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Senate approves receivership tool for persistent warranty‑of‑habitability violations
Summary
The Senate passed Senate Bill 20 after adopting committee amendments to allow a court-appointed receiver to repair multi‑family properties with a pattern of habitability violations; the bill includes procedural protections and a preponderance‑of‑the‑evidence threshold for appointment.
Senate Bill 20, aimed at giving courts and local governments a tool to address extreme and persistent warranty-of-habitability violations in multi‑family residential properties, passed the Senate on March 28 after the body adopted committee amendments and debated multiple floor amendments.
Sponsor Senator Gonzales said the bill is narrow and intended to address the most severe and serial cases of landlord neglect that leave tenants living in hazardous conditions and that other existing remedies were insufficient in extreme cases. “This is…
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