BILL · 2019–20 SESSION · LATEST VERSION SSB 6230

SB 6230: Mobile home community sales

Concerning the sale or lease of manufactured/mobile home communities and the property on which they sit.

Summary

Requires manufactured/mobile home community (MHC) landlords to provide a written notice of opportunity to purchase an MHC to each tenant, the Department of Commerce (Commerce), and the Housing Finance Commission under certain circumstances.
Requires homeowners' associations and eligible organizations be permitted 45 days after receipt of a notice to provide the landlord with a notice of intent to consider purchase or lease of the MHC.
Requires a landlord to wait 120 days after receipt of notice of intent before accepting an offer to purchase or lease the park from a person or entity other than a homeowners' association or eligible organization.
Requires, rather than encourages, a landlord to negotiate in good faith with homeowners' associations and eligible organizations when selling or leasing an MHC or the property on which it sits.
Directs Commerce to maintain a list of all homeowners' associations and eligible organizations submitting a written request to receive notices of opportunity to purchase.
Provides penalties for a landlord who willfully fails to comply with the notice, waiting period, or good faith requirements.

From the Senate Bill Report (SB 6230), written by the Legislature's nonpartisan staff. Read the full report ↗

Did not pass Did not pass · stalled on the Senate floor

AN ACT Relating to the sale or lease of manufactured/mobile home communities and the property on which they sit;

No recorded floor votes.

Feb 24, 2020Senate Rules "X" file. (SSB 6230)
Feb 24, 2020Senate Rules "X" file.
Feb 4, 2020Passed to Rules Committee for second reading. (SSB 6230)
Feb 4, 2020Passed to Rules Committee for second reading.
Feb 3, 2020Minority; without recommendation. (SSB 6230)
Feb 3, 2020HSA - Majority; 1st substitute bill be substituted, do pass. (SSB 6230)
Feb 3, 2020Minority; do not pass. (SSB 6230)
Feb 3, 2020Minority; do not pass.
Feb 3, 2020HSA - Majority; 1st substitute bill be substituted, do pass.
Feb 3, 2020Minority; without recommendation.
Jan 13, 2020First reading, referred to Housing Stability & Affordability.
Jan 10, 2020Prefiled for introduction.

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