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Concerning self-storage facilities, including acceptances and defaults of rental agreements
Where it is now
- Done: IntroducedFebruary 18, 2025
- Done: SubcommitteeFebruary 18, 2025
- Done: Senate committeeFebruary 26, 2025
- Skipped: Passes the SenateContinued as SF 471
- Next: House committee
- Next: Passes the House
- Next: To the Governor
- Next: Signed into law
Became SF 471 → Its progress continues under the new number. Go to SF 471 What’s a funnel?
What’s in it
AI summary If you move into a self-storage unit and receive a written rental agreement but do not sign it, you are still considered to have accepted its terms. Storage operators must give you written or emailed notice to move your items if you fall behind on payments or your lease ends. If you use a storage unit as a place to live, you are automatically breaking your agreement.1
Read the official explanation
This bill provides that a person who takes possession of a leased space of a self-storage facility and who receives a written rental agreement from an operator but fails to execute and deliver the written agreement within days is considered to have accepted the terms of the written rental agreement.5(5), to remove personal property from the leased space within days. During the 15-day period, the operator may deny or limit the occupant’s access to the leased space to the hours which the office is open at the self-service storage facility if such right is set forth in the rental agreement. 7. The bill provides that an occupant who uses a leased space for residential purposes is immediately in default and the operator may limit the occupant’s access to the leased space to during office hours at the self-service storage facility and proceed in accordance with the Code chapter.
Changed since by amendments H-1261, S-3089, S-3045; see Amendments.
Senate subcommittee
Named February 18, 2025. On March 3, 2025 it recommended passage.
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