Assembly Standing Committee on Housing and Community Development

All right. Welcome to the Assembly Housing and Community Development Committee hearing. We okay, are we ready to start? Yeah. All right. We have one item on our agenda today. AB754 Connolly for concurrence and Senate amendments. We will have two main witnesses in support and opposition if needed.

And feel free to submit written testimony through the position portal on the Committee's website. And this will become an official record of the bill. We will not permit conduct that disrupts, disturbs or otherwise impedes the orderly conduct of today's proceedings. We are in room 444 in the Capitol. We are open for in person attendance.

All encouraged to watch from the live stream and we are going to start today as a Subcommitee. Do not yet have quorum, but I will call our person Only. Item Welcome Mr. Connolly. AB754 Item Number 1.

Good Morning Chair and Members. Thank you for hearing this sole item. AB754A district specific bill that updates the floating home residency law in Marin county to address leasing infrastructure challenges unique to floating home communities in Assembly District 12. AB754 addresses unintended consequences related to previous legislation.

AB252 which was passed in 2022 in response to unprecedented rate hikes at Barnhill Marina in Alameda. AB252 created the first ever renter protections for floating homeowners for Alameda, Contra Costa and Marin counties. After it passed, however, it became clear AB252 structure simply didn't work in Marin.

Marin's floating homes are literally built differently than in the other counties with concrete barges that require long term leases to accompany mortgages. And Marina's had a long standing tradition of issuing these long term leases with annual increases tied to CPI.

In response to AB 252, Marin's marina owners shortened leases amidst financial uncertainty as they lost key turnover, rent revenue and could no longer Fund infrastructure improvement. So over the last two years I've worked closely with our county supervisor, county staff, marina operators and floating home residents attending dockside events, joining community meetings and listening carefully on the ground.

This effort led to this Bill. AB754 a local solution developed and refined over two and a half years with extensive input from both sides. Want to thank Chair Haney, his staff Members of the community for hearing this bill.

We were waiting for the completion of a community wide survey in April to gauge support for the changes in AB 754, which is why it was amended later in the session.

The floating Homes Association held dozens of meeting at all docks which resulted in the community wide survey in April, confirming 93% support from residents and all five marina owners.

The result is AB 754, a carefully negotiated update to the prior bill, AB 2532 that preserves strong renter protections while ensuring marinas remain financially viable and capable of sustaining critical infrastructure improvements. The bill has no opposition. No. No votes to date, and has received overwhelming bipartisan support.

With me to testify in support is Karen Lang of Shaw Yoder, representing the County of Marin. And I respectfully ask for an Aye vote.

Thank you.

Good morning, Mr. Chair. Members, thank you very much for hearing the bill on concurrence. Apologies for not having to go through the regular process, but as the Assemblyman was noting, the bill is not before you without every single affected homeowner in Marin having an opportunity to read the bill and provide comment.

They didn't want to bring anything to you or to their Member without having local support, which they do. This is something that they've been trying to address for over two years. It's. And what's before you is supportable on all sides. All five marina owners are on record in support.

He used all my good points, so I'm just happy to answer any questions. And thank you for hearing the bill today. And ask for your Aye vote.

Great. Thank you. And I don't see any. There's no registered opposition, so we don't have anyone here to testify in opposition. But is there anyone who is here who wants to state their position on the bill? Not seeing anyone. Okay. We will close public comment, and I will bring it back up here to Committee Members. Ms. Wilson.

I'd like to thank the author for working really hard to get the public input prior to, you know, progressing on the bill and ensure that all sides agreed. It truly is a reflection of a community agreement. And so thank you for making that extra effort and appreciate that.

And when the time is appropriate, I'll move the bill. Thank you.

Thank you.

Great. We don't yet have quorum, but need, I think, one or two more other Members not seeing any comments? Well, congratulations. This is a rent cap Bill that has no opposition. It has total unanimous support. See, Mr. Coll, it's possible to do a rent. No.

I appreciate all of your leadership and certainly for bringing everyone together and for being so engaged with it and great that everyone is on board. And I'll give you the opportunity to close.

Yeah. Thank you again for the comments and the consideration this morning and respectfully asked for an Aye vote..

Thank you. We will take it up at the appropriate time when we have, I think, one More person. Thank you. Thanks.

All right, welcome back, everyone.

Present. There we go.

[Roll Call] We have quorums here.

All right. And do we have a motion and a second? Oh, no. Ms. Wilson, move the Bill. Okay. All right. All right.

Because Ash, because of your work in this General space, I would defer to have it on record.

All right, we have a motion from Mr. Kalra and a second from. Okay, and a second from Ms. Wicks. Ms. Wilson will get the first motion that she wants at the next year's first hearing and we'll take a roll call vote, please.

The motion is that the Senate amendments be concurred in. [Roll Call]

So this Bill does not have the votes. You do not need to stay.

But I do want to know. Want to know the team.

Yeah, well, we just.

Assemblymember Garcia, your vote on AB 754 Senate amendments be concurred in. How do you vote? Assemblymember Garcia aye.

Yeah, thank you.

Thank you.

We got you. This will take five seconds.

Assemblymember Quirk-Silva, your vote on AB 754 concurrence in Senate amendments. Aye, Assemblymember Quirk-Silva aye. And sir, we have 7 to 0 with 2 not voting.

All right, 7 to 0 with 2 not voting. And these, how is it? Amendments are concurred in. Okay. All right. Meeting's adjourned. Thank you.