HB5432 Summary

• Prohibits counties and municipalities from adopting ordinances that penalize residents, property owners, tenants, or landlords solely for contact with law enforcement agencies.

• Prohibits ordinances requiring landlords to evict or penalize tenants based on their criminal history, alleged unlawful conduct, arrests, or association with people who have had law enforcement contact.

• Prohibits defining tenant contact with law enforcement or requests for emergency assistance as nuisance violations or requiring tenants to obtain certificates of occupancy as a condition of tenancy.

• Prohibits establishing or maintaining tenant registries designed to discourage landlords from renting to listed tenants or exclude them from rental housing.

• Limits home rule powers of counties and municipalities to regulate tenancy in ways that conflict with these prohibitions; effective immediately.