Bill Text: CA SB1157 | 2019-2020 | Regular Session | Introduced

California Senate Bill 1157 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Bill Title: Tenancy: credit reporting: lower income households.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Passed) 2020-09-28 - Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 204, Statutes of 2020. [SB1157 Detail]

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CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE— 2019–2020 REGULAR SESSION

Senate Bill

No. 1157

Introduced by Senator Bradford

February 20, 2020

An act to add Section 1954.06 to the Civil Code, relating to tenancy.

LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST

SB 1157, as introduced, Bradford. Tenancy: credit reporting: lower income households.

Existing law regulates the terms and conditions of residential tenancies, and requires a landlord to provide a tenant with various notices at the time the lease is executed and throughout the tenancy.

The Consumer Credit Reporting Agencies Act and the federal Fair Credit Reporting Act provide for the regulation of consumer credit reporting agencies that collect credit-related information on consumers and report this information to subscribers and of persons who furnish that information to consumer credit reporting agencies, as provided.

This bill, beginning July 1, 2021, would require specified landlords who own or manage a total of at least 200 residential units occupied by lower income households to offer, at the time of the lease agreement and annually thereafter, certain tenants the option of having their rental payments reported to at least one nationwide consumer reporting agency at no cost to the tenants.

Vote: MAJORITY Appropriation: NO Fiscal Committee: NO Local Program: NO

The people of the State of California do enact as follows:

SECTION 1.

Section 1954.06 is added to the Civil Code, to read:

1954.06.

Beginning July 1, 2021, any landlord of multifamily residential property in the state, who owns or manages a total of at least 200 residential units occupied by lower income households, as defined in Section 50079.5 of the Health and Safety Code, shall offer, at the time of the lease agreement and annually thereafter, the tenant or tenants obligated on the lease of each unit occupied by a lower income household the option of having the tenant’s rental payments reported to at least one nationwide consumer reporting agency that meets the definition in Section 603(p) of the federal Fair Credit Reporting Act (15 U.S.C. Section 1681a(p)) at no cost to the tenant.