Tenancy in Com./E-Notary/SmallClaims Changes.

This bill started life as "Transliterator Licensing Board Mods." By the time it passed, it was about tenancy law, electronic notarization, and small claims procedures. That's already a shell bill. But read the full enacted title and you find something the short title doesn't mention at all.

Buried inside the tenancy and notary provisions is a section that prohibits counties and cities from requiring landlords to accept tenants whose income comes from federal housing assistance programs. In plain English... local governments can no longer pass laws saying you can't refuse to rent to someone just because they're paying with a Section 8 voucher.

The short title says "Tenancy in Common / E-Notary / Small Claims Changes." That covers three of the bill's topics. The fourth... the one about housing voucher discrimination... isn't mentioned anywhere in the title. It's the kind of provision that affects the most vulnerable renters in the state, and it was tucked into a bill about notary rules.