Pennsylvania SB 745: An Act amending the act of November 24, 1976 (P.L.1176, No.261), known as the Manufactured Home Community Rights Act, providing for resident associations and group meetings; further providing for disclosure of fees; providing for reasonable increases in rent and fees, for justified rent increase to support extraordinary increases in operating expenses and for temporary surcharge for capital improvements; and further providing for damages.

Bill Text

PRINTER'S NO. 872
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA
SENATE BILL
No. 745
Session of
2025
INTRODUCED BY SCHWANK, COSTA, SAVAL, BAKER, PENNYCUICK, KEARNEY,
KANE, MUTH, CAPPELLETTI, VOGEL, L. WILLIAMS, HAYWOOD AND
MASTRIANO, JUNE 3, 2025
REFERRED TO URBAN AFFAIRS AND HOUSING, JUNE 3, 2025
AN ACT
Amending the act of November 24, 1976 (P.L.1176, No.261),
entitled "An act providing for the rights and duties of
manufactured home owners or operators and manufactured home
lessees," providing for resident associations and group
meetings; further providing for disclosure of fees; providing
for reasonable increases in rent and fees, for justified rent
increase to support extraordinary increases in operating
expenses and for temporary surcharge for capital
improvements; and further providing for damages.
The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
hereby enacts as follows:
Section 1. The act of November 24, 1976 (P.L.1176, No.261),
known as the Manufactured Home Community Rights Act, is amended
by adding a section to read:
Section 4.2. Resident Associations and Group Meetings.--(a)
A manufactured home community owner may not prohibit or
interfere with the operation of a resident association.
(b) A manufactured home community owner shall allow group
meetings on site between residents without any limitations
related to the number of residents, location of the meetings and
the timing of meetings.
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Section 2. Section 6(c) and (e) introductory paragraph and
(2) of the act are amended to read:
Section 6. Disclosure of Fees.--* * *
(c) Failure to disclose such rent, fees, service charges and
assessments shall render them void and unenforceable in the
courts of the Commonwealth. Increases in such rent, fees,
service charges and assessments payable to the owner shall be
unenforceable until [30] 180 days after notice thereof has been
posted in the public portion of the community office or other
conspicuous and readily accessible place in the manufactured
home community and mailed to the manufactured home lessee.
However, rent shall not be increased during the term of the
lease.
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(e) All new leases, lease extensions and lease renewals[,
which are for more than a 60-day period,] shall contain the
following full disclosures:
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(2) An explanation of the manner in which the manufactured
home space rental amount will be increased, including, but not
limited to, notification to the manufactured home lessee at
least [60] 180 days in advance of the increase.
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Section 3. The act is amended by adding sections to read:
Section 6.1. Reasonable Increases in Rent and Fees.-- (a) A
manufactured home community owner or manufactured home community
operator may increase rent, fees, service charges or assessments
for any 12-month period, effective upon the renewal or extension
of a lease for a manufactured home lot on or after the effective
date of this subsection, if the following conditions are
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satisfied:
(1) The community owner or community operator posts notice
of the proposed increase in a public area within the
manufactured home community at least 180 days prior to the
effective date of the increase and notifies all manufactured
home lessees and manufactured home tenants of the proposed rent
increase by certified mail addressed to their residences at
least 180 days prior to the effective date of the increase.
(2) Except as provided in sections 6.2 and 6.3, and except
for charges imposed by a limited equity cooperative association
subject to 68 Pa.C.S. Pt. II Subpt. C (relating to
cooperatives), the aggregate increase in rent, fees, service
charges and assessments does not exceed the average Consumer
Price Index for All Urban Consumers (CPI-U) for the Northeast
Region, for the most recently available 60-month period except:
(i) i f the average 60-month CPI-U is lower than 2%, the
aggregate increase in rent, fees, service charges and
assessments does not exceed 2%; and
(ii) i f the average 60-month CPI-U is greater than 4%, the
increase in rent, fees, service charges and assessments does not
exceed 4%.
(b) The Department of Community and Economic Development
shall publish the average 60-month CPI-U monthly on a publicly
accessible Internet website and shall transmit the information
as a notice to the Legislative Reference Bureau for publication
in the next available issue of the Pennsylvania Bulletin.
(c) Except as provided in section 6.3, no community owner or
community operator that has been found by a local code official,
the Department of Environmental Protection, other enforcement
entity or court to be in violation of any applicable health or
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safety law or regulation may increase rent, fees, service
charges or assessments unless the violation has been