Bills · 2023-2024 Regular Session
Relating to: grants to provide legal services to tenants in eviction actions, granting rule-making authority, and making an appropriation. (FE)
Administration department of — Budget and fiscal issues Attorney Landlord and tenant Poor Power of attorney
- Introduced, stopped here
- Passes Assembly, not reached
- Passes Senate, not reached
- Governor signs, not reached
- Law, not reached
Unfamiliar terms? Glossary
What this bill does
Plain-language analysis by the nonpartisan Legislative Reference Bureau
This bill requires the Department of Administration to establish a grant
program to provide funds to attorneys to provide legal services for low-income
tenants in eviction actions or in actions in which the tenant alleges he or she was
wrongfully evicted. Under the bill, the grant moneys may only be used to provide
legal services to a tenant whose family has an income at or below 200 percent of the
federal poverty line.
Sponsors
Introduced by: Baldeh (D) , Bare (D) , C. Anderson (D) , Cabrera (D) , Clancy (D) , Conley (D) , Drake (D) , Emerson (D) , Hong (D) , J. Anderson (D) , Jacobson (D) , Joers (D) , Madison (D) , Moore Omokunde (D) , Ortiz-Velez (D) , Palmeri (D) , Ratcliff (D) , Shelton (D) , Sinicki (D) , Snodgrass (D) , Stubbs (D) , Subeck (D)
7 cosponsors
Agard (D) , Carpenter (D) , Hesselbein (D) , L. Johnson (D) , Roys (D) , Spreitzer (D) , Taylor (D)
Full history
- Nov 27, 2023 · Assembly
Introduced by Representatives J. Anderson, Hong, Moore Omokunde, C. Anderson, Clancy, Jacobson, Joers, Madison, Palmeri, Ratcliff, Baldeh, Bare, Cabrera, Conley, Drake, Emerson, Ortiz-Velez, Shelton, Sinicki, Snodgrass, Stubbs and Subeck; cosponsored by Senators L. Johnson, Roys, Agard, Carpenter, Hesselbein, Spreitzer and Taylor
- Nov 27, 2023 · Assembly
Read first time and referred to Committee on Judiciary
- Apr 15, 2024 · Assembly
Failed to pass pursuant to Senate Joint Resolution 1