Bill Text: CA SB18 | 2019-2020 | Regular Session | Amended
Bill Title: Keep Californians Housed Act.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 7-0)
Status: (Passed) 2019-07-30 - Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 134, Statutes of 2019. [SB18 Detail]
Download: California-2019-SB18-Amended.html
Amended
IN
Senate
March 25, 2019 |
Amended
IN
Senate
March 04, 2019 |
Senate Bill | No. 18 |
Introduced by Senator Skinner (Principal coauthor: Assembly Member Ting) (Coauthors: Senators Beall and Wiener) (Coauthors: Assembly Members Bonta and Wicks) |
December 03, 2018 |
LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
(1)
(2)Existing law establishes the Department of Housing and Community Development and requires, among other things, that it update and provide a revision of the California Statewide Housing Plan to the Legislature every 4 years, as provided.
This bill, no later than January 1, 2021, would require the department to develop and publish on its
internet website, and to annually update, a guide to all state laws pertaining to landlords and the landlord-tenant relationship. The bill would also require the department to survey each city in this state to determine which cities, if any, provide resources or programs to inform landlords of their legal rights and obligations and to post on its internet website a list of those cities which, in the judgment of the department, have the most robust resources and programs.
Digest Key
Vote: MAJORITY Appropriation: NO Fiscal Committee: YES Local Program: NOBill Text
The people of the State of California do enact as follows:
SECTION 1.
This act shall be known, and may be cited, as the Keep Californians Housed Act.SEC. 2.
The Legislature finds and declares the following:SEC. 3.
Section 314 is added to the Business and Professions Code, to read:314.
(a) (1) No later than January 1, 2021, the department shall publish on its internet website an updated guide to all state laws pertaining to landlords and the landlord-tenant relationship. The department shall update the guide biannually thereafter.SEC. 3.SEC. 4.
Section 1161b of the Code of Civil Procedure is amended to read:1161b.
(a) Notwithstanding Section 1161a, a tenant or subtenant in possession of a rental housing unit under a month-to-month lease or periodic tenancy at the time the property is sold in foreclosure shall be given 90 days’ written notice to quit pursuant to Section 1162 before the tenant or subtenant may be removed from the property as prescribed in this chapter.(a)(1)No later than January 1, 2021, the department shall develop and publish on its internet website a guide to all state laws pertaining to landlords and the landlord-tenant relationship. The department shall update the guide annually thereafter.
(2)In developing the guide required by this subdivision, the department shall include a template for cities and counties to add information pertaining to their ordinances regulating the landlord-tenant relationship.
The department shall make the guide, along with the template required by this paragraph, available to each city and each county in this state in a form that allows for a city or county to add information pertaining to its ordinances.
(b)The department shall survey each city in this state to determine which cities, if any, provide resources or programs to inform landlords of their legal rights and obligations. The department shall publish on its internet website a list of those cities which, in the judgment of the department, have the most robust resources and programs.
SEC. 5.
Section 50490.6 is added to the Health and Safety Code, to read:50490.6.
(a) In addition to any other moneys made available for purposes of the program, the sum of ____ dollars ($____) shall be made available, upon appropriation by the Legislature, to the department to be used as provided in this section.(a)There is hereby created in the State Treasury the Homelessness Prevention and Legal Aid Fund.
(b)Upon appropriation by the Legislature, all moneys in the fund shall be used for the purpose of providing legal aid to tenants facing eviction, including by means of an unlawful detainer action pursuant to Chapter 4 (commencing with Section 1159) of Title 3 of Part 3 of the Code of Civil Procedure, or displacement.
(c)The department shall distribute funds made available for purposes of this chapter in the form of grants awarded on a competitive basis, including grants to cities and counties to establish
their own tenant legal aid programs, as provided by law.