HOUSE  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  No. 4686

The Commonwealth of Massachusetts

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HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, April 28, 2022.

The committee on Housing to whom was referred the petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 1376) of Tackey Chan relative to requirements and restrictions to manufactured housing communities, reports recommending that the accompanying bill (House, No. 4686) ought to pass [Representative Elugardo of Boston dissents].

For the committee,

JAMES ARCIERO.

        FILED ON: 4/7/2022

HOUSE  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  No. 4686

The Commonwealth of Massachusetts

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In the One Hundred and Ninety-Second General Court
(2021-2022)

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An Act relative to manufactured housing.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:
 

SECTION 1. Subsection (2) of Section 32L of Chapter 140 of the General Laws, as appearing in the 2016 Official Edition, is hereby amended in lines 6 and 8 by striking out the words “or change in rent”.

SECTION 2. Section 32L of said Chapter 140 is hereby amended by inserting the following words:- “Any change in rent that does not apply uniformly to all manufactured home tenants of a similar class shall create a rebuttable presumption that such change in rent is unfair. Under this section, differences in the year of entry into an occupancy agreement or tenancy shall render otherwise similar classes dissimilar. Subsection (2) shall apply retroactively.”