Bill Text: CA AB1953 | 2011-2012 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Rental housing: tenant notice.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Passed) 2012-09-28 - Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 695, Statutes of 2012. [AB1953 Detail]

Download: California-2011-AB1953-Introduced.html

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BILL NUMBER: AB 1953	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Ammiano

                        FEBRUARY 23, 2012

   An act to amend Section 50853 of the Health and Safety Code,
relating to housing.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 1953, as introduced, Ammiano. Housing.
   Existing law requires the Department of Housing and Community
Development to provide to tenants and other interested persons
information concerning their legal rights and options when their
building is being proposed for conversion, as defined.
   This bill would make a technical, nonsubstantive change to those
provisions.
   Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: no.
State-mandated local program: no.


THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  SECTION 1.  Section 50853 of the Health and Safety Code is amended
to read:
   50853.  The department shall provide to tenants of subsidized
rental units, community organizations, local governmental agencies,
and other interested persons all of the following:
   (a) To the extent that information on federally and state
subsidized housing projects, eligible for conversion, is available
from federal, state, or other agencies, a written inventory of
information on those projects, upon demand to the public. For each
project, the information shall include, but  not be 
 is not  limited to, the project name and address, the
project owner, the earliest date of eligibility for subsidy
termination, the type of ownership, the number of units in the
building to be affected by conversion, the federal financing program,
the loan contract number, the amount and term, interest rate,
endorsement date, type of Section 8 contract, Section 8 contract
number, and any other information determined to be pertinent.
   (b) Written information concerning the legal rights,
responsibilities and options of owners and tenants when an owner
intends to convert the building.
   (c) Written information concerning available technical assistance,
within the state, for tenants and community nonprofits interested in
buying those properties from the owner.
   (d) Written information relating to the conversion process of
federally subsidized rental units and applicable federal, state, and
local laws.
   (e) Any other information or technical assistance determined by
the department to further the purposes of this chapter.