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Subcommittee removes emergency-protective-order trigger, approves amended bill letting tenants end leases with 28 days' notice
Summary
The House General Laws Committeehousing and consumer protection subcommittee voted 6-2 to report Senate Bill 884 as amended, allowing tenants who obtain certain protective orders to terminate leases with 28 days' notice.
The House General Laws Committeehousing and consumer protection subcommittee voted 6-2 to report Senate Bill 884 as amended, changing the lease-termination notice to 28 days and removing language that would have allowed tenants to terminate leases based solely on an emergency protective order.
Senator Mark Perry, the billpatron, told the subcommittee the measure expands existing protections to allow tenants who obtain a magistrate- or judge-issued emergency, preliminary or permanent protective order, or who have a magistrate finding probable cause or a charging document, to give notice and terminate their lease early in order to escape domestic…
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