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HB 3828

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2025 Regular Session Introduced by Willy Chotzen

Requires written justification and documentation for rent/fee increases over 3% or CPI, ensuring costs reflect necessary, actual work.

In committee upon adjournment.
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Bill Summary · HB 3828

HB 3828 — Summary (2025)

Bill number: HB 3828
Sponsor: Rep. Anna Moeller
Subject: Amend Mobile Home Landlord and Tenant Rights Act — notice and justification requirements for rent/fee increases in manufactured home parks (adds 765 ILCS 745/18.5)
Status: In committee upon adjournment (6/28/2025). Introduced February–March 2025; referred to multiple committees (Rules, Housing, Commerce & Consumer Protection, Public Health) per legislative actions.

Purpose

To limit and increase transparency around rent and fee increases imposed by manufactured home park owners, by requiring notice, written justification, and documentary support when increases exceed a modest threshold (3% or the Consumer Price Index rate, whichever is greater). The aim is to protect manufactured-home owners from large, unexplained increases while allowing increases that reflect actual, necessary costs.

Key provisions

  • Adds Section 18.5 to the Mobile Home Landlord and Tenant Rights Act (765 ILCS 745).
  • Threshold for required notice/justification: when a rent or fee increase exceeds the greater of (a) 3% above current rent or (b) the percentage rate of rent in the Consumer Price Index (CPI).
  • If the increase exceeds the CPI rate, the park owner must:
    • Provide a written justification that complies with Section 18.5.
    • Make documentation available to all residents showing the costs and commencement of work that justify the increase.
  • Eligible cost categories identified in the text include ordinary maintenance, repairs of roads/infrastructure/community property or services, property/real estate taxes, and utilities not paid directly by the manufactured-home owner.
  • For such costs to justify an increase, the park owner must show:
    • The work was necessary to meet the park owner’s warranty-of-habitability obligations.
    • The increase was no more than necessary to cover the actual and reasonable cost of the work performed.

Who is affected

  • Primary: manufactured-home owners (residents) in regulated parks and park owners/operators in Illinois.
  • Secondary: park managers, local housing advocates, and legal advisers who may assist in disputes over justification or cost documentation.

Procedural/timing notes & gaps

  • The bill requires notice and documentation but does not specify timing requirements for notice (e.g., how far in advance) or enforcement mechanisms/penalties for noncompliance.
  • “Consumer Price Index” is referenced but the bill does not specify which CPI series (e.g., CPI-U) or base period — potentially requiring administrative or judicial interpretation.

Potential impacts

  • Increases transparency and may curb arbitrary large increases in lot rent/fees.
  • Imposes documentation and administrative burdens on park owners when increases exceed the threshold.
  • May prompt disputes over whether work was necessary for habitability and whether costs were “actual and reasonable.”
  • Administrative clarifications (notice timing, CPI definition, enforcement) would be needed for operational implementation.

Compiled from official sources — confirm details with the bill’s official record.

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