The Respect State Housing Laws Act would amend the CARES Act, which was the federal pandemic relief law passed in 2020, by removing a federal requirement that landlords provide tenants with notice to vacate before eviction proceedings. Currently, Section 4024 of the CARES Act mandates that landlords give such notice, but this bill would strike that requirement entirely, allowing states to set their own eviction notice rules without federal restrictions. The change would primarily affect landlords and tenants across the country, as it would defer to state and local housing laws for eviction procedures rather than maintaining uniform federal standards. The bill contains no specific funding or implementation timeline beyond the legislative amendment itself. By removing this federal requirement, the legislation would give individual states greater flexibility to determine their own tenant-landlord eviction procedures.
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