---
type: "Bill"
title: "Housing Omnibus Act."
description: "(1) The Mobilehome Residency law requires the local agency of any city, including a charter city, county, or city and county that administers an ordinance, rule, regulation, or initiative measure that establishes a maximum amount that management of a mobilehome park may charge a tenant for rent to permit the management to separately charge a homeowner for certain fees, as specified. Existing law exempts from this requirement, among other things, costs that are imposed on management for a fine, forfeiture, penalty, money damages, or fee assessed or awarded by a court of law against the management for a violation of the Mobilehome Residency Law."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20112012"
identifier: "AB 2697"
citation: "California AB 2697 (20112012)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Housing Omnibus Act."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Committee on Housing and Community Development"]
version_count: 8
action_count: 26
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2012-03-21"
last_action: "2012-09-29"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/162fb42d-0fec-4b35-b600-5276b2585e84"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB2697"
source_hash: "818e151e9cff84e67c3e5d72fa983c6f3915942d828791408d93c2298e915b84"
vintage: "2026-07-01"
source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
confidence: "reported"
tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-ca"]
---

# California AB 2697 (20112012) — Housing Omnibus Act.

(1) The Mobilehome Residency law requires the local agency of any city, including a charter city, county, or city and county that administers an ordinance, rule, regulation, or initiative measure that establishes a maximum amount that management of a mobilehome park may charge a tenant for rent to permit the management to separately charge a homeowner for certain fees, as specified. Existing law exempts from this requirement, among other things, costs that are imposed on management for a fine, forfeiture, penalty, money damages, or fee assessed or awarded by a court of law against the management for a violation of the Mobilehome Residency Law.

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **03/21/12 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB2697&version=20110AB269799INT)
2. **05/03/12 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB2697&version=20110AB269798AMD)
3. **06/19/12 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB2697&version=20110AB269797AMD)
4. **07/05/12 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB2697&version=20110AB269796AMD)
5. **08/22/12 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB2697&version=20110AB269795AMD)
6. **09/29/12 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB2697&version=20110AB269793CHP)
7. **AB2697** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB2697)
8. **09/11/12 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB2697&version=20110AB269794ENR)

## Votes

- Do pass as amended. To Consent Calendar. — **9–0** (pass) · upper
- AB 2697 H. & C.D. Concurrence in Senate Amendments By TORRES — **80–0** (pass) · lower
- AB 2697 H. & C.D. Consent Calendar Second Day — **75–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass, to Consent Calendar. — **6–0** (pass) · lower
- 3rd Reading AB2697 Committee on H. & C.D.(Torres) By DeSaulnier — **37–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Committee on Housing and Community Development — primary (person)

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **2012-03-21** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
- **2012-03-22** From printer. May be heard in committee April 21.
- **2012-04-09** Referred to Com. on H. & C.D. `referral-committee`
- **2012-05-03** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on H. & C.D. Read second time and amended. `reading-2, amendment-introduction, reading-1, amendment-passage`
- **2012-05-07** Re-referred to Com. on H. & C.D. `referral-committee`
- **2012-05-09** From committee: Do pass. To consent calendar. (Ayes 6. Noes 0.) (May 9). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2012-05-10** Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2012-05-17** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 75. Noes 0. Page 4887.) `reading-3, reading-1, passage`
- **2012-05-17** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2012-05-24** Referred to Com. on T. & H. `referral-committee`
- **2012-06-19** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on T. & H. `reading-2, amendment-introduction, reading-1, amendment-passage, referral-committee`
- **2012-07-03** From committee: Do pass as amended. To consent calendar. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.) (July 2). `amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2012-07-05** Read second time and amended. Ordered to consent calendar. `reading-2, reading-1, amendment-passage`
- **2012-08-06** From consent calendar.
- **2012-08-06** Ordered to third reading.
- **2012-08-09** Ordered to inactive file at the request of Senator DeSaulnier.
- **2012-08-22** From inactive file.
- **2012-08-22** Ordered to second reading.
- **2012-08-22** Read second time and amended. Ordered to second reading. `reading-2, reading-1, amendment-passage`
- **2012-08-23** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2012-08-30** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 37. Noes 0. Page 5033.). `reading-3, reading-1, passage`
- **2012-08-30** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending.
- **2012-08-31** Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 80. Noes 0. Page 6749.). `committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage`
- **2012-09-13** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3:30 p.m.
- **2012-09-29** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2012-09-29** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 770, Statutes of 2012.

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/162fb42d-0fec-4b35-b600-5276b2585e84`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).