Bill Text: AZ HB2647 | 2025 | Fifty-seventh Legislature 1st Regular | Introduced
Bill Title: Rental payments; credit reporting
Spectrum: Strong Partisan Bill (Democrat 11-1)
Status: (N/A) - [HB2647 Detail]
Download: Arizona-2025-HB2647-Introduced.html
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REFERENCE TITLE: rental payments; credit reporting |
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State of Arizona House of Representatives Fifty-seventh Legislature First Regular Session 2025
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HB 2647 |
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Introduced by Representatives Liguori: Abeytia, Austin, Biasiucci, Blattman, Connolly, Contreras P, Garcia, Márquez, Peshlakai, Simacek, Volk
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AN ACT
amending title 33, chapter 10, article 1, Arizona Revised Statutes, by adding section 33-1314.02; relating to the Arizona residential landlord and tenant act.
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Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Arizona:
Section 1. Title 33, chapter 10, article 1, Arizona Revised Statutes, is amended by adding section 33-1314.02, to read:
33-1314.02. Reporting rental payments to credit reporting agency; option
A. A landlord shall offer to a tenant the option of having the landlord report the tenant's rental payments to a consumer credit reporting agency. The landlord shall make the offer to the tenant at the beginning of the tenancy and once each year thereafter. The landlord's offer shall be in writing and shall include all of the following:
1. A statement that reporting the tenant's rental payments is optional.
2. The name of the credit reporting agency to which the landlord will report.
3. A statement that if the tenant chooses to have the tenant's rental payments reported, all of the tenant's payments will be reported without regard to whether the payments are timely, late or missed.
4. The amount of any fee charged by the landlord pursuant to subsection C of this section.
5. A statement that the tenant may opt into rental payment reporting at any time following the initial offer by the landlord.
6. A statement that the tenant may elect to stop rental payment reporting at any time, but that the tenant will not be able to resume rental payment reporting for at least six months after the tenant's election to opt out.
7. Instructions on how to opt out of reporting rental payment information.
8. A Place for the tenant to sign and date in order to accept the offer of rental payment reporting.
B. The written election to begin rental payment reporting may not be accepted from the tenant at the time of the offer but A tenant may submit the tenant's completed written election of rental payment reporting at any time after receiving the offer of rental payment reporting from the landlord. A tenant may request and shall obtain additional copies of the written election of the rental payment reporting form from the landlord at any time.
C. the landlord may require the tenant to pay a fee of not more than the lesser of the actual cost to the landlord for the landlord to provide the rental payment reporting or $10 per month. The payment or nonpayment of this fee may not be reported to the credit reporting agency and any nonpayment:
1. Is not a nonpayment of rent and is not cause for terminating the rental agreement.
2. May not be deducted from the tenant's security deposit.
3. Allows the landlord to stop reporting the rental payments to the credit reporting agency, if the nonpayment continues for more than thirty days.
D. A tenant who elects to stop the rental PAYMENT reporting shall notify the landlord in writing and may not elect rental payment reporting again for at least six months after the date of the tenant's written request to stop rental payment reporting.
