Proposed Housing Laws for California

Legislative Analysis # 2 of AB 555

A Licensing Bill that seeks Monopoly Control of Association Homeowners
How Correa , Dutra , Campbell, and their consultants , Jay Greenwood and Chris Tapio, duped the Assembly Committee on Appropriations
1. Bill analysis fails to disclose that all real estate brokers have been bribes by Correa and Dutra to support this bill. They automatically get a lmanagement license with only 3 hours of CID management instruction instead of the thirty hours required on non-brokers.

2. The analysis fails to disclose that there there are no testing requirements for management applicants.

3. The analysis fails to disclose that this bill creates a monopoly for a small clique of existing managers who have a long history of abusing and bankrupting homeowners.

For more detail see the SYNOPSIS OF OPPOSITION TO AB 555 and the more detailed OPPOSITION TO AB 555.


To register your opposition to legislative fraud , contact :

California Assembly Rules Committee:

Committee Jurisdiction

Primary jurisdictions are proposed amendments to the rules, and other matters relating to the business of the Legislature.

  Committee Members

Committee Member District Phone E-mail

Dennis Cardoza, Chair Dem-26 (916) 319-2026 [Dennis.Cardoza@assembly.ca.gov]

Bill Leonard, Vice Chair Rep-63 (916) 319-2063 [Assemblymember.Leonard@assembly.ca.gov]

Charlene Zettel Rep-75 (916) 319-2075 [assemblymember.zettel@assembly.ca.gov

Tim Leslie Rep-4 (916) 319-2004 [Assemblymember.Leslie@assembly.ca.gov]

Jerome Horton Dem-51 (916) 319-2051 [Assemblymember.Horton@assembly.ca.gov)

Carol Liu Dem-44 (916) 319-2044 [Assemblymember.Liu@assembly.ca.gov]

George Nakano Dem-53 (916) 319-2053 [Assemblymember.Nakano@assembly.ca.gov ]

Joseph Nation Dem-6 (916) 319-2006 [Assemblymember.Nation@Assembly.Ca.Gov ]  


To register your opposition with the authors of AB 555 contact:

Lou Correa (D-69 ) assemblymember.correa@assembly.ca.gov

John Dutra
(D-20) Assemblymember.Dutra@assembly.ca.gov


Legislative analysis #2 of Assembly Bill 555

presented to Assembly Appropriations Committee
by Correa, Dutra, Campbell and their consultants

May 14, 2001

Analyst: Chuck Nicol - hired by Carol Migden - Chair - Appropriations Committee

Date of Hearing: May 16, 2001

ASSEMBLY COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS
Carole Migden, Chairwoman

AB 555 (Dutra) - As Amended: April 30, 2001

Policy Committee: Business and
Professions Vote: 12-0

Urgency: No State Mandated Local Program:
Yes Reimbursable: No

SUMMARY

This bill establishes qualifications and registration
requirements for common interest development managers.
Specifically, this bill:

1)Creates the private California Common Interest Development
Manager Registration Council for registering individuals who
meet educational and other required specified qualifications
for becoming a common interest development (CID) manager.

2)Requires applicants, in order to register with the Council, to
satisfy specified educational requirements, including
completing 30 hours of instruction related to CID management.


3)Requires 15 hours of continuing education in order to renew
registrations for three years. Permits the council to charge
applicants fees to cover its costs.

4)Establishes that violation of the bill's provisions is a
misdemeanor punishable by a fine of up to $1,000, imprisonment
in county jail for up to one year, or both.

FISCAL EFFECT

Potential non-reimbursable costs to local governments for
investigation, prosecution, and incarceration, partially offset
by fine revenues.

COMMENTS

1)Purpose . In order to perform the tasks necessary to maintain a
CID, many homeowner association boards of directors hire
professional managers. Current law does not require common
interest development managers to meet any training or
education requirements. However, there are organizations that
provide voluntary education programs. According to supporters,
the bill seeks to minimize the mistakes and harms which can
occur in CIDs by requiring managers who are hired for
compensation to receive specified training and education and
with oversight by a private council of management
professionals.

2)Prior Legislation . Last year, AB 1893 (Dutra), which in the
Assembly required state registration and certification of CID
managers, was amended in the Senate to address an unrelated
issue.


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