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Housing committee advances renter-protection bill and mobile-dwelling measure in executive session
Summary
In executive session the Senate Housing Committee voted to give SB 5313 (tenant protections in rental agreements) a due-pass recommendation to Rules, and advanced a substitute for the mobile-dwelling-unit bill (SB 5332) with an amendment adding tiny houses on wheels; a proposed restriction on common-interest communities failed.
In executive session Jan. 31 the Senate Housing Committee took formal action on two bills previously heard in public: SB 5313, which prohibits certain provisions in residential rental agreements, and the mobile‑dwelling‑unit bill (Senate Bill 5332 and its proposed substitute), which would require cities and counties planning under the Growth Management Act to allow at least one mobile dwelling unit per residential lot if certain conditions are met.
SB 5313: Vice Chair Alvarado moved that the committee recommend SB 5313 receive a "due pass" and be sent to the Rules Committee. The motion carried by voice vote. Committee staff summarized SB 5313 as adding a prohibition to rental…
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