Bills › 89th General Assembly
Relating to landlord-tenant law by creating a tenant hotline and modifying tenant remedies
Topics:Housing & property
Where it is now
- Done: IntroducedJanuary 25, 2022
- Stopped: SubcommitteeDied when the General Assembly ended
- Next: House committee
- 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 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
AI summary Iowa will create a new hotline to give renters helpful information and resources. It also allows tenants to take the cost of certain repairs out of their rent if a landlord fails to fix safety hazards or follow city rules.1
Read the official explanation
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.
Iowa Code it changes
Lobbying
2 for · 0 against · 4 undecided · Who →