House bill NO. 785
INTRODUCED
BY Z. Zephyr
By Request of the ****
A BILL FOR AN ACT ENTITLED: "AN ACT revising the residential landlord and tenant act; requiring 60 days' notice for notice declining to offer a new lease or to offer a new rental agreement with different terms when a rental period is longer than month to month."
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MONTANA:
NEW SECTION. Section 1. Duty of landlord to provide notice for rental agreements longer than month to month. (1) For a rental agreement entered into on or after October 1, 2023, when a rental period is longer than month to month, a landlord must provide a tenant 60 days' notice if the landlord wishes to:
(a) decline to offer a new lease; or
(b) offer a new rental agreement with terms different from those of the current rental agreement.
(2) The section does not alter the remedies provided for a landlord or tenant by Title 70, chapter 24, part 4.
NEW SECTION. Section 2. Codification instruction. [Section 1] is intended to be codified as an integral part of Title 70, chapter 24, part 3, and the provisions of Title 70, chapter 24, part 3, apply to [section 1].