TAKE ACTION! Say “NO!” to SB900 and New Emergency Assessments on HOA Owners!
PLEASE TAKE ACTION!
Sacramento lawmakers on the Senate Housing Committee will vote TUESDAY APRIL 2 on SB900/Umberg that will let boards pass NEW emergency assessments on owners to fix ALL utility lines when a break occurs in a common area – whether or not it’s the UTILITY’S job to fix the lines.
FIRST THING MONDAY MORNING PHONE
Senator Nancy Skinner, chair of the Senate Housing Committee and say NO! to SB900/Umberg.
DON’T EMAIL HER BUT PHONE INSTEAD – here’s her Sacramento phone number. 916.651.4009. Also call the author of the bill Senator Tom Umberg: 916.651.4034 and insist on “NO” to this bill.
WHEN YOU PHONE: You can say something like “I live in an association in (X) County and can’t afford the emergency assessments that SB900 would create. PLEASE VOTE AGAINST SB900/Umberg.”
State law on emergency assessments is clear that they
- have NO DOLLAR CAP and
- require NO VOTE by owners. SB900 creates a new reason for boards to levy an emergency assessment.
The 200 owners in Orange County learned the hard way about this new kind of assessment. They were forced to hand over $4800 apiece as an emergency assessment to pay a $1 million dollar bill to repair gas lines delivering gas to their condos. The $4800 was on top of the regular assessments they were paying while they were without gas service.
The gas company apparently balked and said it “wasn’t their job” to maintain their own gas lines – so homeowners got stuck with the $1 million dollar bill. SB900 applies to broken delivery lines of ALL utilities.
SB900/Umberg changes the law to give HOAs permanent power to levy a new kind of emergency assessment: one based on “health.” The legislation doesn’t say HOW it is determined that a “health” risk exists or WHO makes the “health” decision (county health department?) or WHAT the “health” risks might be.
We have posted the fact sheet on SB900 on the CCHAL website here: https://calhomelaw.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/SB-900-Fact-Sheet.pdf
More background on the Orange County case and the bill is posted on the CCHAL Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/CCHALfcbk/
Again: here’s the legislation:
https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB900
PROTECT YOUR HOME:
- PHONE NANCY SKINNER (916.651.4009) and
- TOM UMBERG (916.6561.4034) AND SAY
- “NO!” TO EMERGENCY “Health” assessments.
Please email CCHAL at [email protected] to let us know that you phoned and
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