Senate Bill 670 Printer's Number 679

PENNSYLVANIA, April 28 - PRINTER'S NO. 679

THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA

SENATE BILL

No.

670

Session of

2025

INTRODUCED BY LANGERHOLC, MASTRIANO, STEFANO, J. WARD,

PENNYCUICK AND VOGEL, APRIL 28, 2025

REFERRED TO URBAN AFFAIRS AND HOUSING, APRIL 28, 2025

AN ACT

Amending the act of May 28, 1937 (P.L.955, No.265), entitled "An

act to promote public health, safety, morals, and welfare by

declaring the necessity of creating public bodies, corporate

and politic, to be known as housing authorities to engage in

slum clearance, and to undertake projects, to provide

dwelling accommodations for persons of low income; providing

for the organization of such housing authorities; defining

their powers and duties; providing for the exercise of such

powers, including the acquisition of property by purchase,

gift or eminent domain, the renting and selling of property,

and including borrowing money, issuing bonds, and other

obligations, and giving security therefor; prescribing the

remedies of obligees of housing authorities; authorizing

housing authorities to enter into agreements, including

agreements with the United States, the Commonwealth, and

political subdivisions and municipalities thereof; defining

the application of zoning, sanitary, and building laws and

regulations to projects built or maintained by such housing

authorities; exempting the property and securities of such

housing authorities from taxation; and imposing duties and

conferring powers upon the State Planning Board, and certain

other State officers and departments," providing for public

housing safety committees; further providing for requirements

regarding tenants and landlords in cities of the first class;

and providing for background checks for landlords.

The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania

hereby enacts as follows:

Section 1. The act of May 28, 1937 (P.L.955, No.265),

referred to as the Housing Authorities Law, is amended by adding

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