HEARING: Thursday, February 22 at 1:30 p.m. – HB 2114
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alive in the 2024 Legislative Session.
Thanks again for your continued opposition to RENT CONTROL.
House Senate Ways & Means Committee Hearing on Thursday, February 22 at 1:30 p.m.
JA Cherberg Building Room 4
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Summary of HB 2114
• Rent increases are limited to a maximum of 5% in a 12-month period.
• No rent increases shall be served in the first 12 months of tenancy.
• Rent increase over 3% would require 180 days’ notice.
• Limits total move in fees to one month’s rent and caps late fees at $10.
• Tenant can break lease any time with 20 days written notice if rent increase is over 3%.
• Ban on offering a discount for fixed term leases v. month-to-month.
• Mandatory damages of three months’ rent and attorney fees/costs and can use as
defense to eviction.
• Exempts not for profit housing and new construction for the first ten years.
• No mechanism to increase by more than 5% in event of factors outside housing
providers control - unconstitutional under current SCOTUS case law.
• Bill has an emergency clause that permits immediate implementation of the bill
requirements.
House Substitute Bill:
• Removes a provision allowing tenants to break their leases any time after receiving a
180-day notice that their landlord intends to raise their rental rate by 3% or more
within a 12-month period.
• Adds a provision that tenants may break their leases, with notice, any time after a
landlord raises their rental rate beyond what is allowed under the bill without falling
under any of its exemptions.
• Raises the percentage cap on how much landlords are allowed to raise rents in any
given 12-month period from 5 to 7 percent.
• Changes the cap on late fees from $10 dollars a month to 1.5 percent of the tenant's
total monthly rent.
• Adds exemptions from the rental rate increase limit for several living situations
where the owner is also a resident of the property in question.
Current Version:
• 7% rent cap
• Late fees capped at 1.5% of monthly rent
• All move-in fees capped at 1 month’s rent
• 180-Day notice requirement for any rent increase over 3%
• 20-day lease termination for rent increases in violation of the 7% cap
• Ban on lower-priced fixed-term lease versus month-to-month
• Extends consumer protection to RLTA
• AG office oversight and enforcement for certain provisions
• Mandatory damages of three month’s rent + attorney fees/costs
• Defense to eviction
Sponsors: Representatives: Alvarado, Macri, Ramel, Peterson, Mena, Slatter, Farivar,
Taylor, Doglio, Cortes, Fitzgibbon
STATUS HB: Senate Ways & Means Committee
Hearing: Thursday, February 22 || 1:30 p.m. || JAC Rm 4
Please note that you must sign in 1 hour before the hearing to testify or provide a position to
be placed on legislative record.
After the hearing, you have 24 hours to submit written testimony,