Protections for Mobile Home Park Residents

Plain English: This amendment expands the list of people and groups who can receive information about a mobile home park sale to include owner associations with majority approval, while also clarifying what types of financial agreements must be disclosed.

• Allows any group or association representing at least 51% of homeowners in the park to request information if they get that support within 14 days of asking.

• The amendment text only shows specific line changes and does not include the full original bill, so it is unclear exactly who could receive this information before these changes were made.
• The exact legal definition of 'assignees' mentioned in the new text cannot be fully explained without seeing more context from the rest of the law.

Plain English: This amendment sets a specific start date for the new mobile home park rules and explains how voters can delay them.

• The law will officially begin on January 1, 2027.
• Voters have ninety days after the legislative session ends to file a petition asking for a public vote on this bill.
• If such a petition is filed, the new rules cannot start unless voters approve them in the November 2026 election.

• This amendment only changes when and how the law starts; it does not explain what specific protections or financial rules are included in the rest of the bill.
• The text provided is a standard legal clause about effective dates and referendums, so no other details about mobile home park operations can be explained from this section alone.

Plain English: This amendment requires mobile home park landlords to share detailed financial records, infrastructure reports, and buyer information with residents when the park is being sold.

• Landlords must provide a list of documents upon request that explains how they calculated the sale price using data like rent projections or appraisals.
• Owners can ask for details about the age of major systems like water lines, sewers, and electrical equipment, plus records of repairs from the last three years.
• Landlords must share financial reports showing income and expenses for the past three years, including specific bills over $500 and current rent rolls with personal info removed.
• If a sale agreement is signed, landlords must give residents an unredacted copy and disclose any shared managers or investors between themselves and the new buyer.

• The amendment text contains many technical legal references to specific bill sections that are not fully explained in this summary.
• Some changes involve correcting line numbers and section codes which do not directly describe a policy change for residents.

Plain English: This amendment changes how much of a registration fee mobile home park landlords can charge residents and sets rules for adjusting that fee in the future.

• Landlords are allowed to ask residents to pay either the full amount or just part of the annual registration fee.
• A landlord cannot charge a homeowner more than half of the total registration fee cost.
• The law requires that every mobile home's registration fee be put into a specific fund.
• State officials must review the yearly fee and can change it through official rules to match the actual costs of running the program.

• This amendment was voted down (lost) during its second reading, so these changes did not become part of the final bill.
• The text refers to a specific legal definition for 'resident' that is found in another section of law not included here.

Plain English: This amendment updates the legal definition of a mobile home park in Colorado to include parks where the landlord owns all the homes and clarifies that residents are protected under these rules.

• The law now counts land as a 'mobile home park' even if the landlord owns every single mobile home on it, not just when tenants own their homes.
• The definition of who lives in the park is updated to include both people who rent lots and those referred to as residents or third parties paying rent.
• Rules for shared areas like grounds and facilities are changed to protect 'residents' instead of only protecting home owners.

• The amendment text does not explain how the state division will decide what counts as being in the same neighborhood if a park is split into separate pieces.
• Some parts of the original bill title regarding landlord notifications are cut off and cannot be fully explained based on this amendment alone.

Plain English: This amendment would increase a specific dollar amount in the bill from $500 to $5,000.

• The text on page 6 of the bill changes the number 'FIVE HUNDRED' to 'FIVE THOUSAND'.
• This change raises the financial figure mentioned at that location by ten times.

• The amendment does not explain what this money is for, such as a fine or fee.
• Because the full context of page 6 is missing from the provided text, it is unclear exactly which rule uses this amount.

Plain English: This amendment changes a rule about how much of the registration fee mobile home park residents must pay.

• The bill would now say that an amount cannot be more than half of the registration fee set by this specific section.

• This amendment was lost and did not become part of the final law.
• The text does not explain what happens if a resident pays less or more than this limit, only that it sets a maximum threshold based on half the fee.