Housing Omnibus Act.

(1) The Mobilehome Residency law requires the local agency of any city, including a charter city, county, or city and county that administers an ordinance, rule, regulation, or initiative measure that establishes a maximum amount that management of a mobilehome park may charge a tenant for rent to permit the management to separately charge a homeowner for certain fees, as specified. Existing law exempts from this requirement, among other things, costs that are imposed on management for a fine, forfeiture, penalty, money damages, or fee assessed or awarded by a court of law against the management for a violation of the Mobilehome Residency Law. This bill would correct an erroneous cross-reference within this provision. (2) Existing law sets forth standards for determining liability in an action seeking the recovery of damages arising out of, or related to, deficiencies in residential construction, design, and related issues, as specified, including standards governing the installation of heating, if any. This bill would revise those standards to require heating to be installed so as to be capable of maintaining a room temperature of 70 degrees Fahrenheit at a point 3 feet above the floor in any living space if the heating was installed pursuant to a building permit application submitted prior to January 1, 2008, or capable of maintaining a room temperature of 68 degrees Fahrenheit at a point 3 feet above the floor and 2 feet from the exterior walls in all habitable rooms at the design temperature if the heating was installed pursuant to a building permit application submitted on or after January 1, 2008. (3) The Common Interest Development Open Meeting Act, within the Davis-Stirling Common Interest Development Act, prohibits a board of directors from conducting a meeting via a series of electronic transmissions, except in the case of an emergency meeting. Existing law requires the board, individually or collectively, to consent in writing to the conduct of an emergency meeting of the board via electronic transmission, and authorizes that written consent to be transmitted electronically. This bill would make a technical, nonsubstantive change to this provision. (4) The Common Interest Development Open Meeting Act, within the Davis-Stirling Common Interest Development Act, defines the term "meeting" to include a teleconference in which a majority of the members of the board, in different locations are connected by electronic means, as specified, requires the notice of a teleconference meeting to identify at least one physical location so that members of the association may attend, and requires at least one member of the board of directors to be present at that location. This bill would instead require that at least one member of the board of directors or a person designated by the board be present at that location. (5) The Davis-Stirling Common Interest Development Act requires the owner of a separate interest, as soon as practicable before transfer of title to the separate interest or execution of a real property sales contract, to provide various items to the prospective purchaser, including, among other things, a statement describing any prohibition, and its applicability, contained in the governing documents against the rental or leasing of any separate interest in the common interest development to a renter, lessee, or tenant. This bill would eliminate the requirement to describe the applicability of the prohibition. (6) The Manufactured Housing Act of 1980 requires the Department of Housing and Community Development to administer occupational licenses for dealers, as defined. The act authorizes a dealer to display manufactured homes, mobilehomes, or commercial coaches at a fair, exposition, or similar exhibit for no more than 30 days, and defines "mobilehome fair or exposition" to mean a display of manufactured homes, mobilehomes, or commercial coaches not limited to one dealer and not in a mobilehome park. This bill would remove the 30-day limit on the display of manufactured homes, mobilehome, or commercial coaches at a fair, exposition, or similar exhibit. The bill would also revise the definition of "mobilehome fair or exposition" to mean a display of manufactured homes, mobilehomes, or commercial coaches not in a mobilehome park and for which the initial opportunity to display is open to all dealers. The bill would also specify that a display does not qualify as a business location or an established place of business for the purposes of procuring or maintaining a dealer's license. (7) The California Building Standards Law provides for the promulgation of building standards by state agencies by requiring all state agencies that adopt or propose adoption of any building standard to submit the building standard to the California Building Standards Commission for approval or adoption. Existing law requires the commission to publish, or cause to be published, editions of the code in its entirety once every 3 years. Existing law requires the commission to publish the text of a specified provision within the area of the code concerning single-family residential occupancies with a note specifying that the regulations may be subject to local government modification. This bill would correct an erroneous cross-reference within that provision. (8) This bill would incorporate additional changes in Section 1368 of the Civil Code proposed by AB 1838, that would become operative only if AB 1838 and this bill are both chaptered and become effective on or before January 1, 2013, and this bill is chaptered last.