Improving housing stability for tenants subject to the residential landlord-tenant act and the manufactured/mobile home landlord-tenant act by limiting rent and fee increases, requiring notice of rent and fee increases, limiting fees and deposits, establishing a landlord resource center and associated services, authorizing tenant lease termination, creating parity between lease types, and providing for attorney general enforcement.
Last action: 2026-01-12 — By resolution, reintroduced and retained in present status.
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Official Description
Improving housing stability for tenants subject to the residential landlord-tenant act and the manufactured/mobile home landlord-tenant act by limiting rent and fee increases, requiring notice of rent and fee increases, limiting fees and deposits, establishing a landlord resource center and associated services, authorizing tenant lease termination, creating parity between lease types, and providing for attorney general enforcement.
Bill Details
- Bill Number
- SB 5222
- Current Status
- Introduced
- Sponsors
- Yasmin Trudeau, Mike Chapman, Jessica Bateman, Steven Conway, Noel Frame, Robert Hasegawa, Liz Lovelett, T'wina Nobles, Tina Orwall, Jamie Pedersen, Marcus Riccelli, June Robinson, Rebecca Saldana, Vandana Slatter, Derek Stanford, Javier Valdez, Claire Wilson
- Introduced
- 2025-01-10
- Chamber
- Senate
- Current Committee
- Ways & Means
Bill History
- 2025-01-10 Prefiled for introduction.
- 2025-01-13 First reading, referred to Housing.
- 2025-01-22 Public hearing in the Senate Committee on Housing at 1:30 PM.
- 2025-02-19 Executive action taken in the Senate Committee on Housing at 10:30 AM.
- 2025-02-19 HSG - Majority; 1st substitute bill be substituted, do pass.
- 2025-02-19 And refer to Ways & Means.
- 2025-02-19 Minority; do not pass.
- 2025-02-19 Minority; without recommendation.
- 2025-02-20 Referred to Ways & Means.
- 2026-01-12 By resolution, reintroduced and retained in present status.
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