Title: Tenant Protection Notification Act of 2020
Policy area: Housing and Community Development

Summary:
Tenant Protection Notification Act of 2020
This bill requires that affected tenants be notified of the 120-day moratorium on evictions that began on March 27, 2020, in response to the COVID-19 (i.e., coronavirus disease 2019) public health emergency.
Specifically, the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) must develop a written notice in plain language to inform such tenants that the moratorium applies to their dwelling and to explain its effects. Lessors must provide the notice to the affected tenants.
If there is any change to the moratorium during the COVID-19 public health emergency, HUD must develop, and lessors must provide to tenants, an additional written notice to inform tenants of the change and its effects.

[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 6815 Introduced in House (IH)]

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116th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 6815

To amend the CARES Act to provide for notice of the eviction moratorium 
 under such Act to be provided to tenants of dwelling units subject to 
                such moratorium, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                              May 12, 2020

Ms. Finkenauer introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                    Committee on Financial Services

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                                 A BILL


 
To amend the CARES Act to provide for notice of the eviction moratorium 
 under such Act to be provided to tenants of dwelling units subject to 
                such moratorium, and for other purposes.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Tenant Protection Notification Act 
of 2020''.

SEC. 2. NOTICE OF EVICTION MORATORIUM.

    Section 4024 of the CARES Act (15 U.S.C. 9058; Public Law 116-136; 
134 Stat. 492) is amended--
            (1) in the subsection heading for subsection (c), by 
        inserting ``Required for Eviction'' after ``Notice'';
            (2) by adding at the end the following new subsection:
    ``(d) Notice of Moratorium to Tenants.--
            ``(1) Development and dissemination of notice.--The 
        Secretary of Housing and Urban Development shall--
                    ``(A) in consultation with the heads of other 
                covered agencies, develop a written notice, in plain 
                language that is truthful and non-misleading, designed 
                to inform tenants of covered dwelling units that the 
                moratorium on evictions under this section applies to 
                the dwelling unit of tenant and to explain the effect 
                of such moratorium on the tenant's tenancy; and
                    ``(B) provide all heads of other covered agencies 
                with the notice developed under this paragraph and make 
                such notice publicly available.
            ``(2) Notice to lessors.--The head of each covered agency 
        shall--
                    ``(A) notify each lessor of a covered dwelling unit 
                for which the covered agency provides assistance 
                described in paragraph (5) that the dwelling unit is a 
                covered dwelling unit and of the requirement under 
                paragraph (3) to provide notice to tenants; and
                    ``(B) provide each such lessor with a copy of the 
                written notice developed pursuant to paragraph (1)(A).
            ``(3) Initial notice to tenants.--Promptly upon 
        notification to a lessor pursuant to paragraph (2)(A) that a 
        dwelling unit leased by such lessor is a covered dwelling unit, 
        the lessor shall provide the tenant of the covered dwelling 
        unit, by United States mail, a copy of the written notice 
        provided to such lessor pursuant to paragraph (2)(B).
            ``(4) Notice of change in moratorium.--
                    ``(A) Development and dissemination.--If any 
                amendment to this section or other change to the 
                moratorium under this section takes effect before the 
                termination by the Federal Emergency Management Agency 
                of the emergency declared on March 13, 2020, by the 
                President under the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief 
                and Emergency Assistance Act (42 U.S.C. 4121 et seq.) 
                relating to the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) 
                pandemic, the Secretary of Housing and Urban 
                Development shall--
                            ``(i) in consultation with the heads of 
                        other covered agencies, develop a written 
                        notice, in plain language that is truthful and 
                        non-misleading, designed to inform tenants of 
                        dwelling units affected by such amendment or 
                        other change of such amendment or other change 
                        and to explain how such amendment or change 
                        affects such the tenant's tenancy; and
                            ``(ii) provide all heads of other covered 
                        agencies with the notice developed under this 
                        subparagraph and make such notice publicly 
                        available.
                    ``(B) Notice to lessors.--The head of each covered 
                agency shall--
                            ``(i) notify each lessor of a covered 
                        dwelling unit for which the covered agency 
                        provides assistance described in paragraph (5) 
                        and that is affected by such amendment or other 
                        change of such amendment or other change and of 
                        the requirement under subparagraph (C) to 
                        provide notice to tenants; and
                            ``(ii) provide each such lessor with a copy 
                        of the written notice developed pursuant to 
                        subparagraph (A)(i).
                    ``(C) Notice to tenants.--Promptly upon 
                notification to a lessor pursuant to subparagraph 
                (B)(i) that a covered dwelling unit leased by such 
                lessor is affected by such amendment or other change, 
                the lessor shall provide the tenant of the covered 
                dwelling unit, by United States mail, a copy of the 
                written notice provided to such lessor pursuant to 
                subparagraph (B)(ii).
            ``(5) Covered agency.--The term `covered agency' means--
                    ``(A) any agency or other entity that administers--
                            ``(i) any housing program described in 
                        subsection (a)(2); or
                            ``(ii) any program that provides insurance 
                        for, guarantees, supplements, or assists any 
                        Federally backed mortgage loan or Federally 
                        backed multifamily mortgage loan;
                    ``(B) the Federal National Mortgage Association, 
                with respect to loans purchased or securitized by such 
                Association; and
                    ``(C) the Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation, 
                with respect to loans purchased or securitized by such 
                Corporation.''.
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