Bill Title: Requires tenants in housing court proceedings be given information pertaining to their rights including that only a judge may issue a warrant to evict them; they should assert any defense or counterclaim in their answer, that they have a right to have the premises inspected to confirm any claim of dangerous or unhealthy conditions, that they may have a right to withhold rent for failure to make repairs and that OCA sells information to residential tenant screening companies.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2012-01-04 - REFERRED TO JUDICIARY [S01291 Detail]

Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [HTML]

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Sponsors

Name	Type	Sponsorship	District	Financial	Encyclopedia	Biography
Senator Thomas Duane [D]	Primary	Sponsored Bills	SD-029	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart

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