Alaska bill giving mobile home residents first crack at buying their park died without a hearing
Alaska bill giving mobile home residents first crack at buying their park died without a hearing
2026-09-04 · Alaska · Legislation · Did not pass
A bill that would have given Alaska mobile home park residents the right to match an offer on the land under their homes, and capped lot rent increases at 5% a year, died in the 34th Legislature without ever being heard.
HB 230 was introduced by Representative Andrew Gray of Anchorage on May 18, 2025 and referred to House Labor and Commerce, then House Finance. The bill's history records first reading and referral — and nothing else. No hearing was ever held in either committee. It died when the Legislature adjourned sine die on May 20, 2026.1
What it would have done
The bill would have added a new article to Alaska's Manufactured Home Property Act at AS ch. 34.85, with three operative parts.2
A notice obligation. Before accepting an offer to sell, lease or transfer a park, the owner would have had to give 90 days' advance notice to every resident, to the Alaska Housing Finance Corporation, and to the local building inspector.
A purchase opportunity. A “resident homeowner group” — backed by the owners of more than 50% of the occupied homes — could submit a matching purchase agreement. The park owner would have owed a duty of good-faith negotiation and equal access to information.
A rent cap. Lot and space rent increases would have been limited to 5% per year.
Non-compliance carried damages of $100,000 or 20% of the sale price, whichever is greater, and violations of both the notice and cap provisions would have become unfair trade practices under AS 45.50.471, opening the door to the remedies that statute carries.
Roughly two dozen states have some version of a manufactured-home purchase-opportunity law. Alaska does not, and after HB 230 it still does not.
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Related Alaska HOA Topics
- HB 230, 34th Alaska State Legislature — bill detail and history (introduced May 18, 2025; no hearing recorded; died at sine die) ↩
- HB 230 version A, full text — proposed AS 34.85.200–.290 and AS 34.85.300, Alaska State Legislature ↩
- Michelle Theriault Boots and Marc Lester, "In an Anchorage mobile home park slated for demolition, residents are pushing back," Anchorage Daily News, April 24, 2026 ↩
- Casey Grove, "Anchorage mobile home park residents to be displaced by townhouse development," Alaska Public Media, April 30, 2026 ↩
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