03/08/2001 01:35 PM Senate L&C

                                                                                                                                
              SB   6-MOBILE HOME PARK EVICTION NOTICE                                                                       
                                                                                                                              
CHAIRMAN RANDY PHILLIPS called the Senate Labor & Commerce                                                                    
Committee meeting to order  at 1:35 p.m. and announced SB 6 to be up                                                            
for consideration.                                                                                                              
                                                                                                                                
SENATOR  ELLIS, sponsor  of SB  6, said  he thought  there was  good                                                            
committee  discussion  on  pooling  resources  so mobile  home  park                                                            
residents could  relocate when needed. The drafter  recommended that                                                            
even though  it's a good  idea, to not put  it in statute,  however,                                                            
because it is already legal.  There is a proposal, version O, before                                                            
the committee  to move the dates forward, making them  a little more                                                            
reasonable for those involved.                                                                                                  
                                                                                                                                
SENATOR  DAVIS moved  to adopt  the committee  substitute  to SB  6,                                                            
version O. There were no objections and it was so ordered.                                                                      
                                                                                                                                
SENATOR  ELLIS commented  that even  though he thought  he would  be                                                            
making enemies  with the mobile park  owners, they have agreed  that                                                            
this is  a good and fair  idea. "It doesn't  seem that there  is any                                                            
opposition  to this helping hand to  folks who are caught  in a very                                                            
tough  situation and  could  become burdens  on the  social  service                                                            
system if we don't help them out a little bit here."                                                                            
                                                                                                                                
SENATOR TORGERSON  asked if there was a land designation  for mobile                                                            
home parks  or is the land zoned commercial  and they put  a park on                                                            
it.                                                                                                                             
                                                                                                                                
SENATOR ELLIS couldn't answer that, but said he would find out.                                                                 
                                                                                                                                
SENATOR  TORGERSON thought  the intent  was clearly  to have  mobile                                                            
home owners  move  out in the  summer time  with at  least 365  days                                                            
notice. He asked what date that notice would start from.                                                                        
                                                                                                                                
SENATOR  ELLIS  said he  would  get  an explicit  answer  for  that,                                                            
because everyone should know the rules.                                                                                         
                                                                                                                                
SENATOR LEMAN said he didn't  exactly understand the reasons for not                                                            
providing  the flexibility  for pooling. He  thought they should  be                                                            
able to  explicitly say,  "or provide the  ability for a pooling  of                                                            
resources…."  He  said he  intended to  work  on it  further in  the                                                            
Finance Committee.                                                                                                              
                                                                                                                                
SENATOR ELLIS thought it  would be worth another try to put explicit                                                            
language in the statute for pooling.                                                                                            
                                                                                                                                
SENATOR  LEMAN  moved to  pass  CSSB  6 (L&C)  from  committee  with                                                            
individual recommendations.  There were no objections  and it was so                                                            
ordered.