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Legislators debate H.772 changes to eviction timelines, deposit rules and a rent-credit pilot
Summary
A committee briefing on H.772 proposed changes to Vermont residential rental law would cap deposits, limit rent increases to once per year, speed ejectment hearings for violent or dangerous activity, and launch a pilot to report positive rent payments to credit bureaus.
Representative Mark Mahal and legislative counsel walked the Economic Development, Housing & General Affairs committee through H.772, a bill that would reshape notice, deposit and ejectment procedures for residential tenancies while piloting rent-payment credit reporting.
The bill redefines how landlords must give 'actual notice' of termination, adding methods such as sheriff delivery, email (when also mailed) and door-posting when an address is unknown. Cameron Wood of the Office of Legislative Council said, "actual notice means receipt of written notice," and explained the proposal would extend the existing rebuttable presumption that mailed notices are received from three to five days to account for postal delays.
H.772 would also cap security deposits at an amount equal to two months’ rent (in addition to first-month rent), exclude reasonable pet…
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