Committee backs substitute overhauling tenant screening and screening-fee rules
A committee substitute for Senate Bill 267 rewrites several landlord-tenant provisions: it tightens permissible screening fees, removes reusable background‑check language, requires return of fees in specified cases, and moves an unfair-practices clause into the statewide Unfair Practices Act. The committee approved a due-pass motion for the sub.
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The Senate Judiciary Committee considered a comprehensive landlord-tenant package in a committee substitute to Senate Bill 267. Sponsors described changes intended to limit repeat screening charges, remove reusable background‑check provisions and place certain unfair-practices language into the statewide Unfair Practices Act.
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