republic-os/legislation/us/states/ca/20112012/ab-1797.md

---
type: "Bill"
title: "Mobilehome Park Purchase Fund."
description: "Existing law authorizes the Department of Housing and Community Development to make loans from the Mobilehome Park Purchase Fund to qualified mobilehome park residents, resident organizations, and nonprofit housing sponsors or local public entities to finance conversion of the parks to resident ownership and to make monthly housing costs affordable. Existing law limits the interest rate on loans to a rate of 3% per annum."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20112012"
identifier: "AB 1797"
citation: "California AB 1797 (20112012)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Mobilehome Park Purchase Fund."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Torres"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 22
vote_count: 7
first_action: "2012-02-21"
last_action: "2012-09-25"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/87188970-f724-4037-ab71-b47a7ab62217"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB1797"
source_hash: "1d95dad305b0778ede9f80391f01a2a7c34a5ba7da86b67e6505e833e9cfb2a8"
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 1797 (20112012) — Mobilehome Park Purchase Fund.

Existing law authorizes the Department of Housing and Community Development to make loans from the Mobilehome Park Purchase Fund to qualified mobilehome park residents, resident organizations, and nonprofit housing sponsors or local public entities to finance conversion of the parks to resident ownership and to make monthly housing costs affordable. Existing law limits the interest rate on loans to a rate of 3% per annum.

## Version chain

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

1. **02/21/12 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB1797&version=20110AB179799INT)
2. **04/19/12 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB1797&version=20110AB179798AMD)
3. **06/26/12 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB1797&version=20110AB179797AMD)
4. **09/25/12 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB1797&version=20110AB179795CHP)
5. **AB1797** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB1797)
6. **08/31/12 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB1797&version=20110AB179796ENR)

## Votes

- AB 1797 TORRES Concurrence in Senate Amendments — **52–28** (pass) · lower
- Do pass. — **5–2** (pass) · upper
- AB 1797 TORRES Assembly Third Reading — **51–26** (pass) · lower
- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on Appropriations. — **5–1** (pass) · lower
- Do pass as amended, and re-refer to the Committee on Appropriations. — **6–3** (pass) · upper
- 3rd Reading AB1797 Torres By Correa — **23–15** (pass) · upper
- Do pass. — **12–5** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Torres — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2012-02-21** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
- **2012-02-22** From printer. May be heard in committee March 23.
- **2012-03-01** Referred to Com. on H. & C.D. `referral-committee`
- **2012-04-19** 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`
- **2012-04-23** Re-referred to Com. on H. & C.D. `referral-committee`
- **2012-04-25** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 5. Noes 1.) (April 25). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `referral-committee, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2012-05-09** In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to APPR. suspense file. `referral-committee`
- **2012-05-25** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 12. Noes 5.) (May 25). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2012-05-25** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2012-05-29** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 51. Noes 26. Page 5047.) `reading-3, reading-1, passage`
- **2012-05-29** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2012-06-07** Referred to Com. on T. & H. `referral-committee`
- **2012-06-25** From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 6. Noes 3.) (June 19). `amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2012-06-26** Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `reading-2, reading-1, amendment-passage, referral-committee`
- **2012-08-07** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 5. Noes 2.) (August 6). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2012-08-08** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2012-08-22** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 23. Noes 15. Page 4696.). `reading-3, reading-1, passage`
- **2012-08-22** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after August 24 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
- **2012-08-27** Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 52. Noes 28. Page 6305.). `committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage`
- **2012-09-06** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 5:45 p.m.
- **2012-09-25** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2012-09-25** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 558, Statutes of 2012.

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/87188970-f724-4037-ab71-b47a7ab62217`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).