State Seal2 copy            Bill Number: S.B. 1376

            Griffin Floor Amendment

            Reference to: printed bill

            Amendment drafted by: Grant Hanna

 

 

FLOOR AMENDMENT EXPLANATION

 

1.    Conforms holding, storage and disposal requirements for a landlord who retakes possession of a rental unit for noncompliance with a rental agreement with holding, storage and disposal requirements for a landlord who retakes possession of a rental unit for abandonment.

 

2.    Restores the requirement that a landlord must prepare an inventory of a tenant's personal property and notify the tenant of the location of the property and the cost of storage.

 

3.    Restores the right of the tenant to recover possessions or compensation if a landlord disposes of the tenant's possessions before the end of the holding period.

 


 

Fifty-third Legislature                                                   Griffin

Second Regular Session                                                  S.B. 1376

 

GRIFFIN FLOOR AMENDMENT

SENATE AMENDMENTS TO S.B. 1376

(Reference to printed bill)

 


Page 3, line 35, strike "subsection e" insert "subsections d, e, f, g, h and I"

Page 4, line 32, after "shall" insert "prepare an inventory and"; after "location" insert "and cost of storage"

Page 5, line 9, strike "or" insert "and"

Page 6, line 1, strike "cost of" insert "costs associated with"

Line 3, after the period insert "EXCEPT AS PROVIDED IN SUBSECTIONS E OR I of this section FOR PERSONAL PROPERTY EXEMPT FROM STORAGE REQUIREMENTS, within five days after a written offer by the tenant to pay the applicable storage or removal costs the landlord must surrender possession of the personal property in the landlord's possession to the tenant upon the tenant's tender of payment. If the landlord fails to surrender possession of the personal property to the tenant, the tenant may recover the possessions or an amount equal to the damages determined by the court if the landlord has destroyed or disposed of the possessions before the fourteen days specified in this section or after the tenant's offer to pay."

Amend title to conform


 

 

GAIL GRIFFIN

 

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