You never know in this process when the time for a bill has come. Buckley sponsored Assembly Bill 341, which received tentative approval Tuesday and could receive a favorable floor vote today in the Assembly.
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She said the bill does not affect landlords that charge modest increases for lot rentals, but those who try for significant rent increases for senior citizens living on Social Security. Buckley said she has 3,000 mobile home residents in her district. Two years ago Senate Commerce Chairman Randolph Townsend, R-Reno, refused even to hold a hearing on a mobile home rent justification bill approved by the Assembly. He said rent control has never worked. That bill, sponsored by Assemblywoman Genie Ohrenschall, D-Las Vegas, would have let the state Manufactured Housing Division determine if rents were justified.