Safe Healthy Homes 2026 Prep Checklist

The main things the enacted bills schedule for landlords

The Safe Healthy Homes Act is two enacted ordinances, Bill 250329-AA and Bill 250330-AA, both signed May 7, 2026 and scheduled for November 1, 2026. As of our last review, October 11, 2026, the provisions below are future-effective requirements, not currently operative requirements. Current implementation and any later court orders require verification before reliance.

• Future license posting. Bill 250329-AA would require an owner to post or deliver the rental license and a restatement of § 9-3901(4)(h) to tenants within 7 days of receiving the license, at each issuance or renewal. (The ready-to-fill notice for this lives in the Tenant License-Posting Notice.)
• Expired and suspended licenses. Bill 250329-AA would amend the Code's specified rent-recovery and possession restrictions to address expired and suspended licenses expressly. How those provisions apply to a particular period, claim, or defense is case-specific. The bill also includes a limited 15-day safe harbor for a private action under that section when its stated renewal conditions are met; it does not extend the license expiration date or create an active-license grace period.
• Future eviction-action CRS. At the time of filing an eviction action, Bill 250329-AA would require a CRS issued no more than 30 days before the bill's stated "date of enrollment." The bill's official text reads "date of enrollment," not "filing"; how that maps to court procedure is unresolved. Ask a Pennsylvania attorney before relying on it.
• Attachment duties, today and later. Attaching a copy of the license to an eviction or rent-collection action is already required (§ 9-3901(4)(e)). Bill 250329-AA's separate § 9-3901(4)(h) provision would add the CRS records required by § 9-3903 and the code-violation records for the relevant tenancy.
• Future tenant CRS request process. Bill 250329-AA would let a tenant request a CRS once per 90 days and would give the owner 10 days to provide one issued no more than 30 days before the request. The bill states a rent-collection consequence for noncompliance until the CRS is provided; the trigger, period, and any safe harbor must be evaluated on the facts of a specific case.
• A future cure clock for severe violations. Bill 250329-AA would treat failure to correct an unsafe, unfit, or imminently dangerous violation within 30 days after receiving the notice, or sooner as indicated by L&I, as CRS noncompliance unless the notice is timely appealed. Its separate provisions address tenant notice and specified rent-recovery and possession restrictions; their application to a particular period or claim is case-specific.
• Bill 250329-AA remedies. For 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 rent abatement and refund for the period defined there. It also lists court-ordered relief and reasonable attorney's fees and costs.
• Scheduled good-cause expansion. Bill 250330-AA would require good cause at the expiration of any residential lease, not just a lease under one year, and would broaden covered conduct to specified actions to terminate a tenancy.
• Bill 250330-AA remedies. 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 distinct from Bill 250329-AA's remedies.
• Future proactive inspections and public reporting. L&I is authorized to establish a proactive inspection program on a regular cycle by July 2030, subject to feasibility. Bill 250329-AA would also require annual public reports, the first due December 31, 2027, including specified unsafe, unfit, or imminently dangerous violation data.

The enacted bills state November 1, 2026 as an effective date; current status must be verified before relying on a future rule. Read the full Safe Healthy Homes Act guide →

What we recommend you do, in order

Every provision above traces back to the same three questions: is your rental license active and not suspended, do you have any open L&I violations, and is your Certificate of Rental Suitability current for the tenancy in place. The list below is our advice on how to work, not a statement of current legal requirements or a legal conclusion about a property:

• Confirm the license. Confirm your rental license status and renewal date for every address, not just the ones you think are current. (Your plan's scheduled re-checks and 60-, 30-, and 7-day reminders cover the City-records side of this.)
• Clear violations early. Look up open L&I violations by address and clear anything outstanding well before the 30-day and license-renewal clocks matter.
• Fix your mailing address. Check that the mailing address on file with L&I is current: notices, and eventually proactive-inspection scheduling, go to whatever address the City has.
• What we recommend on the CRS. We recommend pulling a Certificate of Rental Suitability inside the current issuance window before a new tenancy. For renewals, the City's published guidance is not consistent; review both sources and consider the stricter L&I workflow as our own way of managing the risk, not settled law (details in the CRS & Tenant Document Pack).
• Rework non-renewal assumptions. If you rely on month-to-month or short-term non-renewals as part of your business, understand the good-cause and owner-occupant-sale rules before the scheduled November 1 changes could affect what counts as valid notice.
• Stage the posting notice. Have the license-delivery notice ready so the 7-day delivery window is a filing task, not a scramble.