SCS/HB 2385 - This act provides that no county or city shall enact, maintain, or enforce any ordinance or resolution that: (1) Prohibits landlords from refusing to lease or rent a privately-owned, single family or multiple-unit residential or commercial rental property to a person because his or her lawful source of income includes funding from a federal or other housing assistance program;
(2) Restricts a landlord's ability to use or consider income-qualifying methods, credit scores, credit reports, eviction or property damage history, or criminal history, according to his or her own customarily applied criteria, or requesting such information to determine whether to rent or lease a property to a prospective tenant;
(3) Limits the amount of money for a security deposit; or
(4) Requires tenants to automatically receive a right of first refusal.
KATIE O'BRIEN