HB1683 Summary

• Reduces month-to-month rent increase notice requirement from 45 days to 15 days written notice.

• Modifies landlord access to rental units to require reasonable efforts to obtain tenant consent, while maintaining right to enter for inspections, repairs, and showings with two days' notice except in emergencies.

• Changes security deposit dispute statute of limitations from one year to three months for landlord recovery actions.

• Reduces the period a tenant can be absent without notice before being deemed to have wrongfully quit from 20 days to 5 days.

• Reduces month-to-month tenancy termination notice requirement from 45 days to 28 days and extends holdover possession proceeding period from 60 days to 120 days.