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Scheduled licensing changes, and more public visibility

Bill 250329-AA would tighten renewal eligibility. A license is not issued or renewed unless the findings in § 9-3901(2)(b) are met, so an applicant with an uncorrected violation that prevents those findings would be expressly "not eligible" for issuance or renewal, and a license issued while an appeal was pending could be suspended after the violation is affirmed and relevant appeals are exhausted. Under the bill's amended § 9-3903(2)(d), failure to correct an unsafe, unfit, or imminently dangerous violation within 30 days after receiving the notice is CRS noncompliance unless the notice is timely appealed. The effect of a particular violation depends on its classification, status, appeal posture, and the Department's application of the enacted text.

Bill 250329-AA would also require an owner to provide the license and a restatement of § 9-3901(4)(h) to tenants within 7 days of receiving the license, at each issuance or renewal, using the bill's stated methods. Its rent-recovery and possession language would expressly address expired and suspended licenses. How those provisions apply to a particular period, claim, or defense requires case-specific legal review.

The two bills schedule different remedy frameworks

Bill 250329-AA remedy framework. In a private action under the amended licensing chapter, the bill would entitle a prevailing tenant to compensatory damages or $1,000 in liquidated damages per violation, whichever is greater. For a violation of the enacted bill's future-effective § 9-3901(4)(h), it separately lists abatement and refund of rent for the period defined there, along with other court-ordered relief and reasonable attorney's fees and costs.

Bill 250330-AA remedy framework. In a judicial proceeding under the amended landlord-tenant chapter, the bill would let a court award compensatory damages and restitution or, if the plaintiff elects before judgment, $1,000 in statutory damages per violation. It separately addresses punitive damages for a willful or wanton violation, attorney's fees and costs, license suspension or revocation, and an affirmative defense. Those triggers and formulas are not interchangeable with Bill 250329-AA's.

Bill 250329-AA includes a future 15-day renewal safe harbor for the bill's private-remedy analysis when its stated conditions are met. It is not an extension of the license expiration date, a validity grace period, or a general shield from City enforcement.

Future CRS and filing-attachment duties

At the time of filing an eviction action, Bill 250329-AA would require an owner to provide the tenant and court a CRS issued no more than 30 days before the bill's stated "date of enrollment." The bill says "date of enrollment," not "filing"; how that phrase maps to court procedure is unresolved and requires current court guidance or counsel review.

Attaching a copy of the license to an eviction or rent-collection action is already required today (§ 9-3901(4)(e)), and so is attaching either the lead certificate or documentation that the property is not Targeted Housing (§ 6-809(4)). The enacted bill's future-effective § 9-3901(4)(h) would add the CRS records required by § 9-3903 and the code-violation records for the relevant tenancy. The bill also schedules a tenant-request process. Those additions are future-effective provisions, not currently operative requirements.

Already law today: failing to fix violations covered by your CRS attestation (fire protection and smoke-detection equipment, operating systems, and fit-and-habitable conditions) within 30 days after receiving the notice, or sooner as indicated by L&I, is CRS noncompliance under current § 9-3903(2)(d). New on November 1: Bill 250329-AA narrows that rule to unsafe, unfit, or imminently dangerous violations. A timely appeal keeps the notice from counting unless the violation is affirmed; then noncompliance runs from the cure date on the notice (§ 9-3903(2)(d)(.2)). The bill's future-effective § 9-3901(4)(h) connects defined noncompliance to specified rent-recovery and possession restrictions. Whether and when those affect a particular period, claim, filing, or defense is case-specific.

Good-cause expansion is scheduled, not currently operative

On the August 24, 2026 review date, Philadelphia Code § 9-804(12) applies upon expiration of a residential lease of less than one year, including a month-to-month tenancy. Bill 250330-AA is scheduled for November 1, 2026 and would extend that good-cause rule to expiration of any residential lease while broadening covered conduct to specified actions to terminate a tenancy.

The bill would add a good-cause ground for a bona fide arm's-length sale to a purchaser who intends to owner-occupy within 90 days of closing, with an executed agreement of sale, the purchaser's signed statement, and at least 60 days' notice of non-renewal. We recommend reviewing any planned termination or non-renewal with a licensed Pennsylvania attorney before relying on a future provision.

Six more provisions in the two bills

The two bills also schedule these provisions, summarized from the certified bills; none is operative before the effective date.

• Tenant notice of severe violations (§ 9-3901(4)(c)). An owner who receives a notice that a property or unit is unsafe, unfit, or imminently dangerous, or violates the Fire Code, would have to post it (with later inspection reports and appeals) or deliver it to the affected tenants at least 24 hours before the notice's correction deadline. No notice is needed if the violation is fully corrected in the time L&I allows.
• Suspension notices (§ 9-3901(4)(d)). A notice of license suspension would have to be posted or delivered to the affected tenants within 7 days of receipt.
• Appeal results (§ 9-3901(2)(e)). The results of any appeal covered by the licensing section would have to be posted or delivered to the affected tenants within 7 days of receipt.
• Burden of proof on CRS compliance (§ 9-3903(2)(d)(.1)). In an eviction or rent-collection action, the owner would bear the burden of showing compliance with the CRS issuance requirements during the relevant tenancy.
• The expanded attestation (§ 9-3903(2)(b)(.3)). The owner's CRS attestation would add that the premises are free of unfit, unsafe, or imminently dangerous conditions (PM-108, PM-109, PM-110) and that the owner will keep the fire-protection and smoke-detection equipment, the operating systems, and the property's fit-and-habitable condition maintained.
• New § 9-816 (Bill 250330-AA). A tenant right to organize with an owner duty to confer in good faith; harassment rules whose examples include failing to give 24 hours' notice for non-emergency repairs; a rebuttable presumption that the warranty of habitability was breached once an L&I violation's cure date has passed with no appeal pending and the conditions unremedied, with full rent abatement while an uncured unfit, unsafe, or imminently dangerous notice stands; and a two-year window to file a claim.

Litigation status requires current verification

The Justia copy of the docket linked from this site stops at June 5, 2026; CourtListener's free copy ran through August 31, 2026 when we last read it. The date at the top of this page is when we last read the docket, not a promise of how often we check. Check PACER or ask counsel to verify the current docket before relying on the November 1 date in a filing, notice, or dispute.

Rule last reviewed October 11, 2026. Litigation timeline in the guide →