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Committee lays over bill to limit eviction after government‑funded accessibility renovations; debate centers on how to define 'reasonable' (HF1854)
Summary
House File 18 54, advanced by Representative Fisher on March 18, would restrict nonrenewal evictions for tenants who occupy units that received government-funded accessibility or capital improvements; the committee adopted an amendment and laid the bill over while members work on definitions such as what constitutes a 'reasonable' improvement life.
The House Finance and Policy Committee on March 18 took testimony and adopted an amendment to House File 18 54, a bill authored by Representative Fisher that would restrict nonrenewal evictions for tenants who live in units where public funds were used for accessibility or capital improvements.
Representative Fisher described the bill as a response to constituent cases in which tenants — including people using disability waivers — invested in or received government‑funded modifications that enabled independence, only to be asked to leave after ownership changed. Fisher said one household had made "well over $80,000 of improvements" in a single unit of a four‑plex and that the property sold after renovations for $594,000, up from $400,000 in 2017.
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