Bill Text: IL HB2727 | 2023-2024 | 103rd General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Amends the Mobile Home Park Act. Provides that, when a mobile home park owner notifies the manufactured home owners in the park of a rent or fee increase and the increase is in excess of 3% above the current rent, the mobile home park owner shall provide a written justification for the increase and make available to any resident, by request, documentation that show the costs and commencement of work that justify the rent increase, as applicable. Provides that in order for an increase in costs to justify a rent increase above 3%, for costs incurred for ordinary maintenance, including preventative maintenance, repair of the roads, infrastructure, or other community property or services, the mobile home park owner must demonstrate that the work performed was necessary to meet the mobile home park owner's warranty of habitability obligations, and demonstrate that the rent increase imposed was no more than was necessary to cover the actual and reasonable cost of the work performed.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 23-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-10-01 - Added Co-Sponsor Rep. Katie Stuart [HB2727 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2023-HB2727-Introduced.html

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103RD GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2023 and 2024 HB2727 Introduced , by Rep. Anna Moeller SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
210 ILCS 115/13.5 new
Amends the Mobile Home Park Act. Provides that, when a mobile home park owner notifies the manufactured home owners in the park of a rent or fee increase and the increase is in excess of 3% above the current rent, the mobile home park owner shall provide a written justification for the increase and make available to any resident, by request, documentation that show the costs and commencement of work that justify the rent increase, as applicable. Provides that in order for an increase in costs to justify a rent increase above 3%, for costs incurred for ordinary maintenance, including preventative maintenance, repair of the roads, infrastructure, or other community property or services, the mobile home park owner must demonstrate that the work performed was necessary to meet the mobile home park owner's warranty of habitability obligations, and demonstrate that the rent increase imposed was no more than was necessary to cover the actual and reasonable cost of the work performed.
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A BILL FOR
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AN ACT concerning regulation.
Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
represented in the General Assembly:
Section 5. The Mobile Home Park Act is amended by adding
Section 13.5 as follows:
(210 ILCS 115/13.5 new)
Sec. 13.5. Notice of rental increase. When a mobile home
park owner notifies the manufactured home owners in the park
of a rent or fee increase and the increase is in excess of 3%
above the current rent, the mobile home park owner shall
provide a written justification for the increase that complies
with this Section and make available to any resident, by
request, documentation that show the costs and commencement of
work that justify the rent increase pursuant to this Section,
as applicable.
In order for an increase in costs to justify a rent
increase above 3%, pursuant to this Section, for costs
incurred for ordinary maintenance, including preventative
maintenance, repair of the roads, infrastructure, or other
community property or services, the mobile home park owner
must demonstrate that the work performed was necessary to meet
the mobile home park owner's warranty of habitability
obligations, and demonstrate that the rent increase imposed

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was no more than was necessary to cover the actual and
reasonable cost of the work performed.