S-3245

   Amend House File 638, as passed by the House, as follows:
   1.  By striking everything after the enacting clause and inserting: 
   <Section 1.  Section 562A.9, subsection 4, Code 2019, is amended to read as follows:
   4.  For rental agreements in which the rent does not exceed seven hundred dollars per month, a rental agreement shall not provide for a late fee that exceeds twelve dollars per day or a total amount of sixty dollars per month. For rental agreements in which the rent is greater than seven hundred dollars per month but less than one thousand four hundred dollars per month, a rental agreement shall not provide for a late fee that exceeds twenty dollars per day or a total amount of one hundred dollars per month.  For rental agreements in which the rent is at least one thousand four hundred dollars per month, a rental agreement shall not provide for a late fee that exceeds two percent of the rent per day or a total amount of ten percent of the rent per month.
   Sec. 2.  Section 562B.10, subsections 4 and 5, Code 2019, are amended to read as follows:
   4.  For rental agreements in which the rent does not exceed seven hundred dollars per month, a rental agreement shall not provide for a late fee that exceeds twelve dollars per day or a total amount of sixty dollars per month. For rental agreements in which the rent is greater than seven hundred dollars per month but less than one thousand four hundred dollars per month, a rental agreement shall not provide for a late fee that exceeds twenty dollars per day or a total amount of one hundred dollars per month.  For rental agreements in which the rent is at least one thousand four hundred dollars per month, a rental agreement shall not provide for a late fee that exceeds two percent of the rent per day or a total amount of ten percent of the rent per month.
   5.  a.  Rental agreements shall be for a term of one year unless otherwise specified in the rental agreement. Rental agreements shall be canceled by at least sixty days’ written notice given by either party.  A notice to cancel under this subsection initiated by a landlord shall be for good cause. A landlord shall not cancel a rental agreement solely for the purpose of making the tenant’s mobile home space available for another mobile home.
   b.  For purposes of this subsection, “good cause” means violation of this chapter by the tenant, a material violation of the manufactured home community or mobile home park rules or regulations, a change in the use of the land on which the mobile home park is located, or material noncompliance with the rental agreement by the tenant.
   Sec. 3.  NEW SECTION.  562B.12A  Increasing rent.
   A landlord shall not increase the rent on any tenant in a mobile home park unless the landlord has provided notice at least one hundred eighty days in advance of the rent increase.
   Sec. 4.  EFFECTIVE DATE.  This Act, being deemed of immediate importance, takes effect upon enactment.>
   2.  Title page, by striking lines 1 through 3 and inserting <An Act providing for remedies, procedures, and requirements applicable to landlords under specified circumstances and including effective date provisions.>

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ANNETTE SWEENEY