Bill Text: IA HF2048 | 2017-2018 | 87th General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: A bill for an act relating to the payment of utilities and services included in rental agreements for manufactured home communities and mobile home parks.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-01-30 - Subcommittee: Bloomingdale, Fisher and McConkey. H.J. 170. [HF2048 Detail]

Download: Iowa-2017-HF2048-Introduced.html

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House File 2048 - Introduced




                                 HOUSE FILE       
                                 BY  GASKILL

                                      A BILL FOR

  1 An Act relating to the payment of utilities and services
  2    included in rental agreements for manufactured home
  3    communities and mobile home parks.
  4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA:
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  1  1    Section 1.  Section 562B.11, subsection 1, Code 2018, is
  1  2 amended by adding the following new paragraph:
  1  3    NEW PARAGRAPH.  e.  Agrees that the tenant pay the landlord
  1  4 for utilities, electrical services, gas, cable television,
  1  5 internet, water, or sewer or septic, on the basis of the number
  1  6 of bedrooms or square footage of the mobile home.
  1  7                           EXPLANATION
  1  8 The inclusion of this explanation does not constitute agreement with
  1  9 the explanation's substance by the members of the general assembly.
  1 10    Currently, a landlord of a manufactured home community or
  1 11 mobile home park may include in a rental agreement a method of
  1 12 charging a tenant for utilities or services initially charged
  1 13 to the landlord directly, including on the basis of the number
  1 14 of bedrooms within or square footage of the manufactured or
  1 15 mobile home.
  1 16    This bill prohibits a landlord and tenant from agreeing in
  1 17 the rental agreement that the landlord will charge a tenant
  1 18 for utilities or services based on the number of bedrooms in
  1 19 or the square footage of the manufactured or mobile home. If
  1 20 a landlord or tenant knowingly uses a rental agreement that
  1 21 causes the landlord to charge the tenant for utilities or
  1 22 services based on the number of bedrooms or square footage,
  1 23 such provision is unenforceable and the other party may recover
  1 24 actual damages sustained.
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