republic-os/legislation/us/states/ca/20172018/sb-542.md

---
type: "Bill"
title: "Manufactured Housing Act of 1980: notice of transfer and release of liability."
description: "Existing law, the Manufactured Housing Act of 1980, requires, with certain exceptions, manufactured homes, mobilehomes, commercial coaches, and floating homes sold or used within this state to be subject to annual registration with the Department of Housing and Community Development upon the appropriate forms approved by the department and payment of prescribed registration fees. Existing law prohibits transfer of title of a registered manufactured home, mobilehome, commercial coach, truck camper, or floating home until the transferor has properly endorsed and delivered the certificate of title and delivery of the registration card to the transferee. Existing law makes it unlawful for any person to fail or neglect properly to endorse, date, and deliver the certificate of title and, when having possession, to fail to deliver the registration card to a transferee who is lawfully entitled to a transfer of registration."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20172018"
identifier: "SB 542"
citation: "California SB 542 (20172018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Manufactured Housing Act of 1980: notice of transfer and release of liability."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Leyva"]
version_count: 7
action_count: 28
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2017-02-16"
last_action: "2017-10-15"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/40e463de-b5d8-4185-9cf4-207dfdb274a3"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB542"
source_hash: "3a7abde1245d6682657523aeb2556a04e50fb57cb3385ea8a0943d1bdebbce95"
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 SB 542 (20172018) — Manufactured Housing Act of 1980: notice of transfer and release of liability.

Existing law, the Manufactured Housing Act of 1980, requires, with certain exceptions, manufactured homes, mobilehomes, commercial coaches, and floating homes sold or used within this state to be subject to annual registration with the Department of Housing and Community Development upon the appropriate forms approved by the department and payment of prescribed registration fees. Existing law prohibits transfer of title of a registered manufactured home, mobilehome, commercial coach, truck camper, or floating home until the transferor has properly endorsed and delivered the certificate of title and delivery of the registration card to the transferee. Existing law makes it unlawful for any person to fail or neglect properly to endorse, date, and deliver the certificate of title and, when having possession, to fail to deliver the registration card to a transferee who is lawfully entitled to a transfer of registration.

## Version chain

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

1. **02/16/17 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB542&version=20170SB54299INT)
2. **03/21/17 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB542&version=20170SB54298AMD)
3. **04/20/17 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB542&version=20170SB54297AMD)
4. **06/21/17 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB542&version=20170SB54296AMD)
5. **10/15/17 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB542&version=20170SB54294CHP)
6. **SB542** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB542)
7. **09/07/17 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB542&version=20170SB54295ENR)

## Votes

- Special Consent SB542 — **40–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Leyva — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2017-02-16** Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. `introduction, reading-1`
- **2017-02-17** From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 19.
- **2017-03-02** Referred to Coms. on T. & H. and JUD. `referral-committee`
- **2017-03-21** From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on T. & H. `reading-2, referral-committee, amendment-passage, committee-passage, reading-1`
- **2017-03-28** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on JUD. with recommendation: To consent calendar. (Ayes 12. Noes 0.) (March 28). Re-referred to Com. on JUD. `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2017-03-30** Set for hearing April 18.
- **2017-04-19** From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To consent calendar. (Ayes 7. Noes 0. Page 746.) (April 18). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, amendment-passage`
- **2017-04-20** Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `amendment-passage, reading-2, referral-committee, reading-1`
- **2017-05-01** Set for hearing May 8.
- **2017-05-03** May 8 hearing postponed by committee.
- **2017-05-04** Set for hearing May 15.
- **2017-05-15** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 7. Noes 0. Page 1080.) (May 15). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2017-05-16** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2017-05-30** Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 40. Noes 0. Page 1249.) Ordered to the Assembly. `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2017-05-31** In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. `reading-1`
- **2017-06-12** Referred to Coms. on H. & C.D. and JUD. `referral-committee`
- **2017-06-21** From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on H. & C.D. `reading-2, referral-committee, amendment-passage, committee-passage, reading-1`
- **2017-06-28** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on JUD. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (June 28). Re-referred to Com. on JUD. `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2017-07-11** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To consent calendar. (Ayes 11. Noes 0.) (July 11). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2017-08-23** From committee: Do pass. Ordered to consent calendar. (Ayes 15. Noes 0.) (August 23). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2017-08-24** Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2017-08-31** Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 73. Noes 0. Page 2854.) Ordered to the Senate. `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2017-08-31** In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
- **2017-09-01** Ordered to special consent calendar.
- **2017-09-05** Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 40. Noes 0. Page 2479.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling. `committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage`
- **2017-09-11** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.
- **2017-10-15** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2017-10-15** Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 832, Statutes of 2017.

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/40e463de-b5d8-4185-9cf4-207dfdb274a3`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).