HB 4120 Restricts smoking in multifamily housing units

HB 4120 – This Act lets landlords restrict smoking in apartments. Allows residential landlords of multifamily housing to convert premises to nonsmoking for existing tenants upon 90 days’ written notice. Applies to new and existing rental agreements. Smoking is harmful to everyone’s health, as well as secondhand smoke. Smoke seeps into a room’s walls, carpeting, ceiling, flooring and other surfaces…

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SB 973 Requires a landlord of publicly supported housing to give 30 months’ notice of rent increase.

03/03/2025 VOTE: YES – Passed, Signed into Law; Gov Kotek, 5-22-25  Status (overview) of bill: https://olis.oregonlegislature.gov/liz/2025R1/Measures/Overview/SB973 Committee assigned to bill: https://olis.oregonlegislature.gov/liz/2025R1/Committees/SHDEV/Overview Requires a landlord of publicly supported housing to provide all applicants and new tenants notice of when the affordability restrictions may be terminated. Becomes operative January 1, 2026. Extends from 20 months to 30 months the minimum notice landlords must give…

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