AB 2174: Mobilehomes and manufactured housing: registration and titling documentation.

Official summary

Legislative Counsel’s Digest (official, as of the latest version). Written by nonpartisan legislative staff; reproduced verbatim.

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 held by a legal owner pursuant to the above-described provisions of the Manufactured Housing Act of 1980 and to treat that signature as having the same force and effect as an original signature. The bill would define “verified signature executed electronically” as a digital signature that embodies all of the above-described attributes required to have the same force and effect as the use of a manual signature. The bill would prohibit the department from requiring submission of a wet signature to release or satisfy a legal owner’s security interest pursuant to the above-described provisions of the Manufactured Housing Act of 1980.

Sponsors

Sponsors by party (alphabetical): Republican 1

“Support” is shown only as formal sponsorship recorded by the legislature. Roll-call votes are available on the official bill page.

Recent official actions

1. September 20, 2026Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 386, Statutes of 2026.
2. September 20, 2026Approved by the Governor.
3. September 3, 2026Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.
4. August 27, 2026In Assembly. Ordered to Engrossing and Enrolling.
5. August 26, 2026Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 39. Noes 0.).
6. August 13, 2026Read second time. Ordered to third reading.
7. August 13, 2026From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 6. Noes 0.) (August 13).
8. August 13, 2026In committee: Reconsideration of a favorable vote granted.
9. August 3, 2026In committee: Referred to APPR. suspense file.
10. July 1, 2026From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 13. Noes 0.) (June 30). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
11. June 25, 2026From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on JUD. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 10. Noes 0.) (June 24). Re-referred to Com. on JUD.
12. May 27, 2026Referred to Coms. on HOUSING and JUD.