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General Assembly Raised Bill No. 1264
January Session, 2025
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Referred to Committee on HOUSING
Introduced by:
(HSG)
AN ACT REQUIRING A NOTIFICATION OF RIGHTS TO PARTIES
BEFORE A FAIR RENT COMMISSION.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General
Assembly convened:
Section 1. Section 7-148b of the general statutes is repealed and the 1
following is substituted in lieu thereof (Effective July 1, 2025): 2
(a) For purposes of this section and sections 7-148c to 7-148f, 3
inclusive, "seasonal basis" means housing accommodations rented for a 4
period or periods aggregating not more than one hundred twenty days 5
in any one calendar year and "rental charge" includes any fee or charge 6
in addition to rent that is imposed or sought to be imposed upon a 7
tenant by a landlord. 8
(b) Any town, city or borough may, and any town, city or borough 9
with a population of twenty-five thousand or more, as determined by 10
the most recent decennial census, shall, through its legislative body, 11
adopt an ordinance that creates a fair rent commission. 12
(c) Any [such] fair rent commission created pursuant to this section 13
shall make studies and investigations, conduct hearings and receive 14
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complaints relative to rental charges on housing accommodations, 15
except those accommodations rented on a seasonal basis, within its 16
jurisdiction, which term [shall include] includes mobile manufactured 17
homes and mobile manufactured home park lots, in order to control and 18
eliminate excessive rental charges on such accommodations, and to 19
carry out the provisions of sections 7-148b to 7-148f, inclusive, section 20
47a-20 and subsection (b) of section 47a-23c. The commission, for such 21
purposes, may compel the attendance of persons at hearings, issue 22
subpoenas and administer oaths, issue orders and continue, review, 23
amend, terminate or suspend any of its orders and decisions. In any 24
proceeding of the commission, such commission shall notify the parties 25
to such proceeding of their rights and the scope of such commission's 26
lawful authority (1) in writing, and (2) in an announcement at the 27
beginning of each hearing. The commission may be empowered to 28
retain legal counsel to advise it. 29
[(c)] (d) Any town, city or borough required to create a fair rent 30
commission pursuant to subsection (b) of this section shall adopt an 31
ordinance creating such commission on or before July 1, 2023. Not later 32
than thirty days after the adoption of such ordinance, the chief executive 33
officer of such town, city or borough shall (1) notify the Commissioner 34
of Housing that such commission has been created, and (2) transmit a 35
copy of the ordinance adopted by the town, city or borough to the 36
commissioner. 37
[(d)] (e) Any two or more towns, cities or boroughs not subject to the 38
requirements of subsection (b) of this section may, through their 39
legislative bodies, create a joint fair rent commission. 40
This act shall take effect as follows and shall amend the following
sections:
Section 1 July 1, 2025 7-148b
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Statement of Purpose:
To require that a fair rent commission notify parties of their rights and
the scope of such commission's lawful authority.
[Proposed deletions are enclosed in brackets. Proposed additions are indicated by underline, except
that when the entire text of a bill or resolution or a section of a bill or resolution is new, it is not
underlined.]