Senate committee hears bill to bar bans on manufactured homes in new planned communities, extend tenant dispute program

The Senate Housing and Development Committee held a public hearing May 5 on House Bill 31 44, which would prohibit recorded instruments for new planned communities from banning manufactured dwellings or prefabricated structures and would extend by statute the sunset on grants and programs that support manufactured-home park tenant dispute resolution through Jan. 2, 2031.

The bill summary read into the record said the measure “prohibits provisions in new recorded instruments or governing documents of planned communities banning the siting of manufactured dwellings or prefabricated structures when they otherwise allow residential housing,” and that the measure “extends through 01/02/2031 programs providing grants for low income facility tenant landlord dispute resolution services…