Bill Summary

Landlord tenant settlement conference program. Provides, for a two year period and contingent upon the availability of specified funds, that: (1) the jurisdictional amount in small claims court is $20,000 in residential landlord tenant cases (under current law, the amount is $8,000); and (2) the landlord and the tenant may agree to participate in the landlord tenant settlement conference program.

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Status

Votes

Date Action Vote Document
2021-02-17Senate - Committee VoteYea: 10 No: 0 Other: 1Document
2021-02-22Senate - Amendment #3 (Taylor G) failedYea: 22 No: 26 Other: 1Document

Amendments

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Bill History

Date Action
2021-02-22Amendment #3 (Taylor G) failed; Roll Call 142: yeas 22, nays 26
2021-02-22Amendment #1 (Freeman) prevailed; voice vote
2021-02-22Amendment #2 (Tallian) failed; Division of the Senate: yeas 11, nays 35
2021-02-22Second reading: amended, ordered engrossed
2021-02-18Committee report: amend do pass, adopted
2021-02-11Senator Bohacek added as third author
2021-02-11Senator Brown L added as second author
2021-02-01Senator Tallian added as author
2021-02-01Senator Taylor G removed as author
2021-02-01Committee report: amend do pass adopted; reassigned to Committee on Judiciary
2021-01-04First reading: referred to Committee on Rules and Legislative Procedure
2021-01-04Authored by Senator Taylor G

Sponsors

Name District
Karen TallianSD-004
Elizabeth BrownSD-015
Mike BohacekSD-008