Bill
LD 1183
Extends rent-to-own protections to mobile home park tenants, aligning them with other rental housing safeguards and ensuring consistent protections, with no net state cost.
LD 1183: An Act To Ensure Rent-To-Own Protections Apply To Mobile Home Park Tenants
Overview
- Purpose: The bill aims to ensure that existing rent-to-own protections that apply to other rental housing also cover mobile home park tenants. By extending these protections, tenants who participate in rent-to-own arrangements for manufactured homes located in mobile home parks would receive the same safeguards as tenants in other types of rental properties.
- Status: Signed by the Governor on May 23, 2025.
- Introduced: March 20, 2025
- Sponsor: Rep. Gere of Kennebunkport
- Committee: Housing and Economic Development
- Legislature: 132nd Maine Legislature
What changes the bill would make
- Expansion of protections: The bill extends rent-to-own protections to mobile home park tenants, aligning the treatment of these tenants with other renters in Maine. While the specific protections (notice, dispute resolution, eviction safeguards, etc.) are not detailed in the provided materials, the intent is to cover rent-to-own arrangements involving manufactured homes situated in mobile home parks.
- Scope: Applies to tenants in rent-to-own agreements within mobile home parks, addressing a gap where such protections may not have previously applied.
Who is affected
- Affected groups:
- Tenants of mobile home parks who are part of rent-to-own arrangements for the manufactured homes they occupy.
- Mobile home park owners/operators and landlords who host rent-to-own arrangements.
- Potentially state or local housing agencies that administer or enforce rental protections.
- Rationale: Ensures consistent application of rent-to-own protections across all rental housing types, reducing disparities for mobile home park tenants.
Fiscal and administrative notes
- Fiscal impact: No fiscal impact anticipated for both the preliminary and engrossed fiscal notes (as of Apr 8, 2025 and May 6, 2025). This suggests the change is not expected to have material cost to the state.
- Administrative: The bill underwent standard legislative procedures (referred to committee, reported OTP, engrosed, concurrence) before final passage and signing.
Procedural timeline and legislative history
- 2025-03-20: Referred to the Committee on Housing and Economic Development.
- 2025-04-22 to 2025-04-29: Processed through committee, voted OTP (Ought to Pass), and moved toward engrossment.
- 2025-05-06: Readings and concurrence steps completed; engrossed and sent forthwith.
- 2025-05-07 to 2025-05-13: Passed to be enacted in both chambers (concurrence steps completed).
- 2025-05-23: Signed by the Governor.
- Fiscal notes: Preliminary note (Apr 8, 2025) and subsequent note (May 6, 2025) both indicate no fiscal impact.
Bottom line
LD 1183 closes a coverage gap by ensuring rent-to-own protections apply to tenants in mobile home parks. The bill aligns treatment of mobile home park renters with other rental housing protections, with no anticipated cost to the state. It passed the Legislature and was signed into law in May 2025.
Compiled from official sources — confirm details with the bill’s official record.
Sign in to ask a question.
