Bills › 88th General Assembly
Relating to farm tenancies, by providing for notice of termination
Topics:Agriculture
Where it is now
- Done: IntroducedFebruary 19, 2019
- Done: SubcommitteeFebruary 19, 2019
- Stopped: House committeeDied when the General Assembly ended
- Next: Passes the House
- Next: Senate committee
- Next: Passes the Senate
- Next: To the Governor
- Next: Signed into law
Died when the session ended The 2020 session adjourned on June 14, 2020, the General Assembly’s last regular session. Bills that didn’t pass both chambers died. What’s a funnel?
What’s in it
BILL’S PROVISIONS. This bill amends provisions that require a party to a farm tenancy to provide notice of the tenancy’s termination. The bill provides that the notice must be delivered by certified mail, return receipt requested, with the delivery restricted to the intended recipient. A certified mail return receipt is evidence of delivery and the envelope containing the notice must be postmarked. BACKGROUND.1A). Generally, all farm tenancies terminate on March 1, at the end of the farm tenant’s crop year.
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7). Without such timely written notice of the termination, the lease continues under its same terms and conditions until the next September 1. There are currently three alternative methods for providing notice to the intended recipient prior to September 1, including by acceptance of service signed by the recipient, serving notice personally on the recipient or failing that by publication in a newspaper, or by certified mail sent to the last-known mailing address of the recipient. In the last case, there is no requirement that the recipient actually receives the notice.
House subcommittee
Named February 19, 2019. On March 4, 2019 it recommended amendment and passage.
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