The COVID Project
The record
- Jurisdiction
- California
- Level
- State
- Authority
- Statute: Stats. 2020, ch. 37
- Issued
- 2020-08-31 Aug. 31, 2020
- Effective
- 2020-08-31
- End
- Protections through Jan. 31, 2021; extended by SB 91 (Jan. 29, 2021) to June 30, 2021 and AB 832 (June 28, 2021) to Sept. 30, 2021 (read as 2021-01-31)
- In force
- Aug. 31, 2020 to Jan. 31, 2021
- Quarters
- 2020 Q32020 Q42021 Q1
2020 Q22020 Q32020 Q42021 Q12021 Q22021 Q3
- Limitation types
- Courts and public officesOther
- Addressees
- landlords and tenants
- mortgage servicers
- superior courts (unlawful detainer)
- Functions reached
- PM
- SV
- ML mortgage servicing (forbearance denial notices)
- CT
- Collection
- Travel, gatherings, courts and public offices ECO-C
Operative words
This act shall be known, and may be cited, as the Tenant, Homeowner, and Small Landlord Relief and Stabilization Act of 2020.... [The bill] would, until February 1, 2025,... prohibit a tenant that delivers a declaration, under penalty of perjury, of COVID-19-related financial distress pursuant to these provisions from being deemed in default with regard to the COVID-19 rental debt
Enforcement
Statute; perjury provisions; damages of $1,000-$2,500 for specified landlord violations
Notes
Legislative findings recite the Judicial Council's Emergency Rule 1 (Apr. 6, 2020) and its Aug. 14, 2020 sunset vote.