Commercial Tenant Protection Act – SB 1103
2024
SB 1103 provides common sense commercial tenant protections for small businesses and small nonprofits that will reduce the risk of displacement through transparent and fair commercial leasing practices.
Small businesses and nonprofits in California have far fewer protections than residential tenants, and are being forced out of business and displaced from their communities at an alarming rate.
LCCRSF is sponsoring SB 1103 (D-Menjivar), the Commercial Tenant Protection Act, which will protect commercial tenants against rent increases, unclear and unfair lease terms, exorbitant added fees, and language inaccessibility in leases.
SB 1103/The Commercial Tenant Protection Act supports commercial tenants by:
- Expanding existing translation requirements to commercial leases that are negotiated in a language other than English. In these situations, the commercial tenant will be provided with a translation of the lease in the language in which the lease was negotiated.
- Limiting security deposits to one month’s rent for commercial tenant small businesses and nonprofits.
- Increasing required notice periods for small business and small nonprofit commercial tenants facing a rent increase or termination of tenancy so that they are commensurate with those periods available to residential tenants.
Sen. Caroline Menjivar Press Release
SB 1103 Sponsors:
