Landlord And Tenant
Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to abandoned property. [HB-109]
[Real Estate ]
[Housing ]
[Property Tax ]
Amend KRS 383.020 to specify duties of landlord with respect to abandoned personal property.
Sponsored by: Rep. George Brown
To Local Government (h) on 02/04/2025
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AN ACT relating to tax credits for support provided to victims of domestic violence. [SB-34]
[Taxes ]
[Housing ]
[Crime ]
[Human Services ]
[Budget and Spending ]
[Community Development ]
[Public Safety ]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 141 to establish an income tax credit for qualified contributions made to a domestic violence shelter or rape crisis center in this state; amend KRS 141.019 and 141.039 to disallow the deduction for charitable contributions if the income tax credit is claimed; create new sections of KRS Chapter 141 to establish an income tax credit for a taxpayer that rents a residential unit to a protected tenant and allow an income tax credit for the conversion of condemned property into a domestic violence shelter; amend KRS
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Sponsored by: Sen. David Yates
To Appropriations & Revenue (s) on 02/04/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to property. [HB-18]
[Real Estate ]
[Housing ]
[Property Tax ]
[Community Development ]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 100 to require certain development projects in zones that have traditionally been reserved for single-family homes to be treated as amendments to a zoning map and to meet the procedural requirements for approval set out in KRS Chapter 100; create a new section of KRS Chapter 383 that prohibits property owner's from leasing accessory dwelling units or multi-family housing units in zones that have traditionally been reserved for single-family homes unless the property owner primarily resides on the lot.
Sponsored by: Rep. John Hodgson
Returned To State & Local Government (s) on 03/13/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to termination of residential leases. [HB-58]
[Housing ]
[Healthcare ]
[Mental Health ]
[Real Estate ]
[Consumer Protection ]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 383 to permit a tenant to terminate a lease or rental agreement if he or she is seeking relocation due to a recent mental or physical health emergency; require the tenant to pay any rent due prorated to the effective date of termination; relieve the tenant from liability for any other rent or fees resulting from the termination.
Sponsored by: Rep. George Brown
To Local Government (h) on 02/04/2025
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Virginia 2025 Regular Session
Virginia Residential Landlord and Tenant Act; noncompliance by certain landlords, tenant remedies. [HB-247]
[Housing ]
[Consumer Protection ]
[Law Enforcement ]
Virginia Residential Landlord and Tenant Act; noncompliance by certain landlords; tenant remedies. Allows a tenant to bring a civil cause of action for compensatory damages against a housing authority when there is a material noncompliance by such housing authority with the rental agreement or a noncompliance with any provision of the Virginia Residential Landlord and Tenant Act that materially affects the health and safety of the tenant.
Sponsored by: Rep. Jackie Glass
Left In Courts Of Justice on 11/18/2024
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Virginia 2025 Regular Session
Virginia Residential Landlord and Tenant Act; noncompliance with rental agreement. [SB-596]
[Housing ]
[Real Estate ]
[Law Enforcement ]
[Crime ]
[Public Safety ]
Virginia Residential Landlord and Tenant Act; noncompliance with rental agreement; emergency eviction process. Reduces from 15 to seven the number of days, after the date upon which a tenant is served a landlord's intent to terminate the tenancy due to certain illegal activities by the tenant, within which the initial hearing on the landlord's action for immediate possession of the premises shall be held. The bill also reorganizes certain provisions of the Virginia Residential Landlord and Tenant Act to consolidate language and organize the structure
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Sponsored by: Sen. Adam Ebbin
Left In General Laws And Technology on 11/19/2024
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to the promotion of family well-being and making an appropriation therefor. [HB-734]
[Family-Related Legislation ]
[Healthcare ]
[Housing ]
[Medicare and Medicaid ]
[Budget and Spending ]
[Insurance ]
[Food ]
[Senior Citizens ]
[Education ]
[Human Services ]
[Children and Youth ]
[Funding ]
[Grants ]
[Agriculture ]
[Public Health ]
Create new sections of KRS Chapter 205 to require the eligibility periods for all public assistance programs administered by the Cabinet for Health and Family Services be extended to the maximum period of eligibility permitted under federal law; prohibit the Cabinet for Health and Family Services from relying exclusively on automated, artificial-intelligence based, or algorithmic software in the identification of fraud in programs administered by the cabinet; require Cabinet for Health and Family Services personnel to review relevant documentation
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Sponsored by: Rep. Killian Timoney
To Appropriations & Revenue (h) on 03/05/2024
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to tax incentives for support provided to victims of domestic violence. [SB-214]
[Taxes ]
[Housing ]
[Human Services ]
[Property Tax ]
[Public Safety ]
[Crime ]
[Funding ]
[Grants ]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 141 to establish an income tax credit for qualified contributions made to a domestic violence shelter or rape crisis center in this state; amend KRS 141.019 and 141.039 to disallow the deduction for charitable contributions if the income tax credit is claimed; create new sections of KRS Chapter 141 to establish an income tax credit for a taxpayer that rents a residential unit to a protected tenant; allow an income tax credit for the conversion of condemned property into a domestic violence shelter; amend KRS 141.0205
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Sponsored by: Sen. David Yates
To Appropriations & Revenue (s) on 02/20/2024
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to landlords and tenants. [HB-526]
[Housing ]
[Real Estate ]
[Consumer Protection ]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 383 to establish a civil cause of action for a tenant against a landlord who receives a citation for a violation of a local housing code and does not remedy the violation within 90 days; provide that if the cost of the repair exceeds 12 months' rent, the landlord may refund rent and obtain possession of the property within 30 days; establish procedure for determining cost of repair; specify recoverable damages; establish procedure for maintaining a forcible detainer action during the pendency of the tenant's civil
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Sponsored by: Rep. Daniel Grossberg
Introduced In House on 02/13/2024
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to a tax credit for renters. [HB-413]
[Taxes ]
[Housing ]
[Property Tax ]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 141 to establish a refundable renter tax credit for taxable years beginning on or after January 1, 2025, but before January 1, 2029, in the amount of 25 percent of the qualified rent payments made during the taxable year, not to exceed $1,000; amend KRS 141.0205 to order the tax credit; amend KRS 131.190 to allow reporting by the Department of Revenue.
Sponsored by: Rep. Pamela Stevenson
Introduced In House on 01/30/2024
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to civil rights. [SB-134]
[Race and Civil Rights ]
[Housing ]
[Labor, Jobs, Employment ]
[Insurance ]
[Real Estate ]
[Human Rights ]
Amend KRS 344.010 to include definitions for "sexual orientation" and "gender identity"; amend KRS 344.020, relating to the purpose of the Kentucky's civil rights chapter, to prohibit discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity; amend KRS 344.025, 344.040, 344.050, 344.060, 344.070, and 344.080, relating to prohibited discrimination in various labor and employment practices, to include discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity; amend KRS 344.100 and 344.110 to conform; amend KRS 344.120 and 344.140,
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Sponsored by: Sen. Gerald Neal
To Judiciary (s) on 01/29/2024
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to civil rights. [HB-391]
[Race and Civil Rights ]
[Housing ]
[Real Estate ]
[Insurance ]
[Labor, Jobs, Employment ]
[Human Rights ]
Repeal and reenact KRS 344.010 to define various terms; amend KRS 344.020, relating to the purpose of the Kentucky's civil rights chapter, to prohibit discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity; amend KRS 344.025, 344.040, 344.050, 344.060, 344.070, and 344.080, relating to prohibited discrimination in various labor and employment practices, to include discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity; amend KRS 344.100 and 344.110 to conform; amend KRS 344.120 and 342.140, relating to prohibited discrimination
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Sponsored by: Rep. Derrick Graham
Introduced In House on 01/26/2024
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to housing discrimination. [HB-344]
[Housing ]
[Consumer Protection ]
[Race and Civil Rights ]
Amend KRS 344.010 to define "source of income"; amend KRS 344.360, 344.367, and 344.370 to prohibit housing discrimination based on an individual's source of income.
Sponsored by: Rep. George Brown
Introduced In House on 01/23/2024
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to forcible detainer actions. [SB-122]
[Housing ]
[Real Estate ]
[Law Enforcement ]
[Consumer Protection ]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 383 to allow a landlord to file and practice a forcible detainer action.
Sponsored by: Sen. Rick Girdler
To Judiciary (s) on 01/24/2024
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to local regulatory actions. [HB-337]
[Labor, Jobs, Employment ]
[Firearms/Gun Control ]
[Housing ]
[Law Enforcement ]
[Construction ]
[Public Safety ]
[Crime ]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 82 to define "city," "project labor agreement," and "public construction project"; permit a city to establish a mandatory preference for awarding public construction project contracts to unions through a negotiated project labor agreement; permit cities to negotiate wages that are higher than the state or federal minimum wage as a condition of the project labor agreement; create a new section in KRS Chapter 337 to define "city," "prevailing wage," "prevailing wage rate," and "public works project"; permit a city
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Sponsored by: Rep. Josie Raymond
Introduced In House on 01/22/2024
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to animals. [HB-335]
[Animals ]
[Public Safety ]
[Disabilities ]
[Healthcare ]
[Consumer Protection ]
Amends KRS 258.335 to make unlawful the misrepresentation of a dog as an assistance dog to obtain public accommodation; amends KRS 258.500 to define “person” as a person who has an ongoing therapeutic relationship with a health care provider and to stipulate who can be a health care provider under the definition, to define additional terms, to exclude from therapeutic relationship fee-based transactions for disability documentation absent a face-to-face consultation with a health care provider, to establish requirements for an assistance dog to
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Sponsored by: Rep. Steven Rudy
Signed By Governor (acts Ch. 140) on 04/09/2024
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Virginia 2024 Regular Session
Virginia Consumer Protection Act; fees for electronic fund transfers, prohibited. [HB-1519]
[Consumer Protection ]
[Real Estate ]
[Housing ]
Fees for electronic fund transfers; prohibited. Provides that charging any transaction or processing fee or similar surcharge for the purchase of a good or service through the use of an electronic fund transfer is a prohibited practice under the Virginia Consumer Protection Act. The bill also prohibits landlords subject to the Virginia Residential Landlord and Tenant Act from charging a transaction or processing fee for the payment of a security deposit, rent, or any other amounts payable. Fees for electronic fund transfers; prohibited. Provides
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Sponsored by: Rep. Kathy Tran
Governor: Acts Of Assembly Chapter Text (chap0838) on 04/17/2024
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Virginia 2024 Regular Session
DHCD; translation of certain forms and documents into five non-English languages on website, etc. [HB-1487]
[Housing ]
[Community Development ]
[Consumer Protection ]
[Human Services ]
Department of Housing and Community Development; forms and documents for landlords and tenants; translation into non-English languages. Directs the Department of Housing and Community Development to translate all forms and documents that the Department is mandated by law to create and that are posted on its website for use by residential landlords and tenants into the five non-English languages most commonly spoken in Virginia. The bill allows the Department to accept materials translated by volunteers but requires the Department to verify the accuracy
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Sponsored by: Rep. Marcia Price
Governor: Acts Of Assembly Chapter Text (chap0332) on 04/02/2024
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to local landlord and tenant ordinances. [SB-25]
[Housing ]
[Real Estate ]
[Consumer Protection ]
Create new sections of KRS Chapter 383 to prohibit local governments from adopting or enforcing an ordinance that requires a landlord to participate in a housing program under Section 8 of the United States Housing Act of 1937; prohibit local governments from adopting or enforcing an ordinance relating to landlord and tenant laws that is in conflict with state law.
Sponsored by: Sen. Mike Wilson
Received In House on 01/25/2024
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Virginia 2024 Regular Session
Virginia Residential Landlord and Tenant Act; noncompliance with rental agreement. [SB-596]
[Housing ]
[Real Estate ]
[Law Enforcement ]
[Crime ]
[Public Safety ]
Virginia Residential Landlord and Tenant Act; noncompliance with rental agreement; emergency eviction process. Reduces from 15 to seven the number of days, after the date upon which a tenant is served a landlord's intent to terminate the tenancy due to certain illegal activities by the tenant, within which the initial hearing on the landlord's action for immediate possession of the premises shall be held. The bill also reorganizes certain provisions of the Virginia Residential Landlord and Tenant Act to consolidate language and organize the structure
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Sponsored by: Sen. Adam Ebbin
Continued To 2025 In General Laws And Technology (15-y 0-n) on 02/07/2024