2025 Legislative Summary

2025 Legislation Summary

It was a busy legislative year. CMPA works to facilitate the challenging process of educating legislators and their staff on proposed legislation that could significantly impact manufactured home communities. Much of our work on behalf of CMPA this year has been focused on threatening bills introduced under the guise of helping mobilehome park residents recover from the loss of their homes in the Palisades Fire.

 

The following is a list of the bills addressed in the 2025 Session. For the full text, click on the bill number underlined and in blue. All will go into effect January 1, 2026 unless stated otherwise.

 

SB 749 (Allen, D-El Segundo) Defeated! – Forced Sale Requirement

The bill dictating who a mobilehome park can be sold to and at what price is dead. 

 

SB 610 (Perez, D-Alhambra) Significantly Amended – Disaster Assistance for Tenants, Mobilehome Parks, and Mortgage included so many problematic and unconstitutional provisions that it is hard to document them all. CMPA worked with WMA to oppose this bill throughout the year and were able to obtain significant amendments. The only provisions that remain applicable to mobilehome parks is the requirement for owners to forego rent during an evacuation. With these amendments, WMA removed its opposition to the bill. CMPA remained opposed to the bill. 

 

AB 635 (Ahrens, D-Sunnyvale) Defeated! – Proposed MRLPP Modifications

This bill would have modified the Mobilehome Residency Law Protection Program (MRLPP) requiring HCD to refer up to a total of 25 alleged violations of the Mobilehome Residency Law to the office of the Attorney General. The MRLPP has been a disaster and expanding it further would have been an even bigger disaster. 

 

AB 925 (Addis, D-Morrow Bay) Defeated! – Emergency Preparedness

For the second year in a row, CMPA and WMA were able to successfully defeat this proposal. This bill would have expanded emergency preparedness requirements for mobile home and RV parks and increased the Permit to Operate fee from $4 to $10 per space.

 

AB 806 (Connolly, D-Petaluma) Significantly Amended – Mobilehome Cooling Systems

This bill would have required mobilehome parks to provide air conditioning in common areas at no extra charge to residents. CMPA and WMA successfully had this bill amended so that it would not prohibit park management from denying a homeowner the ability to install a cooling system in the owner’s mobilehome if a park’s electrical system cannot handle the increased load. CMPA remained opposed due to the elimination of a park owner’s ability to prohibit residents from installing air conditioners. The bill included a caveat that park owner’s can limit the installation of air conditioners when the park’s electrical system cannot handle the load. However, the language is poorly drafted, and it is unclear how a park owner would determine which residents should or shouldn’t be able to install an air conditioner or who would determine whether a park’s electrical system was at capacity.

 

SB 522 (Wahab, D-Fremont) Defeated! – Housing, Tenant Protections and Rent Control

This would have impacted the mobilehome parks and other rental property in Los Angeles County that were lost in the fire. If they rebuilt, they would remain under rent control.

 

AB 391 (Rodriguez, D-Pomona) Supported and Signed Into Law – Digital MRL Notices to Mobilehome Owners

This bill will allow park managers to electronically distribute copies of the Mobilehome Residency Law to residents who volunteer to receive their documents in a digital format.

 

SB 525 (Jones, R-Santee) Supported & Signed Into Law – California FAIR Plan

Defines “basic property insurance” offered through the FAIR Plan to include manufactured homes insurance that is comparable to basic property insurance sold for residential dwellings.

 

AB 456 (Connolly, D-Petaluma) Monitored & Amended – Mobilehome Sales & Repairs

Ameneded to require the seller to provide a copy of the Transfer Disclosure Statement to Park management. It also requires management to notify a prospective tenant of the approval or rejection of a prospective tenant application to rent within 15 calendar days instead of 10 days of submittal, or the application is deemed approved.

 

SB 436 (Wahab, D-Fremont) Defeated! – Unlawful Detainer Grace Period

Would have provided a tenant with a 14 day grace period to pay rent after an UD action. It would also allow a tenant to apply for rental assistance without having to prove financial hardship and delay paying rent until the request for assistance is granted or denied.