Tenants could end leases for landlord failures regardless of rent dates

Tenants could give written notice describing the landlord's failure and setting a date to end the lease. This process covers serious landlord failures to follow a residential lease or failures to meet legal duties that seriously affect health and safety. For a problem that can be fixed, the lease would continue if the landlord adequately starts an honest effort to fix it within 14 days of receiving notice. Tenants could not use this process for conditions caused by or attributable to themselves or people or animals on the property with their permission. The termination date would be at least 30 days after the landlord receives notice and would not have to fall on a rent due date.

Tenants could give another written termination notice describing the same or a similar recurring failure. This provision covers the same or a similar landlord failure that occurs after the initial 14-day period for starting an effort to fix the problem. The landlord would not receive another opportunity to fix the recurring problem before the lease ends. The restriction on conditions caused by or attributable to tenants or people or animals they allow on the property would still apply. The lease would end on the date in the second notice, at least 30 days after the landlord receives it, regardless of rent due dates.