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Senate advances receivership authority for persistently unsafe rental properties after amendment battles
Summary
Senate Bill 20—authorizing receiverships for multifamily properties with repeated warranty-of-habitability violations—passed after floor amendments and close debate on who should be able to trigger receivership and what safeguards owners should have. Sponsors said receivership is a last resort for serial "slumlord" patterns; opponents raised pr
The Senate passed legislation creating a receivership tool for multifamily residential properties where a pattern of warranty-of-habitability violations persists and local governments or the Attorney General seek court intervention.
Sponsor Senator Cyndi Gonzales said the receivership mechanism is narrowly targeted to address “egregious” and serial failures by property owners when other remedies have failed. On the floor Gonzales said the mechanism was meant for a limited set of extreme cases and…
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