Relating to landlord-tenant law by creating a tenant hotline and modifying tenant remedies

Where it is now

1. ✓
   Done: IntroducedJanuary 25, 2022
2. ✕
   Stopped: SubcommitteeDied when the General Assembly ended
3. Next: House committee
4. Next: Passes the House
5. Next: Senate committee
6. Next: Passes the Senate
7. Next: To the Governor
8. Next: Signed into law

Died when the session ended The 2022 session adjourned on May 24, 2022, the General Assembly’s last regular session. Bills that didn’t pass both chambers died. What’s a funnel?

What’s in it

This bill relates to landlord-tenant law by creating a tenant information hotline and expanding a tenant remedy. The bill provides that the Iowa finance authority shall create and implement a hotline that provides resources to tenants and renters. The bill expands a tenant remedy to allow tenants to deduct from rent the cost of making repairs when there has been a wrongful failure by the landlord to adhere to city ordinances or repair safety hazards.

From the explanation printed with the bill as introduced, written by the Legislative Services Agency. Amendments adopted later aren’t reflected. Full bill text

Iowa Code it changes

Amends§16.4§562A.23

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