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Neighbor update · Wednesday, August 19, 2026

Looking back: AB 1128 died in Sacramento on September 1, 2026. That is why SOS Encinitas now asks the City of Encinitas for a local fairness ordinance. The original email also included a full Spanish version.

The bill was changed on Monday. As it reads right now, it protects one city, and it is not ours.

We are getting this to you the same day we confirmed it. AB 1128, the bill every one of us has been calling about, was amended on the Senate floor on Monday, August 17. Please read the top section, then make one phone call today.

What happened

On Monday afternoon the bill was brought up on the Senate floor, amended, and sent back to be reprinted. On Tuesday it was put back on the calendar for the final Senate vote. We pulled the new text as soon as it posted.

The amendment narrows who the bill covers. The version we have been fighting for applied to mobile home parks across California. The new version applies to parks in the City of Torrance, plus the small group of parks that sit across two or more city lines, which were already covered under existing law.

The amended bill now defines the parks it protects as a park “located in the City of Torrance” or one within the jurisdiction of two or more cities. It adds a finding that “a special statute is necessary” because of “significant and disproportionate increases in mobilehome space rents within the City of Torrance.”

Riviera sits entirely inside Encinitas. Under the bill as amended, we get nothing. Neither does any other park in Encinitas, or in Carlsbad, or in Oceanside, or in almost every park in this state.

What changed and what did not

  • Who it covers. Before: mobile home parks across California. Now: parks in the City of Torrance, plus parks spanning two or more cities.
  • The cap itself. Unchanged: the lower of 3% plus the change in the cost of living, or 5%.
  • Key dates. Unchanged: rents anchored to their January 5, 2026 level, cap operative January 1, 2027, and the law now runs to January 1, 2036.
  • The catch. All of that protection now applies to Torrance. Not to us.

We do not yet know why the amendment was made or who asked for it, and we are not going to guess in writing. What we know is what the text says.

Why today matters more than any day so far

A bill can still be amended on the Senate floor right up until the vote. The people with the power to change the text back are the two legislators who wrote it. The bill is now on third reading, so the final Senate vote can be called any day, and everything has to be finished by August 31.

So the ask is simple and it is urgent: call the authors and ask them to restore statewide coverage before the floor vote.

  • Call first: Assembly Member Al Muratsuchi (lead author), Capitol office, (916) 319-2066.
  • Then call: Assembly Member Sharon Quirk-Silva (co-author), Capitol office, (916) 319-2067.

Say the bill number and say what you want: “AB 1128, restore statewide coverage.” Staff log calls by bill and by position.

What we are doing about it

This is also exactly why we started the local plan. A bill in Sacramento can be rewritten in an afternoon by people who have never seen our park. An Encinitas ordinance cannot.

One thing to keep in perspective

This is a setback, and we are not going to dress it up as anything else. Two weeks ago this park had never made a phone call to Sacramento. Since then this list has grown, neighbors have gone door to door, and other parks are starting to come in. None of that goes away because of one amendment.

— Your Riviera Park neighbors
MHP Action · mhpaction@gmail.com