Bill > S719

This bill, known as "Robert Taylor's Law," requires landlords of most rental properties, excluding owner-occupied two or three-family homes, to inform their tenants within 30 days if their property receives a citation from a housing code enforcement agency or if the landlord is otherwise notified of conditions that could endanger or significantly harm tenants' health or safety. This notification must be repeated every 30 days as long as the unsafe condition persists. Furthermore, if a property is not in compliance with state or local health or building codes, landlords cannot offer new leases or lease extensions to any tenants without first disclosing the property's non-compliant status, and this disclosure cannot be waived by any means. The bill also mandates that state departments responsible for public safety and public health, in collaboration with the department of housing and community development, will create regulations to put this law into effect, including how it will be integrated into building and sanitary codes and the specific methods for delivering these notices, while clarifying that this law does not remove any other existing tenant or landlord rights.