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SB395: relative to minimum housing standards for tenants with health or respiratory issues.

Citation
2016 SB395
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Senate status
Interim Study
Committee
SENATE Commerce
Hearing
01/28/2016 at 09:00 AM
Selected version
Current official bill text

Sponsors

Topics

Commerce Health care Housing and property

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SB 395 - AS INTRODUCED

2016 SESSION

16-2744

05/01

SENATE BILL 395

AN ACT relative to minimum housing standards for tenants with health or respiratory issues.

SPONSORS: Sen. Forrester, Dist 2; Rep. Gallagher, Belk. 4; Rep. Fields, Belk. 4; Rep. Ford, Graf. 3

COMMITTEE: Commerce

ANALYSIS

This bill requires landlords to keep units cool for tenants with respiratory or other health related issues requiring air conditioning.

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Explanation: Matter added to current law appears in bold italics.

Matter removed from current law appears [in brackets and struckthrough.]

Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.

16-2744

05/01

STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE

In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Sixteen

AN ACT relative to minimum housing standards for tenants with health or respiratory issues.

Be it Enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court convened:

1 New Paragraph; Minimum Housing Standards; Tenant with Health or Respiratory Issues. Amend RSA 48-A:14 by inserting after paragraph XI the following new paragraph:

XII. The premises does not have a cooling unit that is properly installed, safely maintained, and in good working condition, or not capable of safely and adequately cooling all habitable rooms, for tenants with respiratory or other health-related issues requiring an air conditioner. Pursuant to this paragraph, a tenant may request, notwithstanding any policy or practice to the contrary, that the landlord leave the air conditioner in the tenant's apartment or unit.

2 Effective Date. This act shall take effect January 1, 2017.