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89th General Assembly · Funnel one-pager · Monday, November 9, 2026

HF 2562: Relating to property law, including mobile homes and manufactured housing, rental agreements, landlord and tenant remedies for retaliation, wrongful failure to provide essential services, rent increases, the sale of manufactured home community or mobile home park, regulation by counties and cities of continuing nonconforming uses of manufactured, modular, and mobile homes, forcible entry and detainer actions, abandoned mobile homes, and including effective date and applicability provisions

Signed into law

What it does

This bill relates to property law, including mobile homes and manufactured housing, rental agreements, landlord and tenant remedies for retaliation, wrongful failure to provide essential services, rent increases, the sale of manufactured home community or mobile home park, the repeal of the manufactured home community and mobile home tax, forcible entry and detainer actions, and abandoned mobile homes. DIVISION I —— RETALIATION. The bill provides that a landlord cannot retaliate against a tenant for exercising the rights and remedies under Code chapter 216 (civil rights commission).

Sponsors

Ways and Means (successor To Hf 833) (successor To Hf 442) committee

Cost

See the fiscal note

The Bill has no identifiable fiscal impact on State or local government. Source Legislative Services Agency /s/ Holly M. Lyons April 7, 2022 Doc ID 1289534 The fiscal note for this Bill was prepared pursuant to Joint Rule 17 and the Iowa Code. Data used in dev…

Lobbying · 8 for, 6 against

For: Common Good Iowa; Greater Iowa Apartment Association; Iowa Catholic Conference; Iowa Coalition Against Domestic Violence; Iowa Hunger Coalition; Iowa Manufactured Housing Association; Iowa State Bar Association; Landlords of Iowa

Against: Iowa Apartment Association (dba IaRPOA); Iowa Attorney General Dept. of Justice; Iowa Federation of Labor, AFL-CIO; Iowa Landlord Association; Iowa Manufactured Housing Association; Iowa Real Estate Investors Association

In plain words

  1. March 16, 2022Filed in the House
  2. March 21, 2022Cost estimate (fiscal note) posted
  3. April 5, 2022Passed the House, 60–37
  4. April 6, 2022Arrived in the Senate
  5. April 7, 2022Cost estimate (fiscal note) posted
  6. April 19, 2022Took the place of SF 2379 on the Senate floor (the same legislation)
  7. April 19, 2022Passed the Senate, 32–16
  8. May 17, 2022Sent to the Governor
  9. May 17, 2022Signed into law

From public records at legis.iowa.gov, compiled by Funnel (iowafunnel.com), an independent, nonpartisan site. Current as of Monday, November 9, 2026. https://iowafunnel.com/bills/89/HF2562