Title: Prohibits Regulating Relationship between Renters and Landlords
Title: Prohibits Regulating Relationship between Renters and Landlords
Vote to adopt a conference report that prohibits local governments from regulating the relationship between renters and landlords.
Authorizes the state department to do all of the following (Sec. 2):
Require reasonable standards of health, sanitation, and safety in using the dwelling units;
Requires the following to comply with the standards:
Persons dwelling in mobile homes, manufactured homes, and industrialized residential structures; and
Mobile home community operators; and
Authorize local boards to enforce the standards adopted.
Prohibits a unit from regulating, through an ordinance or otherwise, any of the following aspects of a landlord-tenant relationship with respect to privately owned property located in the unit unless the regulation is authorized by an act of the general assembly (Sec. 17):
The screening process used by the landlord in approving tenants to lease privately owned property;
Security deposits;
Lease applications;
Leasing terms and conditions;
Disclosures concealing the following involved in the landlord-tenant relationship:
Property;
Lease; or
Rights and responsibilities of the parties;
The rights of the parties to a lease;
Any fees charged by a landlord; and
Any other aspects f the landlord-tenant relationship.
Specifies that any ordinance or regulation that violates the above requirements is void and unenforceable (Sec. 17).
Prohibits a landlord from engaging in a retaliatory act in response to a tenant’s engaging in one or more protected activity (Sec. 18).
Specifies that the above highlight does not prohibit a landlord from doing any of the following (Sec. 18):
Declining to renew a rental agreement at the conclusion of the term of the rental agreement;
Increasing a tenant’s rent to that which is charged for comparable market rentals, regardless of whether the increase is effective:
At the concussion of the term of the rental agreement; or
If provided for in the rental agreement, during the term of the rental agreement; and
Decreasing or terminating one or more services provided to the rental premises, if those services are decreased or terminated to all tenants on an equal basis.
Defines a “retaliatory act” as any of the following actions taken by a landlord in response to a tenant’s engaging in a protected activity (Sec. 18):
Increasing the amount of the tenant’s rent;
Decreasing, terminating, or interfering with services provided to the rental premises;
Bringing or threatening to bring an action for poses of the rental premises;
Bringing or threatening to bring an action for possession of the rental premises; and
Bringing or threatening to bring an action to:
Evict the tenant from the rental premises; or
Otherwise terminate the tenant’s rental agreement before the expiration of the term of the rental agreement.
Defines a “protected activity” as any of the following actions taken by a tenant (Sec. 18):
Complaining to a government entity responsible for enforcing an applicable building or housing code about a violation with respect to a rental premise that materially affects health or safety;
Complaining to a landlord in writing concerning the landlord’s violation;
Bringing an action against a landlord;
Organizing or becoming a member of a tenant’s organization; and
Testifying in a court proceeding or an administrative hearing against a landlord.
Title: Prohibits Regulating Relationship between Renters and Landlords
Vote to adopt a conference report that prohibits local governments from regulating the relationship between renters and landlords.
Authorizes the state department to do all of the following (Sec. 2):
Require reasonable standards of health, sanitation, and safety in using the dwelling units;
Requires the following to comply with the standards:
Persons dwelling in mobile homes, manufactured homes, and industrialized residential structures; and
Mobile home community operators; and
Authorize local boards to enforce the standards adopted.
Prohibits a unit from regulating, through an ordinance or otherwise, any of the following aspects of a landlord-tenant relationship with respect to privately owned property located in the unit unless the regulation is authorized by an act of the general assembly (Sec. 17):
The screening process used by the landlord in approving tenants to lease privately owned property;
Security deposits;
Lease applications;
Leasing terms and conditions;
Disclosures concealing the following involved in the landlord-tenant relationship:
Property;
Lease; or
Rights and responsibilities of the parties;
The rights of the parties to a lease;
Any fees charged by a landlord; and
Any other aspects f the landlord-tenant relationship.
Specifies that any ordinance or regulation that violates the above requirements is void and unenforceable (Sec. 17).
Prohibits a landlord from engaging in a retaliatory act in response to a tenant’s engaging in one or more protected activity (Sec. 18).
Specifies that the above highlight does not prohibit a landlord from doing any of the following (Sec. 18):
Declining to renew a rental agreement at the conclusion of the term of the rental agreement;
Increasing a tenant’s rent to that which is charged for comparable market rentals, regardless of whether the increase is effective:
At the concussion of the term of the rental agreement; or
If provided for in the rental agreement, during the term of the rental agreement; and
Decreasing or terminating one or more services provided to the rental premises, if those services are decreased or terminated to all tenants on an equal basis.
Defines a “retaliatory act” as any of the following actions taken by a landlord in response to a tenant’s engaging in a protected activity (Sec. 18):
Increasing the amount of the tenant’s rent;
Decreasing, terminating, or interfering with services provided to the rental premises;
Bringing or threatening to bring an action for poses of the rental premises;
Bringing or threatening to bring an action for possession of the rental premises; and
Bringing or threatening to bring an action to:
Evict the tenant from the rental premises; or
Otherwise terminate the tenant’s rental agreement before the expiration of the term of the rental agreement.
Defines a “protected activity” as any of the following actions taken by a tenant (Sec. 18):
Complaining to a government entity responsible for enforcing an applicable building or housing code about a violation with respect to a rental premise that materially affects health or safety;
Complaining to a landlord in writing concerning the landlord’s violation;
Bringing an action against a landlord;
Organizing or becoming a member of a tenant’s organization; and
Testifying in a court proceeding or an administrative hearing against a landlord.
Title: Prohibits Regulating Relationship between Renters and Landlords
Title: Prohibits Regulating Relationship between Renters and Landlords
Title: Prohibits Regulating Relationship between Renters and Landlords
Title: Prohibits Regulating Relationship between Renters and Landlords