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ASSEMBLY BILL 1164 (HAWKINS – 1995)

CHAPTER 331, STATUTES OF 1995 - AB 1164

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Sections in the Civil and Health and Safety Codes related to housing and rent control were affected in 1995 following legislative passage of Assembly Bill 1164.  (See Exhibit A, #1d)  Assembly member Phil Hawkins introduced Assembly Bill 1164 on February 23, 1995.  (See Exhibit A, #1a)  In this form, Assembly Bill 1164 was heard by the Assembly Committee on Housing and Community Development where policy issues raised by the bill were considered.  (See Exhibit A, #3)  Assembly Bill 1164 was approved by the Assembly, with out being amended, and forwarded to the Senate on April 20, 1995.  (See Exhibit A, #2)

While in the Senate, the bill was heard in the Committee on Housing and Land Use.  (See Exhibit A, #6)  Subsequent to approval by that Committee, the measure was assigned to the Senate Committee on Appropriations which examined its fiscal implications.  (See Exhibit A, #2)  Two amendments were made to Assembly Bill 1164 by the Senate, on July 6 and July 20, 1995.  (See Exhibit A, #1b, #1c, and #2) 

It is with the July 20th amendments that the bill incorporated legislation limiting rent control ordinances from another 1995 measure, Senate Bill 1257.  (See Exhibit A, #1c and #11, document A-11)  The Office of Senate Floor Analyses indicated that the July 20th amendments “. . . revise provisions contained in SB 1257 (Costa) relating to rent control and the preemption of local vacancy controls on rental of residential dwellings.”  (See Exhibit A, #8b, page 1)
 
The Assembly approved the Senate amendments and forwarded Assembly Bill 1164 to the Governor on July 27, 1995.  Governor Pete Wilson signed the bill on August 3, 1995, and it was recorded by the Secretary of State on August 4, 1995 as Chapter 331 of the Statutes of that year.  (See Exhibit A, #1d and #2)

Support for the bill was received by the Coalition for Fair Rental Policy, the California Building Industry Association, the California League of Savings Institutions, the California Land Title Association, the California Mortgage Bankers Association, and various property owners and apartment associations throughout California.  (See Exhibit A, #12, documents PE-13 and PE-14)