California legislation · 2025-2026 Regular Session
California AB2174: Mobilehomes and manufactured housing: registration and titling documentation.
Status: Chaptered, September 20, 2026
What the bill says
An act to amend Section 18100.5 of the Health and Safety Code, relating to housing. housing Mobilehomes and manufactured housing: registration and titling documentation. Existing law, the Manufactured Housing Act of 1980, requires specified persons, including legal owners and junior lienholders of manufactured homes, mobilehomes, or commercial modulars, to execute and deliver prescribed documents to the Department of Housing and Community Development to create, assign, or release security interests and to effect changes to the permanent title record maintained by the department…
From the chaptered text, September 20, 2026:
An act to amend Section 18100.5 of the Health and Safety Code, relating to housing. housing Mobilehomes and manufactured housing: registration and titling documentation. Existing law, the Manufactured Housing Act of 1980, requires specified persons, including legal owners and junior lienholders of manufactured homes, mobilehomes, or commercial modulars, to execute and deliver prescribed documents to the Department of Housing and Community Development to create, assign, or release security interests and to effect changes to the permanent title record maintained by the department. Existing law requires the department, upon receipt of those documents and applicable fees, to amend its records and issue updated certificates or registration documents and provides remedies if a secured party fails to release its interest as required. Existing law authorizes the use of a digital signature in any written communication with a public entity, as defined, in which a signature is required or used. Existing law provides that a digital signature shall have the same force and effect as the use of a manual signature only if it embodies certain attributes, including, among other things, that it is under the sole control of the person using it. This bill would require the department, on or before January 1, 2028, to accept a verified signature executed electronically on a document submitted to release or satisfy a security interest …