SB 5060 - Rental and Vacant Properties Registration
Date postedJanuary 28, 2023
Requiring the registration of rental and vacant housing units.
Bill Information
Sponsors: Kuderer, Trudeau, Dhingra, Frame, Keiser, Nguyen, Nobles, Randall, Robinson, Wellman
Status: Amended Version passed out of (S) Housing, Referred to Ways and Means
What the amended bill does:
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Requires rental property owners in cities with populations of 130,000 or more to register all rental and vacant housing units and report monthly rental rates with the Department of Commerce every two years.
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Requires the Department of Commerce to create and maintain a website that tracks and discloses rental housing inventory and reported rental rate data.
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Imposes a $70 registration fee for the first rental housing unit and a $15 fee for each additional unit.