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House Journal: Page 1734: Thursday, April 20, 1995

Read first time and referred to committee on ways and means.
SENATE AMENDMENT CONSIDERED
Vande Hoef of Osceola called up for consideration House File
492, a bill for an act relating to landlord remedies for tenant
noncompliance with a rental agreement and acts constituting a
clear and present danger, amended by the Senate, and moved that
the House concur in the following Senate amendment H-3981:
H-3981
 1     Amend House File 492, as amended, passed, and
 2   reprinted by the House, as follows:
 3     1.  Page 1, by inserting after line 8 the
 4   following:
 5     "Sec. ___.  Section 562A.5, Code 1995, is amended
 6   by adding the following new subsection:
 7     NEW SUBSECTION.  8.  Occupancy in housing owned by
 8   a nonprofit organization whose purpose is to provide
 9   transitional housing for persons released from drug or
10   alcohol treatment facilities and in housing for
11   homeless persons.
12     Sec. ___.  Section 562A.6, Code 1995, is amended by
13   adding the following new subsection:
14     NEW SUBSECTION.  15.  "Transitional housing" means
15   temporary or nonpermanent housing.
16     Sec. ___.  Section 562A.21, subsection 1,
17   unnumbered paragraph 1, Code 1995, is amended to read
18   as follows:
19     Except as provided in this chapter, if there is a
20   material noncompliance by the landlord with the rental
21   agreement or a noncompliance with section 562A.15
22   materially affecting health and safety, the tenant may
23   elect to commence an action under this section and
24   shall deliver a written notice to the landlord
25   specifying the acts and omissions constituting the
26   breach and that the rental agreement will terminate
27   upon a date not less than thirty seven days after
28   receipt of the notice if the breach is not remedied in
29   fourteen seven days, and the rental agreement shall
30   terminate and the tenant shall surrender as provided
31   in the notice subject to the following:
32     Sec. ___.  Section 562A.21, subsection 1, paragraph
33   b, Code 1995, is amended to read as follows:
34     b.  If substantially the same act or omission which
35   constituted a prior noncompliance of which notice was
36   given recurs within six months, the tenant may
37   terminate the rental agreement upon at least fourteen
38   seven days' written notice specifying the breach and
39   the date of termination of the rental agreement unless
40   the landlord has exercised due diligence and effort to
41   remedy the breach which gave rise to the

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