Revision: Jan. 24, 2023, 11:20 a.m.
SB 203 - AS INTRODUCED
2023 SESSION
23-0867
09/10
SENATE BILL 203
AN ACT relative to the composition and jurisdiction of the manufactured housing board.
SPONSORS: Sen. Avard, Dist 12
COMMITTEE: Executive Departments and Administration
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ANALYSIS
This bill changes the membership of the board of manufactured housing, and increases the board's jurisdiction to matters under RSA 301-A on consumers cooperative associations.
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Explanation: Matter added to current law appears in bold italics.
Matter removed from current law appears [in brackets and struckthrough.]
Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.
23-0867
09/10
STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE
In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Twenty Three
AN ACT relative to the composition and jurisdiction of the manufactured housing board.
Be it Enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court convened:
1 Board Established; Members; Terms; Chairperson. Amend RSA 205-A:25, I through IV to read as follows:
I. There is hereby created a board of manufactured housing consisting of [9] 11 members. The members of the board shall be:
(a) Two public members with experience in housing issues, appointed by the governor.
(b) Two members appointed by the governor, from a list of 3 persons nominated by the New Hampshire Manufactured Housing Association.
(c) [One member appointed by the governor, from a list of 2 persons nominated by the Mobile/Manufactured Homeowner and Tenants Association of New Hampshire.] Two members, who are residents of a resident-owned manufactured housing park appointed by the governor, from a list of 3 persons nominated by the New Hampshire Community Loan Fund.
(d) One member appointed by the governor [who is a resident of a manufactured housing park who is not a member of the Mobile/Manufactured Homeowner and Tenants Association of New Hampshire.] who is a resident of an investor-owned manufactured housing park.
(e) One member of the New Hampshire Bar Association, appointed by the president of such association.
(f) [Two members of the house of representatives, appointed by the speaker of the house.] One member of Housing Action New Hampshire who works with low-income housing in the state of New Hampshire.
(g) Two members of the house of representatives, appointed by the speaker of the house.
II. Except for the legislative members, each person shall serve for a 3-year term and until a successor is appointed and qualified[, provided, however, that the initial appointments shall be as follows: the 2 public members shall be appointed to 3-year terms, the resident of a manufactured housing park shall serve a 2-year term and the members from the housing associations, the tenants association and the bar association shall serve one-year terms]. The legislative members shall serve terms which are coterminous to their terms in the general court.
III. The chairperson shall be chosen from among the members at the initial organizational meeting and shall serve [at the pleasure of the members of the board] no more than 2 consecutive terms of 2 years.
IV. If there is a vacancy on the board, the provisions of RSA 21:33-a and 21:34 shall apply to the public members, as well as to the members appointed pursuant to subparagraphs I(b) through (f).
2 Jurisdiction; Procedure. Amend RSA 205-A:27, I to read as follows:
I. The board shall hear and determine matters involving manufactured housing park rules, specifically RSA 205-A:2, RSA 205-A:7, and RSA 205-A:8, and following the provisions of RSA 301-A:20, RSA 301-A:28-a, and RSA 301-A:35, including a dispute resolution process to resolve conflicts in both investor-owned and resident-owned manufactured housing communities.
3 Jurisdiction; Procedure. Amend RSA 205-A:27, I-b to read as follows:
I-b. If a park owner promulgates a park rule which the board finds unreasonable as applied to the facts of a specific case, [but] and the board affirmatively finds that such rule does not violate any provision of RSA 205-A:2, I-X, no damages, civil penalty, or attorneys fees shall be awarded to the tenant notwithstanding the provisions of RSA 205-A:12, 205-A:12-a, 205-A:13-a, or 358-A.
4 Effective Date. This act shall take effect 60 days after its passage.