[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 149 (Friday, September 22, 1995)]
[Senate]
[Pages S14131-S14132]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                        PETITIONS AND MEMORIALS

  The following petitions and memorials were laid before the Senate and 
were referred or ordered to lie on the table as indicated:

       POM-301. A resolution adopted by the Council of the City of 
     North Wildwood, New Jersey relative to the Flood Rate Map; to 
     the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs.
       POM-302. A joint resolution adopted by the Legislature of 
     the State of California; to the Committee on Banking, 
     Housing, and Urban Affairs.

                    ``Senate Joint Resolution No. 12

       ``Whereas, section 8 housing assistance is made available 
     from the United States Department of Housing and Urban 
     Development (HUD) through California local government housing 
     agencies to assist in rental payments for persons of lower 
     income; and
       ``Whereas, section 8 housing assistance has heretofore been 
     made available to assist lower income families and 
     individuals, including senior citizens and the disabled, in 
     helping them pay part of manufactured home and mobilehome 
     park space rent; and
       ``Whereas, HUD has proposed rule changes to the Section 8 
     housing assistance payments program for fiscal year 1995 for 
     manufactured home spaces to be established at 30 percent of 
     the applicable Section 8 Rental Certificate program two-
     bedroom fair market rent; and
       ``Whereas, the proposed HUD rule changes would establish a 
     formula that would permit space rent in many counties to be 
     not more than $207 in order for lower income persons to be 
     eligible for the Section 8 assistance; and
       ``Whereas, in San Diego County alone, the current average 
     mobilehome space rent of mobilehome applicants awaiting 
     Section 8 assistance is more than $325; and
       ``Whereas, under the proposed rule changes many lower 
     income senior citizens, families, and disabled persons living 
     in mobilehome parks in a number of California counties will 
     no longer qualify for assistance: Now, therefore, be it
       ``Resolved by the Senate and Assembly of the State of 
     California, jointly, That the Legislature of the State of 
     California respectfully 

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     memorializes the President and the Congress of the United States to 
     support modification of the proposed rule changes to the 
     proposed Section 8 formula relating to manufactured home and 
     mobilehome space rent, or to enact urgency legislation to 
     clarify that persons receiving Section 8 assistance for 
     manufactured home and mobilehome space rent be treated no 
     differently under the HUD rules than recipients of Section 8 
     assistance living in other types of rental housing, or to at 
     least provide a more realistic formula in recognition of 
     higher manufactured housing space rents in more populous 
     California counties; and be it further
       ``Resolved, That the Secretary of the Senate transmit 
     copies of this resolution to the President and Vice President 
     of the United States, to the Speaker of the House of 
     Representatives, and to each Senator and Representative from 
     California in the Congress of the United States, and to the 
     Secretary of Housing and Urban Development.''
                                                                    ____

       POM-303. A joint resolution adopted by the Legislature of 
     the State of California; to the Committee on Banking, 
     Housing, and Urban Affairs.

                   ``Assembly Joint Resolution No. 7

       ``Whereas, manufactured homes constructed pursuant to the 
     National Manufactured Housing Construction and Safety 
     Standards Act provide an important source of nonsubsidized 
     affordable housing to Californians; and
       ``Whereas, the State of California is a national leader in 
     efforts to encourage and expand the use of manufactured 
     housing by eliminating unnecessary regulatory barriers and by 
     developing and encouraging innovative land use and financing 
     policies; and
       ``Whereas, the State of California has deemed manufactured 
     homes a permitted use in all residential zoning districts, 
     subject to the same development standards applicable to other 
     dwellings in that zoning district; and
       ``Whereas, construction and safety standards for 
     manufactured homes are established in federal law and 
     regulation and all such standards preempt local and state 
     codes; and
       ``Whereas, the federal Manufactured Home Construction and 
     Safety Standards have been determined by the State of 
     California to meet or exceed performance standards 
     established for other dwellings; and
       ``Whereas, Federal law requires every federally certified 
     manufactured home to be constructed on a chassis which must 
     remain a permanent feature of the home's substructure; and
       ``Whereas, the chassis is not necessary for the home's 
     structural integrity if the home is sited on a permanent 
     foundation and the home's floor system is designed to 
     accommodate appropriate design loads; and
       ``Whereas, this mandatory feature represents an unnecessary 
     regulatory barrier to greater design flexibility for 
     manufactured homes; and
       ``Whereas, this regulatory barrier prevents innovative uses 
     of manufactured homes to meet the demand for affordable 
     housing in California; and
       ``Whereas, this regulatory barrier prevents manufactured 
     home producers from developing a recycling program for 
     chassis systems which could save consumers between $1,000 and 
     $2,000 per home; now, therefore, be it
       ``Resolved by the Assembly and Senate of the State of 
     California, jointly, That the Legislature of the State of 
     California respectfully memorializes the President and the 
     Congress of the United States to amend the definition of 
     ``manufactured home'' in federal law to allow such homes to 
     be designed to accommodate a removable chassis, so long as 
     the home is intended to be permanently sited on a foundation 
     and so long as the floor system is designed to accommodate 
     appropriate design loads; and be it further
       ``Resolved, That the Chief Clerk of the Assembly transmit 
     copies of this resolution to the President and Vice President 
     of the United States, to the Speaker of the House of 
     Representatives, to each Senator and Representative from 
     California in the Congress of the United States, and to each 
     member of the House Committee on Banking, Housing, and 
     Financial Services, the Senate Committee on Banking and Urban 
     Affairs, and the House and Senate appropriations 
     subcommittees on HUD/VA and independent agencies.''
                                                                    ____

       POM-304. A resolution adopted by the Senate of the 
     Legislature of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts; to the 
     Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs.

                           Senate Resolution

       ``Whereas, the Commonwealth of Massachusetts has produced 
     the paper from which United States currency, including the 
     one dollar bill, is made from over one hundred years and 
     takes great pride in this product; and
       ``Whereas, the elimination of the one dollar bill would 
     have a severe negative impact on the local economies of the 
     western region of the Commonwealth, including job cutbacks 
     and the state's economy in general; and
       ``Whereas, the economies of the western region have 
     suffered greatly in past years due to manufacturing job 
     reductions and attendant economic impacts; and
       ``Whereas, the benefits, so-called, claimed by proponents 
     of the dollar coin are highly suspect and would come at the 
     overall expense of the people of the Commonwealth; and
       ``Whereas, the paper for which currency is made is produced 
     from renewable resources and recycled industrial products, 
     while the metals to produce coins are obtained from 
     environmentally damaging hardrock mining; and
       ``Whereas, the prices of coin operated machines will likely 
     rise with the replacement of the dollar bill with a dollar 
     coin, thereby negatively impacting those least able to afford 
     such price increases; and
       ``Whereas, the overwhelming majority of Americans have 
     consistently opposed replacing the dollar bill with the 
     dollar coin; Now therefore be it
       ``Resolved, That the Commonwealth of Massachusetts is 
     opposed to the replacement of the one dollar bill by a one 
     dollar coin as contrary to its economic, historical, social 
     and environmental interest and traditions; and be it further
       ``Resolved, That a copy of these resolutions be transmitted 
     forthwith by the clerk of the Senate to the Members of the 
     Congress from the Commonwealth.''

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