program, cities and counties are eligible to apply for grants for infrastructure needed to support an infill housing project. Projects will have to be consistent with the general plan, and the city or county will have to have a certified housing element. In addition, projects will have to be consistent with the zoning ordinance and any applicable specific plan, redevelopment plan, regional blueprint plan, capital improvement plan, or regional transportation plan or transportation corridor plan for which the California Environmental Quality Act has been completed. In ranking projects, the Department of Housing and Community Development will have to consider a variety of factors, such as the number of housing units to be created, the depth and duration of the affordability of the housing, and the local record in producing housing. Defines eligible infrastructure projects to include a broad range of things, from water, sewer, and public utility infrastructure to parks and recreational facilities, and to urban greening projects such as tree planting, landscaping, and community gardens.
(Died in Assembly Housing and Community Development Committee)

AB 82 (Evans-D) Regional housing needs
Requires the regional council of governments, when allocating the housing within Napa County, to allot one unit to the county for the unincorporated area for every nine units allocated to the cities within the county for the incorporated areas, and authorizes Napa County to transfer all or part of its housing assignment to a city within the county, with the consent of that city, as specified.
(Died in Assembly Housing and Community Development Committee)

AB 155* (Nakanishi-R) Energy efficient homes
Provides a credit to a qualified taxpayer for the taxable year in which a qualified energy efficient home is certified. Defines "qualified energy efficient home" as a dwelling unit located in California that is certified as required for the credit claimed. Awards a credit of $2,000, provided that the qualified energy efficient home is certified and specified conditions are met.
(Died in Assembly Revenue and Taxation Committee)

AB 600 (Garcia-R) Housing: homebuyer assistance
Changes the maximum amount of downpayment assistance under the Building Equity and Growth in Neighborhoods Program from 20% of the sale price of the residence, not to exceed $30,000, to an amount to be set in the current notice of funding availability.
(Died in Assembly Rules Committee)

AB 677 (Nakanishi-R) Firefighters' Home Purchase Act of 2007
Enacts the Firefighters' Home Purchase Act of 2007 to assist firefighters to acquire homes in the communities where they provide firefighting services.
(Died in Assembly Housing and Community Development Committee)

AB 762 (Nava-D) Farm labor housing
Makes changes to the Joe Serna, Jr. Farmworker Housing Grant Program to ensure that funds for the housing of California's agricultural workers and their families are used efficiently and made accessible to sponsors that are truly dedicated to service the farmworker population.
(Died on Senate Inactive File)

AB 792* (Garcia-R) Environmentally sustainable affordable housing
Establishes the Environmentally Sustainable Affordable Housing Program; the Construction Liability Reform Pilot Program; the Green Building, Energy Efficiency, and Building Design Program; and the Affordable Housing for Teachers Program.
(Died in Assembly Housing and Community Development Committee)

AB 872 (Davis-D) Urban infill affordable housing
Exempts urban infill affordable housing projects with less than 300 units from the California Environmental Quality Act.
(Died in Assembly Natural Resources Committee)

AB 971 (Portantino-D) Housing: Community Workforce Housing Innovation Program
Establishes the Community Workforce Housing Innovation Program to assist cities, counties, and school districts to recruit and retain public employees by making affordable housing available to those employees.
(Died in Assembly Housing and Community Development Committee)

AB 997 (Arambula-D) Infill capital outlay project and planning grants and loans
Provides direction for distribution of funds from the Housing and Emergency Shelter Trust Fund of 2006, and the Safe Drinking Water, Water Quality and Supply, Flood Control, River and Coastal Protection Bond Act of 2006.
(Died in Assembly Housing and Community Development Committee)

AB 1031 (Levine-D) Developmental services
Creates the Lanterman Accessible and Affordable Housing Program within the Department of Developmental Services, an accessible and affordable housing program for the development of community-based housing for persons with developmental disabilities.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 1037 (Feuer-D) Transit-oriented developments: zoning variances
Authorizes cities and counties that have one or more transit-oriented developments to adopt an ordinance or resolution granting certain enhancements for those developments. Authorizes a development project that includes affordable housing to transfer all or any portion of the maximum floor area ratio from that housing development to a transit-oriented development.
(Died in Assembly Housing and Community Development Committee)

AB 1065 (Lieber-D) Public resources: building standards: greenhouse gas
Requires the California Energy Commission to adopt standards that will reduce the energy consumption per gross square foot of floor space of new residential and new nonresidential buildings, from offsite sources, by no less than 20% of the standards adopted in 2003, no later than 2015. Requires the Commission to have a goal of zero net energy for new residential buildings by 2020, and zero net energy for new nonresidential buildings by 2030.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)

AB 1096 (DeVore-R) California Environmental Quality Act: housing
Requires the Office of Planning and Research, by 1/1/09, to report to the Legislature on development of affordable housing projects affecting the use of California Environmental Quality Act exemptions.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 1129 (Arambula-D) Local Housing Trust Fund Matching Grant Program
Requires newly established trusts to provide adequate documentation, as determined by the Department of Housing and Community Development, that an ordinance imposing or dedicating a tax or fee has been enacted or that the applicant has adopted a legally binding commitment that the matching funds will be deposited upon the approval of the application. Lowers the minimum matching grant for newly established housing trust funds in counties with a population of less than 425,000 persons from $1 million to $500,000, and specifies that the decennial United States Census for the year 2000 be used to determine whether or not a county has less than 425,000.
Vetoed

AB 1221 (Ma-D) Transit village developments: infrastructure financing
Allows local officials to divert property tax increment revenues to pay for public facilities and amenities within transit village development districts. Increases the area that a transit village plan covers to all parcels within one half mile, rather than one-quarter mile, of the exterior boundary of the parcel on which the transit station is located.
Vetoed

AB 1231 (Garcia-R) Infill development: incentive grants
Requires the Department of Housing and Community Development to use funds allocated from the Regional Planning, Housing, and Infill Incentive Account to make infrastructure grants for construction or acquisition of capital assets to qualifying cities and counties. Requires grants to be used for facilitating the development of identified infill housing projects.
(Died in Assembly Housing and Community Development Committee)

AB 1252* (Caballero-D) Transportation and housing infrastructure
Appropriates, from the Housing and Emergency Shelter Trust Fund Act of 2006 (Proposition 1C), $100 million to the Department of Housing and Community Development for the Regional Planning, Housing, and Infill Incentive Account, and $50 million for the Transit-Oriented Development Account to facilitate the construction of additional projects under the programs notices of funding availability. Appropriates, from the Highway Safety, Traffic Reduction, Air Quality, and Port Security Bond Act of 2006 (Proposition 1B), $87 million to the Department of Transportation for the Local Streets and Roads Program, and $63 million for the Grade-Separation Program to accelerate funding for these programs in the current fiscal year.
Chapter 39, Statutes of 2008

AB 1254 (Caballero-D) Affordable housing: property tax revenue
Reallocates property taxes from school districts to cities or counties to compensate them for property tax losses resulting from new tax-exempt affordable housing.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 1256 (Caballero-D) Density bonus: exemption: local inclusionary ordinance
Exempts cities and counties from complying with the current density bonus requirement, and the incentive and concession requirement, if the local government has in effect a local inclusionary housing ordinance, as specified.
(Died in Assembly Local Government Committee)

AB 1315 (Ruskin-D) Bond funds: Housing & Emergency Shelter Trust Fund Act
Provides that, in implementing the Housing and Emergency Shelter Trust Fund Act of 2006 provisions, priority shall be given to park projects around transportation hubs and train stations, projects connecting infill development and schools, projects mitigating traffic in school routes, and projects connecting urban areas with open-space parks and trails.
(Died in Assembly Water, Parks and Wildlife Committee)

AB 1366 (Portantino-D) CalHome Program
Makes housing element compliance and submission of the housing element progress report a threshold requirement for various housing and infrastructure programs administered by the Department of Housing and Community Development.
Vetoed

AB 1418 (Arambula-D) Community development: banks and credit unions
Requires the Commissioner of the Department of Financial Institutions to develop a Credit Union Membership Investment Model, as specified, and provide annual reports on the progress in implementing the model. Requires the Secretary of the Business, Transportation and Housing Agency to prepare a list of significant commitments made by federally and state-chartered banks related to community investment.
Vetoed

AB 1422 (Davis-D) Housing: down payment assistance
Allows recipients of Building Equity and Growth in Neighborhood Fund grants to request a waiver of the $30,000 loan limit.
(Died in Assembly Housing and Community Development Committee)

AB 1449 (Saldana-D) Density bonus
Revises the eligibility requirements for construction of moderate-income housing units to conform to the requirements in existing law for low- and very low-income housing units and makes changes in related provisions of existing law.
(Died in Assembly Local Government Committee)

AB 1493 (Saldana-D) Affordable Housing Innovation Fund: housing trust fund
Allocates funds from the Affordable Housing Innovation Fund to make matching grants under the Local Housing Trust Fund Matching Grant Program to cities and counties and nonprofit organizations that have local housing trusts created after 1/1/03, as specified.
(Died in Assembly Housing and Community Development Committee)

AB 1496 (Leno-D) Redevelopment: Treasure Island Development Authority
Provides that the Treasure Island Development Authority does not have to form a project area committee if it complies with four alternative requirements, as specified.
Chapter 318, Statutes of 2008

AB 1497 (Niello-R) Local government: housing elements
Requires each regional council of governments or delegate subregion, as applicable, to analyze the inventory of land suitable for residential development and identify the number of housing sites that are contingent upon the rezoning of agricultural lands currently subject to a Williamson Act contract, as specified, and make reductions to the housing allocations based upon the number of sites subject to a Williamson Act contract.
(Died in Assembly Local Government Committee)

AB 1510 (Plescia-R) Subdivision Map Act: exemptions
Exempts from the Subdivision Map Act leases and easements in conjunction with the financing, erection, and sale or lease of a solar electrical generation device on land. Exempts a biogas project that utilizes, as part of its operation, agricultural waste or byproducts from the land where the project is located and reduces overall emissions of greenhouse gases from agricultural operations on the land.
Chapter 658, Statutes of 2008

AB 1536 (Smyth-R) Housing and emergency shelter
Designates the Department of Parks and Recreation as the primary agency authorized to administer the housing-related park grants approved in Proposition 1C.
(Died in Assembly Water, Parks and Wildlife Committee)

AB 1538 (Lieu-D) Housing Trust Fund: home loan refinance assistance
Establishes a home loan refinance assistance program, to be administered by the California Housing Finance Agency, to assist first-time homeowners in refinancing variable interest loans into fixed-rate loans.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 1553 (DeSaulnier-D) Housing: firefighters, public safety officers, and emergency
Requires the Office of Emergency Services to produce an emergency personnel housing report studying the need for communities to develop a program that assists firefighters, public safety officers and emergency first responders in finding affordable housing in the communities in which they work.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 1602 (Nunez-D) Sustainable Communities and Urban Greening Program
Establishes the Sustainable Communities and Urban Greening Grant Program in the Resources Agency, and provides for expenditure of Proposition 84 urban greening funds for this program, upon appropriation by the Legislature.
(Died in Senate Environmental Quality Committee)

AB 1818 (Fuentes-D) Housing: veterans
Allows sponsors of permanent supportive housing projects funded under the Multifamily Housing Program to restrict occupancy to veterans who have barriers to social reintegration.
(Died on Senate Inactive File)

AB 1831 (Mendoza-D) Affordable housing: teachers and faculty members
Requires the Department of Housing and Community Development to submit a report, prepared in collaboration with the California Department of Education, to the Legislature and Governor by 11/15/09, on local programs designed to help teachers and faculty in securing housing. Local programs that provide low interest loans for home purchases, as well as programs that provide affordable housing opportunities, would be examined in the report.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)

AB 1910 (Coto-D) Community development investments: insurance
Requires insurance companies to develop a policy on community development investments that expresses the insurers goals for these investments, and to file that policy with the Insurance Commissioner.
Vetoed

AB 1991 (Mullin-D) Subdivisions: tentative maps
Declares specified approved maps in the City of Half Moon Bay to be in full force and effect as of 1/1/09, notwithstanding any lapse of time, changed conditions, or other factors, and to be final and nonappealable.
(Died in Senate Rules Committee)

AB 2000 (Mendoza-D) Housing general plan
Permits a local government that exceeds its regional housing need allocation share during a planning period to count the excess units towards meeting its share in the subsequent planning period.
Vetoed

AB 2069 (Jones-D) Residential development: local planning
Amends the no-net-loss zoning law to clarify that upzoning or findings are required if fewer units are approved for a particular site than were counted for the site in the housing element.
Chapter 491, Statutes of 2008

AB 2097 (Coto-D) Low and Moderate Income Housing Fund: supportive services
Allows a redevelopment agency within Santa Clara County, until 2014, to use its low- and moderate-income housing funds to pay for supportive services.
Vetoed

AB 2188 (Arambula-D) Community Development Block Grant Program: funds
Deletes the sunset on provisions allowing the Department of Housing and Community Development to annually establish the maximum grant amounts under the General Program and Economic Development Allocations of the Community Development Block Grant program and to determine the amount of funding that will be set aside for technical assistance and planning grants.
Chapter 95, Statutes of 2008

AB 2239 (Caballero-D) Fort Ord Reuse Plan
Requires all parcels within the area of Fort Ord not designated as open space in the Fort Ord Reuse Plan to be considered to have been previously developed for urban use.
(Died in Assembly Housing and Community Development Committee)

AB 2322 (Portantino-D) Foster youth placement: land use planning
Allows a city to reduce its regional housing needs allocation by 10% if it adopts a program to actively promote and assist in the placement of foster youth in existing family-based households.
(Failed passage in Assembly Housing and Community Development Committee)

AB 2331 (DeSaulnier-D) Home finance
Revises the definition of "persons and families of low or moderate income," to mean persons and families whose income does not exceed 150% of area median income, as specified.
(Died in Assembly Housing and Community Development Committee)

AB 2460 (Davis-D) Redevelopment agencies: affordable housing
Authorizes any redevelopment agency in Los Angeles County to make assistance available from its low- and moderate-income housing fund directly to a home buyer and separately defines affordable housing cost for these purposes.
(Died in Assembly Rules Committee)

AB 2494 (Caballero-D) Housing-Related Parks Program
Establishes the Housing-Related Parks Program under the administration of the Department of Housing and Community Development to implement a portion of Proposition IC (Housing and Emergency Trust Fund Act of 2006) funding.
Chapter 641, Statutes of 2008

AB 2513 (Caballero-D) Housing and Emergency Shelter Trust Fund of 2006
Requires the Department of Housing and Community Development, when awarding grants or loans from the Housing and Emergency Shelter Trust Fund of 2006, to give additional consideration to projects within jurisdictions that met at least 75% of their share of the regional housing need in the previous planning period, as demonstrated by housing units permitted.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 2520 (Walters-R) Land use: subdivision maps
Extends by 24 months the expiration date of any tentative map or parcel map for which a tentative map had been approved that had not expired as of the effective date of the bill.
(Died in Assembly Local Government Committee)

AB 2594 (Mullin-D) Redevelopment: affordable housing
Allows a redevelopment agency until 2013 to use its non-housing tax increment revenues to address the mortgage crisis.
Vetoed

AB 2818 (Jones-D) Housing
Defines disposition as a housing authority's transfer or conveyance of a public housing unit for which the authority must submit a disposition application to the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), exempts any disposition for which the housing authority has submitted a disposition application to HUD prior to 1/1/09, and prohibits a housing authority from disposing of public housing units unless the authority has fulfilled specified requirements.
Vetoed

AB 2939 (Hancock-D) Building standards: green buildings: local variances
Provides that nothing in the State Building Standards Law limits the authority of a local government to impose more restrictive building standards than the California Green Building Standards, and requires a local government, prior to imposing such standards, to make a finding that the standards are reasonably necessary to mitigate or address environmental conditions and will not unreasonably affect housing affordability.
Vetoed

AB 3005 (Jones-D) Community development: mitigation fees
Requires cities and counties to set lower traffic impact mitigation fees for specified transit-oriented housing developments unless the city or county makes a specified finding.
Chapter 692, Statutes of 2008

AJR 21 (Portantino-D) Public housing agencies
Urges public housing agencies in the state that provide housing choice vouchers under Section 8 of the United States (U.S.) Housing Act of 1937, to include shared housing as a option for all voucher recipients especially foster youth and the elderly in the next plan the agency submits to the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development.
Resolution Chapter 126, Statutes of 2008

AJR 63 (Sharon Runner-R) Veterans' mortgage bonds
Urges the President and the Congress of the United States to enact legislation that would revise provisions of the Internal Revenue Code to authorize increased issuance of qualified veterans' mortgage bonds by specified states to fund home purchase and home improvement loans to veterans other than the pre-1977 veterans.
(Died on Assembly Inactive File)

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SB 900 (Corbett-D) Mobilehome parks: conversion
Adds requirements to the Subdivision Map Act for a conversion of a mobilehome park by a subdivider to resident ownership to avoid the economic displacement of non-purchasing residents.
(Died in Assembly Housing and Community Development Committee)

SB 1057 (Migden-D) Mobilehome parks
Declares the Legislatures policy that as a matter of law, a mobilehome owner's equity may include placement value. Provides, as a matter of law, that local rent and price regulations on mobilehome parks serve to protect fixed-income residents, particularly senior citizens, by providing affordable housing to mobilehome park tenants in place.
(Died in Senate Rules Committee)

SB 1107 (Correa-D) Mobilehome parks: disabled accommodations and caregivers
Requires mobilehome park management to allow a homeowner or resident to install accommodations for the disabled on their home or the site, lot, or space on which their home is located, as specified. Allows a mobilehome owner to share their home with a live-in caregiver who provides care pursuant to a written treatment plan without being charged a fee for that person.
Chapter 170, Statutes of 2008

SB 1122 (Correa-D) Mobilehome parks
Authorizes the Department of Housing and Community Development, upon request of a local agency, to establish an enhanced level of enforcement to resolve code violations in mobilehome parks that constitute an immediate risk to life, health, and safety.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

SB 1226 (Alquist-D) CalHome Program: mobilehome parks
Authorizes CalHome Program funds to be provided as loans or grants to local agencies and mobilehome park owners, as joint applicants, for infrastructure improvements and repairs in mobilehome parks.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)

SB 1234 (Correa-D) Mobilehomes: privacy
Prevents a park ownership or management from entering an enclosed accessory structure without the prior written consent of the resident, as specified.
Chapter 115, Statutes of 2008

SB 1433 (Wyland-R) Land use planning: housing element: mobilehome parks
Prohibits a city, county, or city and county from meeting any of its existing share of the regional housing need for very low income, lower income, or moderate income households, as defined, by including mobilehome parks that are restricted in any form by an adopted ordinance, rule, regulation, or initiative measure that establishes a maximum amount that may be charged to a tenant for rent, unless the owner of the mobilehome park and the city, county, or city and county have entered into an agreement that authorizes the use of the mobilehome park for the purposes of meeting regional housing need.
(Died in Senate Transportation and Housing Committee)

SB 1452 (Correa-D) Manufactured housing: factory-built housing: violations
Allows the Department of Housing and Community Development to refuse to issue a manufactured housing occupational license due to a civil judgment, as specified, against the applicant and allows the department to assess civil penalties between $250 and $2,000 for specified violations.
Chapter 750, Statutes of 2008

AB 285 (Garcia-R) Mobilehomes: rent control
Changes the exemptions allowable for local rent control ordinances in mobilehome parks for mobilehomes which are vacation homes.
(Failed passage in Assembly Housing and Community Development Committee)

AB 460 (Cook-R) Mobilehome parks: removal of mobilehomes
Requires mobilehomes manufactured prior to 6/15/76 to meet certain requirements if the home is to remain in the park in the event of a sale to a third party.
(Died in Assembly Housing and Community Development Committee)

AB 1069 (Cook-R) Abandoned property: vehicles and mobilehomes
Adds mobilehomes to the abandoned vehicle abatement program.
(Died in Senate Transportation and Housing Committee)

AB 1111 (DeSaulnier-D) Mobilehome parks: rules and regulations
Allows a local public agency to prohibit mobilehome park management from amending or striking the provision in an existing park rule or regulation that limits residency or tenancy to individuals 55 years of age and older.
(Died on Senate Inactive File)

AB 1309 (Charles Calderon-D) Mobilehomes: rent control
Establishes vacancy decontrol for mobilehomes sold in mobilehome parks in jurisdictions with local rent control ordinances.
(Died on Assembly Inactive File)

AB 2050 (Garcia-R) Mobilehomes and manufactured homes
Requires, at the time of sale, all mobilehomes and manufactured homes to have a smoke alarm installed in each room designed for sleeping and to have all fuel-gas-burning water heaters seismically braced, anchored, or strapped.
Chapter 737, Statutes of 2008

AB 2554 (Mullin-D) Mobilehome parks: enforcement
Provides that the Department of Housing and Community Development shall reassume responsibility for enforcing the Employee Housing Act, the Mobilehome Parks Act, and the Special Occupancy Parks Act within 90 days of receiving notice that a city or county is canceling its local enforcement, and clarifies which already-collected fees a local government must remit to the Department of Housing and Community Development.
Chapter 138, Statutes of 2008

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Miscellaneous

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SB 111* (Ashburn-R) Property tax: seismic retrofitting: tax assessments
Clarifies the property tax new construction exclusion relative to seismic retrofit to ensure equal treatment for property owners who incorporate seismic safety improvements when they remodel an existing building regardless of the type of building.
Chapter 336, Statutes of 2008

SB 122 (Steinberg-D) Homelessness: hate crimes
Includes "homeless status" as one of the protected classes within the definition of hate crime.
(Died in Senate Public Safety Committee)

SB 127 (Kuehl-D) Property transfers: disclosures
Requires delivery of transfer disclosure statements relating to the sale of real property, manufactured homes and mobilehomes before transfer of title as soon as practical, but no later than 10 calendar days after the execution of the purchase agreement.
Vetoed

SB 133 (Aanestad-R) Title insurance: title solicitors
Requires persons who market, negotiate, or sell title insurance to register with the Insurance Commissioner and become subject to enforcement actions.
Chapter 280, Statutes of 2008

SB 237 (Dutton-R) Contractors: mechanics' liens
Requires a contractor who records a lien claim, as specified, and who fails to perform specified acts within 90 days of recording the claim, to execute and record a release of the lien within 15 days of the date the lien became null and void.
(Died in Senate Judiciary Committee)

SB 355 (Margett-R) Contractors: consultants
Includes within the definition of "contractor" a person who schedules subcontractors or who provides a service to complete a project for a work of improvement that is covered by a licensed contractor classification.
(Died in Assembly Business and Professions Committee)

SB 371 (Yee-D) Nonresidential tenancy: deposit money
Permits a nonresidential landlord to use a deposit to compensate the landlord for damages resulting from the termination of the lease.
(Died in Senate Judiciary Committee)

SB 464 (Kuehl-D) Rental property: public entity restrictions
Limits the ability of a rental property owner to exercise its Ellis Act rights (allowing a property owner to get out of the rental business and in the process evict all tenants from the rental property, notwithstanding any local rent control laws) to cases where the owner has owned the property for at least three years and who acquired ownership of the property on or after 3/27/07. Extends, from 120 days to one year, the time period given to a tenant to vacate a rental property being "Ellised" (i.e., taken out of the rental business) when the property owner's date of withdrawal from the rental market has already been extended to one year by reason of a qualified elderly or disabled tenant exercising his/her right to the extended date of withdrawal.
(Died on Senate Inactive File)

SB 482 (Yee-D) Residential tenancies: security deposits
Revises the definition of a security to additionally specify that it is imposed by a landlord. Authorizes a tenant to purchase a bond or commercial insurance policy to secure the performance of the terms and conditions of a rental agreement, in lieu of posting a security deposit with the landlord, and provides that a tenant who purchases a bond or commercial insurance policy would be afforded all the notice and other rights provided pursuant to these provisions for security deposits, and, for purposes of these provisions, that bond or commercial insurance policy, excluding any premium paid for the bond or commercial insurance policy, would be treated as a security.
(Died in Senate Judiciary Committee)

SB 592 (Cogdill-R) Real property: methamphetamine cleanup
Amends the Methamphetamine Contaminated Property Cleanup Act of 2005 by authorizing the Department of Toxic Substances Control to establish and administer a grant program to reimburse property owners for costs associated with remediation and other specified actions, as required under the Act, when the property owner is unable to obtain reimbursement from a liable party or is unable to identify a potentially responsible party for the contamination.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)

SB 670 (Correa-D) Real property: transfer fees
Regulates the use of private transfer fees imposed on or after 1/1/08.
(Died in Senate Transportation and Housing Committee)

SB 702 (Torlakson-D) Attached residential condominiums: sales contracts
Increases the presumptively valid amount of liquidated damages for default by certain buyers for specified condominium presale agreements.
(Died on Assembly Inactive File)

SB 794* (Maldonado-R) Environmental buildings: tax credit
Allows an income tax credit equal to 5% of the cost of environmental building expenses paid or incurred to construct, repair, maintain, rehabilitate, or improve a commercial or residential structure.
(Died in Senate Revenue and Taxation Committee)

SB 1185* (Lowenthal-D) Land use: subdivision maps
Extends the expiration date by 12 months for specified subdivision maps that will expire before 1/1/11, and for any legislative, administrative or other approval by a state agency relating to a development project in the subdivision, and increases the time for local discretionary extensions for tentative subdivision maps from five years to six years.
Chapter 124, Statutes of 2008

SB 1231 (Correa-D) Housing: fire safety
Requires the State Fire Marshal to (1) develop a model defensible space program, as specified, (2) develop a Wildland-Urban Interface Fire Safety Building Standards Compliance training manual and a Wildland-Urban Interface Products handbook, as specified, and (3) establish a fee cover the costs associated with the development of the handbook to be paid by the product manufacturers, local building officials, or other beneficiaries of the handbook.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)

SB 1237 (Cox-R) Subdivision Map Act
Requires cities and counties to approve or disapprove lot line adjustments within 60 days after receipt of a complete application for a lot line adjustment. Declares that the exterior boundary of the land shown on a final map or parcel map shall not include a designated remainder parcel or omitted parcel, and requires that the designated remainder or omitted parcels be labeled. Requires that, when a subdivider is required to make a dedication of land for public purposes, the local agency specify whether the dedication is to be in fee or an easement. Requires the subdivider to include specified language in the dedication clause on a map indicating whether the dedication is in fee or an easement and describing the dedicated property.
Vetoed

SB 1258 (Lowenthal-D) Building standards: graywater
Requires the Department of Housing and Community Development, at the next triennial building standards rulemaking cycle that commences on or after 1/1/09, to adopt and submit to the California Building Standards Commission, for approval, building standards for the construction, installation, and alteration of graywater systems for indoor and outdoor use.
Chapter 172, Statutes of 2008

SB 1284* (Lowenthal-D) Property tax: welfare exemptions
Allows the partial welfare exemption for low-income housing to apply to property previously purchased and owned by the Department of Transportation pursuant to a consent decree requiring housing mitigation measures due to freeway construction. To be eligible, the property must be owned by an organization exempt under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code.
Chapter 524, Statutes of 2008

SB 1286 (Machado-D) Escrow Agents' Fidelity Corporation
Requires that any private insurance policy maintained by an escrow agent be applied as primary coverage, in the event of a loss covered by both the private insurance and the Escrow Agents Fidelity Corporation.
(Failed passage in Assembly Banking and Finance Committee)

SB 1299 (Migden-D) Residential real property: affordable rental housing
Requires the Legislative Analyst Office to study the loss of affordable housing units resulting from the construction of condominiums on properties where resident units were subject to price control and demolished.
(Died in Assembly Housing and Community Development Committee)

SB 1386 (Lowenthal-D) Residential building safety
Requires that a carbon monoxide alarm be installed in every dwelling intended for human occupancy that has a fossil fuel burning appliance, fireplace, or attached garage.
Vetoed

SB 1448 (Scott-D) Real estate brokers and salespersons: fines
Increases the maximum fine for an unlicensed person acting or advertising themselves as a real estate broker or a real estate salesperson from $10,000 to $20,000 and for an unlicensed corporation from $50,000 to $60,000. Requires any fine collected in excess of $10,000 from an individual or in excess of $50,000 from a corporation be deposited into the Real Estate Fraud Prosecution Trust fund if one exists in the county where the conviction occurs.
Chapter 156, Statutes of 2008

SB 1470 (Lowenthal-D) Homeless Youth Prevention and Assistance Act of 2008
Requires the Department of Mental Health and the Department of Housing and Community Development to produce and distribute a statewide prevention and assistance plan for homeless youth.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)

SB 1483 (Ridley-Thomas-D) Neighborhood councils: open meetings
Provides that any meeting of an organization that is certified as a neighborhood council in the City of Los Angeles is exempt from the Brown Act. Requires instead that the meeting be open to the public, that any member of the public be able to address the council during the meeting on any item within the subject matter jurisdiction of the council, that notice of the meeting with specified information be posted at an appropriate place accessible to the public at least 72 hours before the meeting, and that the council shall not take action on any item of business unless it appears on the posted agenda, with specified exceptions.
(Died in Senate Local Government Committee)

SB 1491 (McClintock-R) Electric utilities: remotely controlled devices
Prohibits any electric utility from operating a remote controlled device without prior consent of the subscriber and allows the subscriber to revoke any prior consent given to the electric utility.
Vetoed

SB 1508 (Corbett-D) Seismic safety standards: strengthening standards
Requires the Department of Housing and Community Development to prepare guidelines and standards for the seismic strengthening of sill plates and cripple walls for light wood frame residential buildings.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

SB 1541 (Harman-R) Property tax: change in ownership: administration
Requires, upon written notification by the county assessor of potential eligibility for exclusion, a person eligible for the exclusion file a claim for exclusion within the time specified in the notice. Provides that if the person fails to timely file the claim and subsequently qualifies for exclusion, the person would be subject to a one time processing fee.
(Died in Senate Revenue and Taxation Committee)

SB 1598 (Padilla-D) Tenancies: prohibition of smoking of tobacco products
Codifies the rights of landlords regarding when they can impose no-smoking policies in residential rental units, adding new proposed statutory limitations that protect existing smokers and generally exempts rent control units.
(Died in Assembly Judiciary Committee)

SB 1604 (Machado-D) Escrow Agents' Fidelity Corporation
Requires that any private insurance policy maintained by an escrow agent be applied as primary coverage, in the event of a loss covered by both the private insurance and the Escrow Agents Fidelity Corporation.
Chapter 285, Statutes of 2008

SB 1771 (Romero-D) Redevelopment indebtedness
Allows the City of Industry and its Industry Urban-Development Agency to amend their redevelopment plans to extend the time limits on the plans' effectiveness by 10 years, and allows Industry officials to amend their redevelopment plans to extend the time limits on the payment of indebtedness and the receipt of property tax increment revenues by 10 years.
(Died in Senate Local Government Committee)

SCA 1 (McClintock-R) Eminent domain: condemnation proceedings
Proposes to the people of the State of California an amendment to the Constitution, by amending Section 19 of Article I thereof, relating to eminent domain.
(Died in Senate Judiciary Committee)

SCA 4 (Ashburn-R) Property tax: new construction exclusion
Revises the 15-year property tax exclusion for seismic safety improvements made to unreinforced masonry buildings.
Resolution Chapter 115, Statutes of 2008

AB 42 (Sharon Runner-R) Subsidized housing: grand theft
Makes the defrauding of a government-subsidized housing program felony grand theft, punishable by 16 months, two, or three years in the state prison regardless of the amount of the loss.
(Died in Assembly Public Safety Committee)

AB 155* (Nakanishi-R) Income and corporation taxes: credit: energy efficient homes
Provides a credit to a qualified taxpayer for the taxable year in which a qualified energy efficient home is certified. Defines "qualified energy efficient home" as a dwelling unit located in California that is certified as required for the credit claimed. Awards a credit of $2,000, provided that the qualified energy efficient home is certified and all of the following conditions are met: (1) the dwelling unit has a level of annual heating and cooling energy consumption that is at least 50% below the annual level of heating and cooling energy consumption of a comparable home, and has building envelope component improvements that account for at least one-fifth of that percent, (2) the dwelling unit is constructed in accordance with standards set forth in the International Energy Conservation Code in effect on 1/1/08, (3) the dwelling unit contains heating and cooling equipment efficiencies that correspond to the minimum allowed by the United States Department of Energy when construction is completed, (4) the dwelling unit conforms to federal regulations if the dwelling unit is a manufactured home, and (5) the qualified taxpayer submits to the Franchise Tax Board a certificate issued by the Secretary of the Department of Energy on or after 1/1/08, according to federal tax laws.
(Died in Assembly Revenue and Taxation Committee)

AB 242 (Blakeslee-R) Land use: annexation: housing
Requires that a city and county submit their agreed upon regional housing needs assessment transfer or their request for a revised regional housing needs assessment determination within 90 days of the date of an incorporation or annexation, unless a waiver is granted. Requires a city or county that receives a regional housing needs assessment transfer to update their housing element and identify sites to accommodate the new transfers as specified.
Chapter 11, Statutes of 2008

AB 274* (Coto-D) Brownfield cleanup: tax credit
Allows certain taxpayers to claim a credit against the net tax equal to the costs paid or incurred during the taxable year to clean up a polluted brownfield property located in California to a satisfactory level. Identifies a taxpayer entitled to the credit as a qualified "brownfield" property owner that operates a small business. Requires the cleanup to be evidenced by a written certification of completion, which is defined as an evaluation by the Department of Toxic Substances Control of the effectiveness of a removal or remedial action conducted by a responsible party to reduce or eliminate actual or potential public health and environmental threats posed by a hazardous substance release site if the action itself is not overseen by the Department of Toxic Substances Control, and permits unlimited carryover of any unused credit.
(Died in Assembly Revenue and Taxation Committee)

AB 293* (Strickland-R) Renters' and homeowners' tax exemption
Increases the annual property tax homeowners' exemption, from $7,000 to $22,000, effective as of the lien date for fiscal year 2008-09. Provides for an annual adjustment to the homeowners' exemption commencing with the lien date for fiscal year 2009-10. Calculates the annual adjustment based upon the percentage change in the California Housing Price Index for the first three quarters of the prior calendar year. Increases the renters' credit for taxable year 2008 according to the filing status of the individual.
(Died in Assembly Revenue and Taxation Committee)

AB 388* (Gaines-R) Homeowners and renters: tax exemption
Increases the annual homeowners' tax exemption to $25,000 and increases the renters' credit available to certain individuals to $430 per year.
(Died in Assembly Revenue and Taxation Committee)

AB 393* (Coto-D) Mortgage insurance
Conforms California personal income tax law to recent federal changes that permit homeowners to take a one-time itemized deduction for mortgage insurance premiums paid or accrued in 2007.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 405 (Duvall-R) Redevelopment: tax increment revenues
Requires tax increment revenues to be directed to the county upon expiration of a redevelopment agency if the county is a low-wealth county.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 456 (Cook-R) Construction Management Education Account
Continuously appropriates the funds in the Construction Management Education Account in the Contractors' License Fund.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)

AB 495* (Tran-R) Homeowners and renters: taxation: seniors
Increases the annual homeowners' tax exemption to $25,000 for persons aged 62 or older.
(Died in Assembly Revenue and Taxation Committee)

AB 530 (Salas-D) Military housing: taxation
Allows private contractors for military housing to expend property tax revenue for housing construction and renovation under possessory interest tax law.
(Failed passage in Senate Revenue and Taxation Committee)

AB 725 (Lieber-D) Housing: uniform rental housing application
Requires the Department of Housing and Community Development convene the first meeting of a working group consisting of specified governmental agencies and private associations, as specified, to draft a uniform subsidized affordable housing application, and requires the department take other specified actions upon the development of a uniform application.
Vetoed

AB 793* (Strickland-R) Affordable housing: property tax
Requires county assessors to exclude the fiscal impact of affordable housing agreements from the assessed value of real property.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)

AB 822 (Levine-D) Solid waste: multifamily dwellings
Requires, on and after 7/1/09, an owner of a multifamily dwelling to provide recycling services that are (1) appropriate for the multifamily dwelling, and (2) consistent with relevant state and local laws, including ordinances and agreements.
(Died on Senate Inactive File)

AB 968* (Walters-R) Taxation: homeowners' property exemption: renters' credit
Changes, in the case of a first-time homebuyer, the amount of the property tax exemption allowed, and adjusts the renters' tax credit for inflation for taxable years beginning on or after 1/1/08.
(Died in Assembly Revenue and Taxation Committee)
A similar bill was AB 972 (Walters-R) which died in Assembly Revenue and Taxation Committee.

AB 1173 (Keene-R) Multiunit residential structures: water charges
Establishes a process by which apartment landlords charge apartment tenants for the water consumed in each apartment.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 1197 (Aghazarian-R) Housing: sex offenders
States that denial or termination of tenancy in rental housing of a person who has been convicted of the commission or attempted commission of specified offenses listed in Penal Code Section 290.46(b)(2) is presumed to protect a person at risk.
(Died in Assembly Public Safety Committee)

AB 1213 (Price-D) Housing elements: local government
Requires the housing element of a local government's general plan, at the next update, to include floating homes in the identification of adequate sites for housing.
(Died in Assembly Local Government Committee)

AB 1234 (Wolk-D) Real property: floor furnaces
Establishes that a dwelling unit containing a floor furnace after 1/1/14 shall be deemed untenantable. Requires the Public Utilities Commission to establish a new program, to run from 7/1/08 to 12/31/13, to replace gas floor furnaces in residential dwelling units occupied by customers who are eligible for the electrical corporations' and gas corporations' low-income energy efficiency programs. Specifies that, whenever feasible, the floor furnaces are to be replaced with a heating appliance other than a floor furnace.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 1239* (Garrick-R) Property taxation: fire safety devices
Exempts newly constructed home fire safety devices from being included in property valuation for the purposes of taxation.
(Died in Senate Revenue and Taxation Committee)

AB 1333 (Hancock-D) Payment of utility charges
Provides that the legal owner of real property must pay the utilities provided to a property or its tenants following a foreclosure under specified circumstances. Allows a municipal utility district to place a lien on a property for delinquent fees or charges for the furnishing of water or sewer service to residential property, as specified.
Vetoed

AB 1356 (Houston-R) Real property: equity purchasers
Modifies what constitutes the required demonstration of financial responsibility by the representative of an "equity purchaser" (i.e. one who buys properties facing foreclosure), in providing written proof to the parties to the contract, under penalty of perjury, that the representative has either professional liability coverage equal to $1 million and an unrestricted real estate license in good standing, as specified, or a surety bond, as specified, for each contract in an amount equal to at least one-third of the medium home price for the metropolitan area in which the foreclosed property is located.
(Died in Senate Judiciary Committee)

AB 1366 (Portantino-D) CalHome Program
Makes housing element compliance and submission of the housing element progress report a threshold requirement for various housing and infrastructure programs administered by the Department of Housing and Community Development.
Vetoed

AB 1389* (Assembly Budget Committee) 2008 General Gov't Budget Trailer Bill: housing standard
Enacts the 2008 General Government Budget Trailer Bill which, among other provisions, requires the Department of Housing and Community Development to review relevant existing green building guidelines when developing proposed building standards, to consider including any cost-effective and feasible features, and to summarize efforts to this effect in annual reporting to the Legislature.
Chapter 751, Statutes of 2008

AB 1451* (Leno-D) Property tax exclusion: solar energy systems
Extends the existing exclusion through fiscal year 2015-16 and extends the existing exclusion from "new construction" for active solar energy property to initial purchasers of new specified buildings.
Chapter 538, Statutes of 2008

AB 1485* (Jeffries-R) Principal residence: veterans
Increases the property tax exemption currently provided to disabled veterans and their surviving spouses, beginning in 2008-09.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 1777* (Houston-R) Land use: subdivision maps
Extends for 24 months the expiration date of any tentative map, or parcel map for which a tentative map has been approved, that has not expired as of the date of enactment of this bill, and extends by 24 months any legislative, administrative, or other approval by any agency of the State that pertains to a development project included in a map that is extended.
(Died in Senate Local Government Committee)

AB 1853* (Anderson-R) Dwellings: tax deductions
Allows a tax deduction, for taxable years beginning on or after 1/1/09, and before 1/1/12, for qualified costs paid or incurred by a taxpayer to create a defensible space around a qualified property.
(Died in Assembly Revenue and Taxation Committee)

AB 1867 (Keene-R) Real estate appraisers
Allows public agencies to accept bids on a public contract for appraisal services from an appraiser who may be a member of any appraisal organization affiliated with the (national) Appraisal Foundation, as specified, and allows the appraiser to bring civil action for equitable relief against the public agency if they are not allowed to submit a proposal. Specifies that a public agency may award a contract for appraisal services based on appraiser qualification.
Vetoed

AB 2013 (Krekorian-D) New construction: water-permeable pavement
Requires the Department of Housing and Community Development to propose building standards that would authorize the use of water-permeable pavement for specified purposes during the next triennial adoption process of the California Building Code that begins on or after 1/1/09.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)

AB 2016 (Assembly Housing And Community Development Committee) Housing omnibus bill
Makes technical and noncontroversial changes to sections of a law dealing with housing.
Chapter 664, Statutes of 2008

AB 2019 (Fuentes-D) Assisted housing developments
Gives tenants the ability to enforce the provisions of law requiring owners of assisted housing developments to give affordable housing developers and others the right to make an offer to purchase the development in order to preserve its affordability when the owner fails to renew participation in a subsidy program.
Vetoed

AB 2020 (Fuentes-D) Residential property contracts: liquidated damages
Increases the presumptively valid amount of liquidated damages for default by certain buyers for specified condominium purchase agreements.
Chapter 665, Statutes of 2008

AB 2025 (Silva-R) Commercial real property: termination of tenancy
Increases the monetary threshold amount for determining whether a commercial landlord must dispose of a departed tenants unclaimed property via a public sale, or dispose of the property themselves, from $300 to the lesser of $750, or $1 per square foot of the premises occupied by the commercial tenant.
Chapter 161, Statutes of 2008

AB 2030 (Lieu-D) Building standards: energy
Requires the California Energy Commission to adopt design and construction standards that require new nonresidential commercial construction starting 1/1/30, to be "zero net energy" buildings.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 2052* (Lieu-D) Residential tenancies: domestic violence
Provides that a tenant who was a victim of domestic violence, sexual assault, or stalking, as defined, may terminate a rental agreement and be discharged from payment due, if specified conditions are met.
Chapter 440, Statutes of 2008

AB 2112 (Saldana-D) Building standards: energy
Requires the California Energy Commission to require that new residential construction commenced on or after 1/1/20, or on a date when the Commission determines that the use of photovoltaic technology is cost effective, whichever is later, use zero net-energy.
(Died in Senate Transportation and Housing Committee)

AB 2144 (Smyth-R) California Green Building Program
Requires the California Building Standards Commission to develop the California Green Building Program as a model program for use by local jurisdictions interested in promoting voluntary green building standards for commercial buildings that are more stringent than those adopted by the Commission.
(Failed passage in Assembly Natural Resources Committee)

AB 2204 (De La Torre-D) Real property: discriminatory restrictions
Place specified requirements on county officials when recording a deed or other instrument transferring title to residential property constructed prior to 1964.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)

AB 2219 (Parra-D) Subdivisions: water supply
Requires that the water supply assessments mandated by current law be based on the anticipated water demand for the project, given current statutory and regulatory requirements, reduced by the water savings attributable to proposed voluntary demand management measures. Defines voluntary water demand management measures as water use efficiency measures that are permanently fixed to residential, commercial, industrial, or other real property that will reduce projected water demand below the applicable statutory and regulatory requirements for water conservation.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)

AB 2256* (Duvall-R) Homeowners' exemption and renters' credit
Increases the amount of the homeowners' property tax exemption and the qualified renters' credit, and provides for automatic annual adjustments to the amount of the homeowners' exemption based on Housing Price Index in California.
(Died in Assembly Revenue and Taxation Committee)

AB 2280 (Saldana-D) Housing: density bonus
Makes a number of changes to density bonus law, as specified, to assist in resolving conflicts and differing interpretations of the law.
Chapter 454, Statutes of 2008

AB 2331 (DeSaulnier-D) Home finance
Revises the definition of "persons and families of low or moderate income," to mean persons and families whose income does not exceed 150% percent of area median income, as specified.
(Died in Assembly Housing and Community Development Committee)

AB 2335 (Nakanishi-R) Building permits
Combines three separate statutory provisions concerning forms, declarations, and notices to the property owner relating to the issuance of building permits into a single provision that combines and modifies the existing forms, declarations, and notice to the property owner. Expands the acknowledgments property owners are required to make by requiring them to explicitly acknowledge that they understand or verify specified information.
Chapter 66, Statutes of 2008

AB 2336 (Nakanishi-R) Contractors: arbitration procedures
Allows a licensee to have a project that is the subject of an arbitration proceeding inspected by an expert, and requires the complainant to allow for that inspection prior to the hearing date.
(Died in Assembly Judiciary Committee)

AB 2383 (Ruskin-D) Social security numbers
Prohibits a retail business or landlord from soliciting, requiring, or using an individual's social security number for any purpose unless that number is necessary for that business's normal course of business and there is a specific use for that number for which no other number may be used.
(Died in Assembly Judiciary Committee)

AB 2412 (Eng-D) Unlicensed contractors
Increases the maximum criminal fines for unlicensed contractors, requires a mandatory jail sentence for a third or subsequent conviction for unlicensed contracting, and clarifies that a person who utilizes an unlicensed contractor, who is convicted of acting as a contractor without a valid license, shall be considered a victim of crime, thereby requiring the court to order the unlicensed contractor to make restitution.
Vetoed

AB 2447 (Jones-D) Subdivision maps: denial of approval
Requires a county board of supervisors to deny approval of a tentative map, or a parcel map for which a tentative map was not required, if the proposed map is in a state responsibility area or a very high fire hazard severity zone, unless they make specified findings by substantial evidence. The supervisors may approve a tentative map, or a parcel map for which a tentative map was not required, under specified conditions.
Vetoed

AB 2454 (Emmerson-R) Real estate: Recovery Account
Increases the limit on the amount for which the Department of Real Estate Recovery Account may be liable and deletes obsolete provisions relating to cause of action brought prior to 1/1/80.
Chapter 279, Statutes of 2008

AB 2459 (Davis-D) Property taxation: Senior Citizen Tax Work-Off Program
Authorizes a county board of supervisors to implement a Senior Citizen Tax Work-Off Program.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 2521 (Portantino-D) Housing authorities: federal vouchers and certificates
Requires the Department of Housing and Community Development to work with the federal Department of Housing and Urban Development to authorize the state to require a public housing agency to (1) provide shared housing as an option available to recipients of specified federal housing certificates and vouchers who have special needs, and (2) adjust the agency housing assistance payment required under federal law to an amount that is sufficient to reduce the recipient's share of rent to 20% of monthly income, for a recipient who has special needs and utilizes the shared housing.
(Died in Assembly Housing and Community Development Committee)

AB 2554 (Mullin-D) Housing: local enforcement: relinquishment
Provides that the Department of Housing and Community Development shall reassume responsibility for enforcing the Employee Housing Act, the Mobilehome Parks Act, and the Special Occupancy Parks Act within 90 days of receiving notice that a city or county is canceling its local enforcement, and clarifies which already-collected fees a local government must remit to the Department of Housing and Community Development.
Chapter 138, Statutes of 2008

AB 2568* (Houston-R) Property tax exemption: principal residence
Exempts fully from property tax the personal residence of a disabled veteran and his/her spouse.
(Died in Assembly Revenue and Taxation Committee)

AB 2579 (Niello-R) Property tax: base year value transfers
Allows both spouses to make separate claims for a transfer of the base year value of a principal residence to a replacement residence. Eliminates the requirement for a property owner who has been granted a base year value transfer to notify an assessor within 30 days of completing assessable new construction on a replacement property.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)

AB 2598 (Leno-D) Residential care facilities: rent control
Authorizes local government entities to impose rent controls upon residential care facilities for the elderly.
(Died on Assembly Floor)

AB 2604 (Torrico-D) Developer fees: local agency collection
Allows a local agency to defer the collection of one or more fees until the close of escrow, as specified.
Chapter 246, Statutes of 2008

AB 2670 (Salas-D) Veterans: residential rental projects
Authorizes the Department of Veterans Affairs to apply to the California Debt Limit Allocation Committee for the issuance of private activity bonds which are to be used for qualified residential rental projects.
Chapter 332, Statutes of 2008

AB 2683 (Houston-R) Title insurance: mechanics' liens
Requires that, in every sales contract for the purchase of real property on which is located a newly constructed residential structure or structures, the builder or developer provide the purchaser with an owner's policy of title insurance that includes coverage for loss and cost of defense by reason of the assertion of mechanics' liens for works of improvement commenced prior to transfer of the property to the purchaser.
(Died in Assembly Judiciary Committee)

AB 2733 (Brownley-D) Real property disclosures
Requires expert reports used to fulfill natural hazard disclosure requirements in residential property sales to include a "Notice of Environmental Hazard Site" if the property is within a one-quarter mile radius of specified environmental hazards. Requires a similar disclosure in the application for a public report filed with the Department of Real Estate by any person offering subdivided land for sale or lease.
Vetoed

AB 2738 (Jones-D) Indemnification: construction contracts
Provides for and specifies the application of wrap-up insurance policies in the context of residential construction projects and their relationship to indemnification and defense obligations in residential construction projects.
Chapter 467, Statutes of 2008

AB 2827 (Sharon Runner-R) Property crimes
Defines housing program fraud in a separate section of the Penal Code, thereby allowing prosecutors and housing authority personnel to better track landlords who have committed housing fraud.
Chapter 105, Statutes of 2008

AB 2867 (De Leon-D) Housing: sustainable building methods
Requires the Department of Housing and Community Development, for all new housing construction and rehabilitation programs administered by the department, to prioritize funding for housing projects that utilize sustainable building methods. If the department decides that a prioritization system is not feasible, the department would be required to report the basis of its decision to the Legislature.
(Died in Assembly Housing and Community Development Committee)

AB 2868 (Davis-D) Redevelopment agencies: affordable housing
Authorizes, until 1/1/13, the community redevelopment agency in Los Angeles County to expend moneys from its Low and Moderate Income Housing Fund to assist home buyers with a gross income up to, and including, 150% of the area median income.
(Died in Senate Transportation and Housing Committee)

AB 2874 (Lieber-D) Civil rights: damages
Deletes the $150,000 limitation on actual damages that may be assessed by the California Fair Employment and Housing Commission against a respondent who violates the "hate crime" provision of the Ralph Civil Rights Act of 1976.
Vetoed

AB 2925 (Davis-D) Substandard buildings: new ownership interest: registration
Requires owners of substandard property to provide identifying information and a plan of correction to the local code enforcement agency.
(Died in Senate Transportation and Housing Committee)

AB 3060 (Assembly Labor And Employment Committee) Contractors: license enforcement
Deletes a section of obsolete code thereby clarifying the use of the monies funding the enforcement of laws prohibiting illegal practices by unlicensed contractors.
Chapter 55, Statutes of 2008

AB 3067 (Assembly Veterans Affairs Committee) Military and Veterans: Veterans' rental housing act
Authorizes the Department of Veterans Affairs to provide rental housing for veterans, as provided. Authorizes the Department of Veterans Affairs to create a Veterans' Rental Housing Debenture Finance Committee, to issue debentures to finance veterans' rental housing. Provides that revenues generated from the sale of the debentures be deposited in the Veterans' Rental Housing Debenture Fund, which shall be continuously appropriated to the Department of Veterans Affairs for purposes of the bill.
(Died in Senate Veterans Affairs Committee)

ACA 2 (Walters-R) Eminent domain
Prohibits the taking or damaging of private property, without the express written consent of the owner, for purposes of economic development, increasing tax revenue, or private use, or when the same use will be maintained following the taking. Requires that, prior to the commencement of eminent domain proceedings, the public use for which the property is to be taken be stated in writing. Provides that a property owner's acceptance of money deposited as the probable amount of just compensation does not prejudice the owner's right to challenge the amount of compensation or whether the taking is for a private use. Entitles a property owner to an award of attorney's fees from the condemner upon a court finding that the condemner's actions were not in compliance with the measure's provisions. Defines "public use" for these purposes, and permits the leasing of limited space for privately owned and operated business activity incidental to, and compatible with, the public work or improvement, subject to specified restrictions. Permits private property to be taken to eliminate a specific, recurring, and ongoing threat to public safety, if certain conditions exist on each parcel to be taken and pursuant to a certain process. Provides that if property taken by eminent domain ceases to be used for the public use stated at the time of the taking, or fails to be put to that use within 10 years following the date of the taking, the former owner and heirs shall have the right to acquire the property at fair market value at the time of the reconveyance. Provides that it applies to both new and pending projects that involve the exercise of the power of eminent domain, except if a resolution of necessity was adopted, as specified, prior to the effective date of the measure. Excludes from the application of its provisions real property that is within a duly formed redevelopment project as of 1/1/08 that has a specific connection with a military facility.
(Died in Assembly Judiciary Committee)

ACA 8 (De La Torre-D) Eminent domain
Requires the public use for which private property is taken by eminent domain to be stated in writing, prior to the commencement of eminent domain proceedings. Prohibits, generally, a state or local government from acquiring by eminent domain an owner-occupied residence, real property on which a small business (defined as having 50 or fewer full-time employees) is operated, or real property in agricultural use, for the purpose of conveying real property to a private person or private entity.
(Died on Assembly Floor)

ACR 61 (Lieber-D) Joint Committee on Homelessness in California
Establishes the Joint Committee on Homelessness in California, to study and investigate issues relating to homelessness. The Committee shall consist of five Assembly Members appointed by the Speaker of the Assembly and five Senators appointed by the Senate Committee on Rules. Prescribes the duties and powers of the Committee, and authorizes the Committee to act until 11/30/08.
(Died in Assembly being unassigned to a committee)

AJR 3 (Dymally-D) Low-income home energy assistance
Memorializes the President and the Congress to increase the federal budget authorization for the federal Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program to $7 billion for the 2007-08 fiscal year, and appropriate that entire amount for distribution to the states.
(Died in Assembly Utilities and Commerce Committee)

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Common Interest Development

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SB 948 (Harman-R) Common interest developments: board member education
Requires every member of a board of directors of an association in a common interest development to complete at least one course on decisional and statutory law relating to common interest developments during the first 12 months of his/her first term of office, and at least one course every four calendar years after first becoming a member of the board.
(Died on Senate Inactive File)

SB 1511 (Ducheny-D) Common interest developments: mortgages: successors
Allows an association, with respect to separate interests governed by the association, to record a request that a mortgagee, trustee, or other person authorized to record a notice of default regarding any of those separate interest mail to the association a copy of any trustee's deed upon sale concerning a separate interest, as specified. Requires the mortgagee or trustee to mail that information to the association within 15 business days following the date the trustee's deed is recorded. Specifies that failure to mail the request, pursuant to that provision, would not affect the title to real property.
Chapter 527, Statutes of 2008

AB 567 (Saldana-D) Common Interest Development Bureau
Establishes the Office of the Common Interest Development Bureau as a pilot project within the Department of Consumer Affairs to provide education and collect data about the most common types of disputes that occur in common interest developments.
Vetoed

AB 952 (Mullin-D) Common interest developments: assessments: residents
Requires the board of directors of a homeowner association in a common interest development to provide an owner who is delinquent in paying his/her assessments a payment plan if there is an established need for a plan.
Vetoed

AB 1892 (Smyth-R) Common interest developments: solar energy
Provides that any provision in the governing documents of a common interest development that effectively prohibits or restricts the installation or use of a solar energy system is void and unenforceable, except as specified. Does not prevent the inclusion of reasonable restrictions on the use of solar energy systems in those documents.
Chapter 40, Statutes of 2008

AB 1921 (Saldana-D) Common interest developments
Adds portions of the Corporations Code where there is significant overlap between the Corporations Code and the Davis-Stirling Common Interest Development Act. Provides that where there are inconsistencies between the Act and the Corporations Code, the Act prevails, standardizes existing technology and procedures, and makes the changes operative on 1/1/10.
(Died in Senate Transportation and Housing Committee)

AB 1955* (Plescia-R) Common interest developments: assessments
Prohibits a homeowners association in a common interest development from levying assessments on separate interests based on the taxable value of the separate interest unless the declaration allowed for this practice on or before 12/31/08.
Vetoed

AB 2259 (Mullin-D) Common interest developments
Provides that an owner of a separate interest in a common interest development is not subject to a provision in a governing document or a provision in an amendment to a governing document that prohibits the rental or leasing of their unit, unless that provision was effective prior to the date the owner acquired title.
Vetoed

AB 2806 (Karnette-D) Common interest developments: board member education
Provides that each member of the board of directors of an association in a common interest development, and each candidate for election, shall, in a timely manner, provide a statement to the board indicating whether he or she has completed an educational course on the law of common interest developments and, if applicable, when the course was completed. Provides that each member of, or candidate for, the board of directors, may also provide a description of any other relevant education or qualifications to the board, and requires each association to include those statements in the ballot materials for the board member election.
Vetoed

AB 2846 (Feuer-D) Common interest developments: assessments
Provides that if a dispute exists between the homeowner and the association regarding any disputed charge or sum, and the amount does not exceed the jurisdictional limit for small claims court, the homeowner may, in addition to pursuing dispute resolution, pay the disputed amount under protest and commence an action in small claims court.
Chapter 502, Statutes of 2008

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Mortgage/Foreclosure Reform

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SB 926* (Perata-D) Residential mortgage loans: foreclosure procedures
Enacts a comprehensive package of foreclosure reforms designed to prevent unnecessary residential foreclosures from further worsening the state and local economy and housing markets. Requires a notice to be sent to borrowers prior to any projected change in mortgage payment, and requires lenders to contact borrowers to arrange an in-person meeting and provide the borrower a list of HUD (Department of Housing and Urban Development) certified counselors before filing a Notice of Default on a residential property in default.
(Died on Senate Floor)

SB 1055* (Machado-D) Taxation: cancellation of indebtedness
Allows a solvent taxpayer to exclude from his/her gross income an amount of qualified principal residence indebtedness discharged by the lender, which is in conformity with the federal mortgage Forgiveness Debt Relief Act of 2007.
Chapter 282, Statutes of 2008

SB 1065 (Correa-D) Home financing programs
Allows cities and counties to use revenue bond funds to make or purchase refinanced home mortgages that are federally insured, federally guaranteed, or eligible to be purchased by the Federal National Mortgage Association or the Federal Home Loan and Mortgage Corporation.
Chapter 283, Statutes of 2008

SB 1137* (Perata-D) Residential mortgage loans: foreclosure procedures
Enacts several changes to the procedures that must be followed before the holder of a mortgage may issue a notice of default or notice of trustee sale, requires the holder of a mortgage to mail a specified notice to the tenant(s) of a property on which foreclosure proceedings have begun, and imposes penalties on property owners who fail to adequately maintain foreclosed properties, as specified.
Chapter 69, Statutes of 2008

SB 1240 (Machado-D) Real estate: brokers and salespersons
Requires real estate brokers that make, arrange, or service residential mortgage loans on property containing one to four residential units to notify the Department of Real Estate within 30 days of entering the mortgage field and upon exiting that field, and requires these brokers to file specified reports with the department on an annual or biannual basis, documenting their level of compliance with applicable law and regulation.
Vetoed
A similar bill was SB 1054 (Machado-D) which died in Assembly Banking and Finance Committee.

SB 1242* (Runner-R) Residential mortgages
Requires a person or entity that arranges financing in connection with a sale, lease, or exchange of real property, and acts as an agent with respect to that property, to make a written disclosure of those roles and his/her compensation, within 24 hours, to all parties to the sale, lease, or exchange and any related loan transaction.
(Died in Senate Judiciary Committee)

SB 1448 (Scott-D) Real estate brokers and salespersons: fines
Increases the maximum fine for an unlicensed person acting or advertising themselves as a real estate broker or a real estate salesperson from $10,000 to $20,000 and for an unlicensed corporation from $50,000 to $60,000. Requires any fine collected in excess of $10,000 from an individual or in excess of $50,000 from a corporation be deposited into the Real Estate Fraud Prosecution Trust fund if one exists in the county where the conviction occurs.
Chapter 156, Statutes of 2008

SB 1461 (Negrete McLeod-D) Real estate licensees
Requires real estate licensees to place their license identification number on marketing and solicitation materials and on home purchase agreements that they negotiate.
Chapter 284, Statutes of 2008

SJR 21 (Machado-D) Mortgage loans: conforming loan limit
Respectfully memorializes the President and Congress of the United States to enact legislation that increases the federal conforming loan limit, as specified.
(Died in Assembly Banking and Finance Committee)

AB 69 (Lieu-D) Mortgage lending: reporting
Requires mortgage loan servicers to report information regarding loan loss mitigation efforts to the Department of Corporations.
Chapter 277, Statutes of 2008

AB 180 (Bass-D) Mortgages: foreclosure consultants
Amends existing law relative to foreclosure consultants to (1) prohibit a foreclosure consultant from entering specified pre-foreclosure agreements with a homeowner, (2) allow a homeowner to cancel within five days of signing a contract with a foreclosure consultant, and (3) require the foreclosure consultant to maintain a surety bond, as specified.
Chapter 278, Statutes of 2008

AB 529 (Torrico-D) Mortgages: adjustable interest rates: notification
Requires borrowers to receive notice if their loan is scheduled to switch from an initial fixed rate to an adjustable rate, or set to reset to a fully amortizing loan.
Vetoed

AB 1830 (Lieu-D) Real estate: lending
Enacts the Higher-Priced Mortgage Loan Law, effective 7/1/09, as specified, codifies a fiduciary duty for mortgage brokers, effective 1/1/09, and authorizes California's mortgage regulators to apply specified federal mortgage lending laws and regulations to their licensees, effective 1/1/09.
Vetoed

AB 1833 (Anderson-R) Housing: rehabilitated, foreclosed, and distressed housing
Authorizes a redevelopment agency to expend money from the Low and Moderate Income Housing Fund to purchase homes that are in foreclosure and are owned by persons of low or moderate income residing within its jurisdiction. Requires that funds be expended pursuant to these provisions in a manner that preserves the exemption from federal and state income taxes of interest on the bonds or notes issued b y the agency under the Community Redevelopment Law.
(Died in Assembly Housing and Community Development Committee)

AB 1837 (Garcia-R) Consumer loans: subprime and nontraditional loans
Imposes certain limitations and prohibitions on licensed persons, including real estate brokers, finance lenders, residential mortgage lenders, and financial institutions, with respect to consumer loans and covered loans.
(Died in Assembly Banking and Finance Committee)

AB 2161 (Swanson-D) Loans: consumer complaints
Requires the Department of Real Estate, the Department of Financial Institutions, and the Department of Corporations to report to the Legislature on consumer complaints related to nontraditional loans.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)

AB 2187 (Caballero-D) Mortgages: foreclosure
Imposes certain requirements on mortgage lenders that are foreclosing on property.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 2323 (Huff-R) Escrow agents
Expands the Escrow Law to include federal summary criminal history information from the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
Chapter 262, Statutes of 2008

AB 2359 (Jones-D) Loans
Provides that an originator, beneficiary, trustee or assignee shall not require as a condition of an agreement regarding a covered loan, subprime loan, or non-traditional loan that the applicant waive any duties, remedies, or forums of California law with respect to a residential mortgage or mortgage foreclosure.
(Died in Senate Banking, Finance and Insurance Committee)

AB 2509 (Galgiani-D) Homeownership preservation
Establishes the Homeownership Preservation Mortgage Guarantee Program, as specified, administered by the Business, Transportation and Housing Agency, using federal funding made available through the Neighborhood Stabilization Act of 2008 (HR 5818).
(Died in Senate Banking, Finance and Insurance Committee)

AB 2586 (Torrico-D) Residential tenancies
Extends certain tenant protections to apply after a foreclosure sale. For example, existing law prohibits a landlord, with the intent to terminate the tenancy, from interrupting or terminating a tenant's utility service, changing the locks, or removing a tenant's personal property from the premises. Includes a successor in interest who acquired the property through foreclosure in the definition of "landlord" subject to these prohibitions, and provides that provisions of existing law regarding the collection and return of security deposits apply whether the termination of the landlord's interest was voluntary or involuntary and in the case of a trustee's sale.
Vetoed

AB 2594 (Mullin-D) Redevelopment: affordable housing
Allows a redevelopment agency until 2013 to use its non-housing tax increment revenues to address the mortgage crisis.
Vetoed

AB 2740 (Brownley-D) Home loans: servicing
Imposes specified duties on mortgage loan servicers and establishes additional civil liability for servicers who violate the provisions of the bill.
(Died in Senate Banking, Finance and Insurance Committee)

AB 2751 (Strickland-R) Mortgages: residential property
Requires every person or financial institution that makes loans upon the security of real property containing only a one to four family residence and that is located in this state, or purchases obligations secured by that property, that receives money for payment of settlement proceeds, as defined, to place that money in an interest bearing account.
(Died in Assembly Banking and Finance Committee)

AB 2880 (Wolk-D) Mortgage brokers
Provides for increased regulation of mortgage brokers.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AJR 45 (Coto-D) Mortgage loans: federal conforming/FHA mortgage loan limits
Memorializes the Congress of the United States to enact, and the President of the United States to sign, a permanent increase in the conforming mortgage loan limit and the Federal Housing Administration limit, to the levels to which these limits were increased in the Economic Stimulus Act of 2008.
Resolution Chapter 81, Statutes of 2008

AJR 59 (Solorio-D) California subprime mortgage foreclosures
Urges the President and the Congress of the United States to require more oversight of mortgage lenders and loan servicers and increase disclosures and enforcement of mortgage laws.
(Died in Assembly Banking and Finance Committee)

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Index (in bill order)

Bill	Author and Bill Title	Reference Links
SB 6	Oropeza-D Subdivisions: local use planning	Finance and Development
SB 46	Perata-D Housing and Emergency Shelter Trust Fund Act of 2006	Finance and Development
SB 111*	Ashburn-R Property tax: seismic retrofitting: tax assessments	Miscellaneous
SB 122	Steinberg-D Homelessness: hate crimes	Miscellaneous
SB 127	Kuehl-D Property transfers: disclosures	Miscellaneous
SB 133	Aanestad-R Title insurance: title solicitors	Miscellaneous
SB 237	Dutton-R Contractors: mechanics' liens	Miscellaneous
SB 303	Ducheny-D Local government: land use planning	Finance and Development
SB 355	Margett-R Contractors: consultants	Miscellaneous
SB 371	Yee-D Nonresidential tenancy: deposit money	Miscellaneous
SB 375	Steinberg-D Housing Element: travel demand models	Finance and Development
SB 429	Ducheny-D Land use controls	Finance and Development
SB 464	Kuehl-D Rental property: public entity restrictions	Miscellaneous
SB 465	Lowenthal-D Housing: grant and loan programs	Finance and Development
SB 482	Yee-D Residential tenancies: security deposits	Miscellaneous
SB 522	Dutton-R Infill housing: incentives	Finance and Development
SB 545	Cox-R Affordable Housing Innovation Fund	Finance and Development
SB 546	Ducheny-D Department of Housing and Community Development	Finance and Development
SB 585*	Lowenthal-D Farmworker housing assistance tax credits	Finance and Development
SB 592	Cogdill-R Real property: methamphetamine cleanup	Miscellaneous
SB 670	Correa-D Real property: transfer fees	Miscellaneous
SB 702	Torlakson-D Attached residential condominiums: sales contracts	Miscellaneous
SB 794*	Maldonado-R Environmental buildings: tax credit	Miscellaneous
SB 821	Kuehl-D Residential development: water supplies	Finance and Development
SB 870*	Ridley-Thomas-D California Housing Finance Agency: resolutions	Finance and Development
SB 900	Corbett-D Mobilehome parks: conversion	Mobilehomes
SB 926*	Perata-D Residential mortgage loans: foreclosure procedures	Mortgage/Foreclosure Reform
SB 934	Lowenthal-D Housing and infrastructure zones	Finance and Development
SB 948	Harman-R Common interest developments: board member education	Common Interest Development
SB 1055*	Machado-D Taxation: cancellation of indebtedness	Mortgage/Foreclosure Reform
SB 1057	Migden-D Mobilehome parks	Mobilehomes
SB 1065	Correa-D Home financing programs	Mortgage/Foreclosure Reform
SB 1107	Correa-D Mobilehome parks: disabled accommodations and caregivers	Mobilehomes
SB 1122	Correa-D Mobilehome parks	Mobilehomes
SB 1137*	Perata-D Residential mortgage loans: foreclosure procedures	Mortgage/Foreclosure Reform
SB 1175	Steinberg-D Developmental services: regional center housing	Finance and Development
SB 1185*	Lowenthal-D Land use: subdivision maps	Miscellaneous
SB 1220	Cedillo-D Housing: Multifamily Housing Program: veterans	Finance and Development
SB 1226	Alquist-D CalHome Program: mobilehome parks	Mobilehomes
SB 1231	Correa-D Housing: fire safety	Miscellaneous
SB 1234	Correa-D Mobilehomes: privacy	Mobilehomes
SB 1237	Cox-R Subdivision Map Act	Miscellaneous
SB 1240	Machado-D Real estate: brokers and salespersons	Mortgage/Foreclosure Reform
SB 1242*	Runner-R Residential mortgages	Mortgage/Foreclosure Reform
SB 1247	Lowenthal-D Farmworker housing assistance	Finance and Development
SB 1258	Lowenthal-D Building standards: graywater	Miscellaneous
SB 1278	Maldonado-R Building standards: green building construction	Finance and Development
SB 1284*	Lowenthal-D Property tax: welfare exemptions	Miscellaneous
SB 1286	Machado-D Escrow Agents' Fidelity Corporation	Miscellaneous
SB 1299	Migden-D Residential real property: affordable rental housing	Miscellaneous
SB 1386	Lowenthal-D Residential building safety	Miscellaneous
SB 1433	Wyland-R Land use planning: housing element: mobilehome parks	Mobilehomes
SB 1448	Scott-D Real estate brokers and salespersons: fines	Miscellaneous Mortgage/Foreclosure Reform
SB 1452	Correa-D Manufactured housing: factory-built housing: violations	Mobilehomes
SB 1461	Negrete McLeod-D Real estate licensees	Mortgage/Foreclosure Reform
SB 1470	Lowenthal-D Homeless Youth Prevention and Assistance Act of 2008	Miscellaneous
SB 1473	Calderon-D Building standards	Finance and Development
SB 1483	Ridley-Thomas-D Neighborhood councils: open meetings	Miscellaneous
SB 1491	McClintock-R Electric utilities: remotely controlled devices	Miscellaneous
SB 1508	Corbett-D Seismic safety standards: strengthening standards	Miscellaneous
SB 1511	Ducheny-D Common interest developments: mortgages: successors	Common Interest Development
SB 1541	Harman-R Property tax: change in ownership: administration	Miscellaneous
SB 1572*	Wyland-R Veterans' Bond Act of 2008	Finance and Development
SB 1598	Padilla-D Tenancies: prohibition of smoking of tobacco products	Miscellaneous
SB 1604	Machado-D Escrow Agents' Fidelity Corporation	Miscellaneous
SB 1689	Lowenthal-D Local agencies: redevelopment	Finance and Development
SB 1771	Romero-D Redevelopment indebtedness	Miscellaneous
SCA 1	McClintock-R Eminent domain: condemnation proceedings	Miscellaneous
SCA 4	Ashburn-R Property tax: new construction exclusion	Miscellaneous
SJR 21	Machado-D Mortgage loans: conforming loan limit	Mortgage/Foreclosure Reform
AB 29	Hancock-D Infill development: incentive grants	Finance and Development
AB 42	Sharon Runner-R Subsidized housing: grand theft	Miscellaneous
AB 69	Lieu-D Mortgage lending: reporting	Mortgage/Foreclosure Reform
AB 82	Evans-D Regional housing needs	Finance and Development
AB 155*	Nakanishi-R Energy efficient homes	Finance and Development Miscellaneous
AB 180	Bass-D Mortgages: foreclosure consultants	Mortgage/Foreclosure Reform
AB 242	Blakeslee-R Land use: annexation: housing	Miscellaneous
AB 274*	Coto-D Brownfield cleanup: tax credit	Miscellaneous
AB 285	Garcia-R Mobilehomes: rent control	Mobilehomes
AB 293*	Strickland-R Renters' and homeowners' tax exemption	Miscellaneous
AB 388*	Gaines-R Homeowners and renters: tax exemption	Miscellaneous
AB 393*	Coto-D Mortgage insurance	Miscellaneous
AB 405	Duvall-R Redevelopment: tax increment revenues	Miscellaneous
AB 456	Cook-R Construction Management Education Account	Miscellaneous
AB 460	Cook-R Mobilehome parks: removal of mobilehomes	Mobilehomes
AB 495*	Tran-R Homeowners and renters: taxation: seniors	Miscellaneous
AB 529	Torrico-D Mortgages: adjustable interest rates: notification	Mortgage/Foreclosure Reform
AB 530	Salas-D Military housing: taxation	Miscellaneous
AB 567	Saldana-D Common Interest Development Bureau	Common Interest Development
AB 600	Garcia-R Housing: homebuyer assistance	Finance and Development
AB 677	Nakanishi-R Firefighters' Home Purchase Act of 2007	Finance and Development
AB 725	Lieber-D Housing: uniform rental housing application	Miscellaneous
AB 762	Nava-D Farm labor housing	Finance and Development
AB 792*	Garcia-R Environmentally sustainable affordable housing	Finance and Development
AB 793*	Strickland-R Affordable housing: property tax	Miscellaneous
AB 822	Levine-D Solid waste: multifamily dwellings	Miscellaneous
AB 872	Davis-D Urban infill affordable housing	Finance and Development
AB 952	Mullin-D Common interest developments: assessments: residents	Common Interest Development
AB 968*	Walters-R Taxation: homeowners' property exemption: renters' credit	Miscellaneous
AB 971	Portantino-D Housing: Community Workforce Housing Innovation Program	Finance and Development
AB 997	Arambula-D Infill capital outlay project and planning grants and loans	Finance and Development
AB 1031	Levine-D Developmental services	Finance and Development
AB 1037	Feuer-D Transit-oriented developments: zoning variances	Finance and Development
AB 1065	Lieber-D Public resources: building standards: greenhouse gas	Finance and Development
AB 1069	Cook-R Abandoned property: vehicles and mobilehomes	Mobilehomes
AB 1096	DeVore-R California Environmental Quality Act: housing	Finance and Development
AB 1111	DeSaulnier-D Mobilehome parks: rules and regulations	Mobilehomes
AB 1129	Arambula-D Local Housing Trust Fund Matching Grant Program	Finance and Development
AB 1173	Keene-R Multiunit residential structures: water charges	Miscellaneous
AB 1197	Aghazarian-R Housing: sex offenders	Miscellaneous
AB 1213	Price-D Housing elements: local government	Miscellaneous
AB 1221	Ma-D Transit village developments: infrastructure financing	Finance and Development
AB 1231	Garcia-R Infill development: incentive grants	Finance and Development
AB 1234	Wolk-D Real property: floor furnaces	Miscellaneous
AB 1239*	Garrick-R Property taxation: fire safety devices	Miscellaneous
AB 1252*	Caballero-D Transportation and housing infrastructure	Finance and Development
AB 1254	Caballero-D Affordable housing: property tax revenue	Finance and Development
AB 1256	Caballero-D Density bonus: exemption: local inclusionary ordinance	Finance and Development
AB 1309	Charles Calderon-D Mobilehomes: rent control	Mobilehomes
AB 1315	Ruskin-D Bond funds: Housing & Emergency Shelter Trust Fund Act	Finance and Development
AB 1333	Hancock-D Payment of utility charges	Miscellaneous
AB 1356	Houston-R Real property: equity purchasers	Miscellaneous
AB 1366	Portantino-D CalHome Program	Finance and Development Miscellaneous
AB 1389*	Assembly Budget Committee 2008 General Gov't Budget Trailer Bill: housing standard	Miscellaneous
AB 1418	Arambula-D Community development: banks and credit unions	Finance and Development
AB 1422	Davis-D Housing: down payment assistance	Finance and Development
AB 1449	Saldana-D Density bonus	Finance and Development
AB 1451*	Leno-D Property tax exclusion: solar energy systems	Miscellaneous
AB 1485*	Jeffries-R Principal residence: veterans	Miscellaneous
AB 1493	Saldana-D Affordable Housing Innovation Fund: housing trust fund	Finance and Development
AB 1496	Leno-D Redevelopment: Treasure Island Development Authority	Finance and Development
AB 1497	Niello-R Local government: housing elements	Finance and Development
AB 1510	Plescia-R Subdivision Map Act: exemptions	Finance and Development
AB 1536	Smyth-R Housing and emergency shelter	Finance and Development
AB 1538	Lieu-D Housing Trust Fund: home loan refinance assistance	Finance and Development
AB 1553	DeSaulnier-D Housing: firefighters, public safety officers, and emergency	Finance and Development
AB 1602	Nunez-D Sustainable Communities and Urban Greening Program	Finance and Development
AB 1777*	Houston-R Land use: subdivision maps	Miscellaneous
AB 1818	Fuentes-D Housing: veterans	Finance and Development
AB 1830	Lieu-D Real estate: lending	Mortgage/Foreclosure Reform
AB 1831	Mendoza-D Affordable housing: teachers and faculty members	Finance and Development
AB 1833	Anderson-R Housing: rehabilitated, foreclosed, and distressed housing	Mortgage/Foreclosure Reform
AB 1837	Garcia-R Consumer loans: subprime and nontraditional loans	Mortgage/Foreclosure Reform
AB 1853*	Anderson-R Dwellings: tax deductions	Miscellaneous
AB 1867	Keene-R Real estate appraisers	Miscellaneous
AB 1892	Smyth-R Common interest developments: solar energy	Common Interest Development
AB 1910	Coto-D Community development investments: insurance	Finance and Development
AB 1921	Saldana-D Common interest developments	Common Interest Development
AB 1955*	Plescia-R Common interest developments: assessments	Common Interest Development
AB 1991	Mullin-D Subdivisions: tentative maps	Finance and Development
AB 2000	Mendoza-D Housing general plan	Finance and Development
AB 2013	Krekorian-D New construction: water-permeable pavement	Miscellaneous
AB 2016	Assembly Housing And Community Development Committee Housing omnibus bill	Miscellaneous
AB 2019	Fuentes-D Assisted housing developments	Miscellaneous
AB 2020	Fuentes-D Residential property contracts: liquidated damages	Miscellaneous
AB 2025	Silva-R Commercial real property: termination of tenancy	Miscellaneous
AB 2030	Lieu-D Building standards: energy	Miscellaneous
AB 2050	Garcia-R Mobilehomes and manufactured homes	Mobilehomes
AB 2052*	Lieu-D Residential tenancies: domestic violence	Miscellaneous
AB 2069	Jones-D Residential development: local planning	Finance and Development
AB 2097	Coto-D Low and Moderate Income Housing Fund: supportive services	Finance and Development
AB 2112	Saldana-D Building standards: energy	Miscellaneous
AB 2144	Smyth-R California Green Building Program	Miscellaneous
AB 2161	Swanson-D Loans: consumer complaints	Mortgage/Foreclosure Reform
AB 2187	Caballero-D Mortgages: foreclosure	Mortgage/Foreclosure Reform
AB 2188	Arambula-D Community Development Block Grant Program: funds	Finance and Development
AB 2204	De La Torre-D Real property: discriminatory restrictions	Miscellaneous
AB 2219	Parra-D Subdivisions: water supply	Miscellaneous
AB 2239	Caballero-D Fort Ord Reuse Plan	Finance and Development
AB 2256*	Duvall-R Homeowners' exemption and renters' credit	Miscellaneous
AB 2259	Mullin-D Common interest developments	Common Interest Development
AB 2280	Saldana-D Housing: density bonus	Miscellaneous
AB 2322	Portantino-D Foster youth placement: land use planning	Finance and Development
AB 2323	Huff-R Escrow agents	Mortgage/Foreclosure Reform
AB 2331	DeSaulnier-D Home finance	Finance and Development Miscellaneous
AB 2335	Nakanishi-R Building permits	Miscellaneous
AB 2336	Nakanishi-R Contractors: arbitration procedures	Miscellaneous
AB 2359	Jones-D Loans	Mortgage/Foreclosure Reform
AB 2383	Ruskin-D Social security numbers	Miscellaneous
AB 2412	Eng-D Unlicensed contractors	Miscellaneous
AB 2447	Jones-D Subdivision maps: denial of approval	Miscellaneous
AB 2454	Emmerson-R Real estate: Recovery Account	Miscellaneous
AB 2459	Davis-D Property taxation: Senior Citizen Tax Work-Off Program	Miscellaneous
AB 2460	Davis-D Redevelopment agencies: affordable housing	Finance and Development
AB 2494	Caballero-D Housing-Related Parks Program	Finance and Development
AB 2509	Galgiani-D Homeownership preservation	Mortgage/Foreclosure Reform
AB 2513	Caballero-D Housing and Emergency Shelter Trust Fund of 2006	Finance and Development
AB 2520	Walters-R Land use: subdivision maps	Finance and Development
AB 2521	Portantino-D Housing authorities: federal vouchers and certificates	Miscellaneous
AB 2554	Mullin-D Mobilehome parks: enforcement	Mobilehomes Miscellaneous
AB 2568*	Houston-R Property tax exemption: principal residence	Miscellaneous
AB 2579	Niello-R Property tax: base year value transfers	Miscellaneous
AB 2586	Torrico-D Residential tenancies	Mortgage/Foreclosure Reform
AB 2594	Mullin-D Redevelopment: affordable housing	Finance and Development Mortgage/Foreclosure Reform
AB 2598	Leno-D Residential care facilities: rent control	Miscellaneous
AB 2604	Torrico-D Developer fees: local agency collection	Miscellaneous
AB 2670	Salas-D Veterans: residential rental projects	Miscellaneous
AB 2683	Houston-R Title insurance: mechanics' liens	Miscellaneous
AB 2733	Brownley-D Real property disclosures	Miscellaneous
AB 2738	Jones-D Indemnification: construction contracts	Miscellaneous
AB 2740	Brownley-D Home loans: servicing	Mortgage/Foreclosure Reform
AB 2751	Strickland-R Mortgages: residential property	Mortgage/Foreclosure Reform
AB 2806	Karnette-D Common interest developments: board member education	Common Interest Development
AB 2818	Jones-D Housing	Finance and Development
AB 2827	Sharon Runner-R Property crimes	Miscellaneous
AB 2846	Feuer-D Common interest developments: assessments	Common Interest Development
AB 2867	De Leon-D Housing: sustainable building methods	Miscellaneous
AB 2868	Davis-D Redevelopment agencies: affordable housing	Miscellaneous
AB 2874	Lieber-D Civil rights: damages	Miscellaneous
AB 2880	Wolk-D Mortgage brokers	Mortgage/Foreclosure Reform
AB 2925	Davis-D Substandard buildings: new ownership interest: registration	Miscellaneous
AB 2939	Hancock-D Building standards: green buildings: local variances	Finance and Development
AB 3005	Jones-D Community development: mitigation fees	Finance and Development
AB 3060	Assembly Labor And Employment Committee Contractors: license enforcement	Miscellaneous
AB 3067	Assembly Veterans Affairs Committee Military and Veterans: Veterans' rental housing act	Miscellaneous
ACA 2	Walters-R Eminent domain	Miscellaneous
ACA 8	De La Torre-D Eminent domain	Miscellaneous
ACR 61	Lieber-D Joint Committee on Homelessness in California	Miscellaneous
AJR 3	Dymally-D Low-income home energy assistance	Miscellaneous
AJR 21	Portantino-D Public housing agencies	Finance and Development
AJR 45	Coto-D Mortgage loans: federal conforming/FHA mortgage loan limits	Mortgage/Foreclosure Reform
AJR 59	Solorio-D California subprime mortgage foreclosures	Mortgage/Foreclosure Reform
AJR 63	Sharon Runner-R Veterans' mortgage bonds	Finance and Development

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