Concerning the notice of sale or lease of manufactured/mobile home communities.
Senate Bill 5298 modifies the process for selling manufactured/mobile home communities, directly affecting community owners and their tenants. It requires owners to provide written notice of their intent to sell to each tenant, qualified tenant organizations, and several government agencies before marketing the property or considering an offer. Tenants, acting through a qualified organization, are then given 70 days to express interest in purchasing the community. The bill also mandates good faith negotiation, including owners providing tenants access to information like operating expenses, and outlines remedies for substantial non-compliance.
Bill status
signed
all 5 stages cleared
Introduction
Jan 2025
Committee Review
Apr 2025
Senate Passage
Apr 2025
House Passage
Apr 2025
Signed into Law
May 2025
Introduced Jan 16, 2025
Signed May 7, 2025
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The bill was certified as passed by both the Senate and House, adding official legislative history and signatures. Substantively, the requirements for delivering a notice of opportunity to purchase a manufactured home community were simplified by removing the mandate to include a complete list of all tenants and their contact information, reducing the administrative burden on the owner while retaining the requirement to send one copy of the notice to each tenant.
TECHNICAL
Added certification pages confirming the bill passed the Senate and House with specific vote counts and dates.
REQUIREMENT
Removed the requirement to include a complete list of all current known tenants and their contact information when delivering the notice of opportunity to purchase to the department of commerce.
Simplified the delivery requirements to only include sending one copy of the notice to each tenant of the community.
Floor votes · Senate Apr 18, 2025 · House Apr 9, 2025
How they voted
50–0
Passed · 1 other
Total votes 51
Apr 18, 2025
D
Democratic31
96% Yea
R
Republican20
100% Yea
Vote distribution
All Yea
All Nay
Mixed
No data
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Actions timeline
Total actions
35
Key actions
18
Committee
15
May 7, 2025
Signed into law
Governor signed.
executive
Apr 22, 2025
Lower · Passed
Speaker signed.
lower
Apr 19, 2025
Upper · Passed
President signed.
upper
Apr 18, 2025
Upper · Passed
Passed final passage; yeas, 48; nays, 0; absent, 0; excused, 1.
upper
Apr 18, 2025
Upper · Passed
Senate concurred in House amendments.
upper
Apr 9, 2025
Lower · Passed
Committee amendment(s) adopted with no other amendments.
lower
Apr 9, 2025
House · Passed
House Vote: pass (100-0)
house
Mar 26, 2025
Committee
Referred to Rules 2 Review.
lower
Mar 24, 2025
Lower · Passed
HOUS - Majority; do pass with amendment(s).
lower
Mar 24, 2025
Lower · Passed
Executive action taken in the House Committee on Housing at 1:30 PM.
lower
Mar 20, 2025
Lower · Passed
Executive session scheduled, but no action was taken in the House Committee on Housing at 8:00 AM.
lower
Mar 17, 2025
Lower · Passed
Public hearing in the House Committee on Housing at 1:30 PM.
lower
Feb 27, 2025
Upper · Passed
Minority; without recommendation.
upper
Feb 27, 2025
Upper · Passed
Minority; do not pass.
upper
Feb 27, 2025
Upper · Passed
WM - Majority; do pass 1st substitute bill proposed by Housing.
upper
Feb 27, 2025
Upper · Passed
Executive action taken in the Senate Committee on Ways & Means at 1:30 PM.
upper
Feb 18, 2025
Upper · Passed
Public hearing in the Senate Committee on Ways & Means at 4:00 PM.
upper
Feb 11, 2025
Committee
Referred to Ways & Means.
upper
Feb 7, 2025
Committee
And refer to Ways & Means.
upper
Feb 7, 2025
Upper · Passed
Executive action taken in the Senate Committee on Housing at 10:30 AM.
upper
Jan 29, 2025
Upper · Passed
Public hearing in the Senate Committee on Housing at 10:30 AM.
upper
1 primary · 8 co-sponsors
Sponsors
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