Governor Jerry Brown on Tuesday signed AB 2819, a bill authored by
Assemblymember David Chiu (D-San Francisco) that will prevent innocent
tenants from having their credit tarnished by eviction actions that are
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A new law requiring additional tenant notification on prior bed bug infestations. The disclosure requirement took effect for new tenants July 1 and will apply to existing tenants Jan. 1. It requires landlords to provide tenant with a bed bug history of the apartment while prohibiting them from “showing, renting, or leasing a vacant dwelling unit that the landlord knows has a bed bug infestation.” Full text of legislation can be viewed at: https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB551