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Respect State Housing Laws Act

To amend the CARES Act to remove a requirement on lessors to provide notice to vacate, and for other purposes.

Introduced Feb 6, 2025

Latest action (Feb 6, 2025) Read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs.

Referred to
Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Committee
Policy area
Housing and Community Development
Issues
Housing
Legislative subjects (3)
Landlord and tenantLow- and moderate-income housingPublic housing

Summary
  • Removes the federal requirement that landlords provide notice to vacate before evicting tenants under the CARES Act.
  • Allows state housing laws to govern eviction notice requirements instead of federal CARES Act provisions.

AI-generated plain-language summary of the bill text — neutral, and may be imperfect. See the full text below for the exact wording.

Sponsor (1)
13 cosponsors

Actions (2)
  1. Feb 6, 2025 Read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs. · senate
  2. Feb 6, 2025 Introduced in Senate

More bills on these subjects (8)

Other bills that carry the most legislative subjects in common with this one (topical discovery — distinct from the procedural related bills above).

  • HR 5889 — Eviction Helpline Act (shares 3 subjects)
  • HR 6644 — 21st Century ROAD to Housing Act (shares 3 subjects)
  • HR 6337 — ROAD to Housing Act of 2025 (shares 3 subjects)
  • HRES 1299 — Providing for the concurrence by the House in the Senate amendment to H.R. 6644, with amendment. (shares 3 subjects)
  • HR 1078 — Respect State Housing Laws Act (shares 3 subjects)
  • HR 4552 — Transportation, Housing and Urban Development, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2026 (shares 3 subjects)
  • HR 8646 — Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agency Appropriations Act, 2027 (shares 2 subjects)
  • S 3583 — Upward Mobility Act of 2026 (shares 2 subjects)

Similar bills (6)

Bills with similar text or summary — includes reintroductions across Congresses. Ranked by semantic similarity of the bill text (computed locally); a neutral discovery aid, not a claim the bills are duplicates.

  • S 2416 — Identifying Regulatory Barriers to Housing Supply Act · Introduced Jul 23, 2025 · Cong. 119 74%
  • S 1174 — Local Zoning Decisions Protection Act of 2025 · Introduced Mar 27, 2025 · Cong. 119 72%
  • S 2361 — Accelerating Home Building Act of 2025 · Introduced Jul 21, 2025 · Cong. 119 71%
  • HR 4266 — Housing for US Act · Introduced Jun 30, 2025 · Cong. 119 69%
  • S 2668 — HOME Act of 2025 · Introduced Aug 1, 2025 · Cong. 119 69%
  • S 310 — Build Housing with Care Act of 2025 · Introduced Jan 29, 2025 · Cong. 119 69%

Text versions (1)
  • Introduced in Senate · Feb 6, 2025

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Full text

IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

February 6 (legislative day, February 5), 2025

Mrs. Hyde-Smith (for herself and Mr. Hagerty) introduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs

A BILL

To amend the CARES Act to remove a requirement on lessors to provide notice to vacate, 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 “Respect State Housing Laws Act”.

SEC. 2. CLARIFICATION.

Section 4024 of the CARES Act (15 U.S.C. 9058) is amended by striking subsection (c). <all>

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