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General Assembly Proposed Bill No. 5733
January Session, 2019
LCO No. 85
Referred to Committee on JUDICIARY
Introduced by:
REP. PAVALOCK-D'AMATO, 77th Dist.
AN ACT REQUIRING THE PAYMENT OF DISPUTED RENT
PAYMENTS TO A COURT REGISTRY.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General
Assembly convened:
That section 47a-26b of the general statutes be amended to: (1) 1
Allow a court to make an initial determination as to the amount of 2
disputed rent payments that a tenant is required to make to a court 3
registry, and (2) permit a landlord, upon demonstrating to the court 4
that he or she is in actual danger of loss of the rental premises or 5
suffering other hardship resulting from the loss of rental income, to 6
seek full or partial disbursement of the disputed rent payments paid to 7
the court registry. 8
Statement of Purpose:
To require that disputed rent payments in a landlord-tenant action be
deposited with a court registry and to permit the court to disburse
such payments, in whole or in part, to the landlord when the landlord
demonstrates to the court that a hardship has been created as a result
of the loss of rental income.