2025 Regular Session
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WEST virginia legislature
2025 regular session
Introduced
House Bill 2903
By Delegates Young, Pushkin, and Lewis
[Introduced February 24, 2025; referred to the Committee on the Judiciary]
A BILL to amend the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended, by adding a new section, designated §37-6-32, relating to prohibiting convenience fees for tenants of rental properties.
Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia:
Article 6. landlord and Tenant.
§37-6-32. Convenience Fees Prohibited.
(a) A landlord shall not charge a convenience fee to a tenant's rental payment.
(b) This prohibition shall not apply to any landlord that accepts a form of payment of rent which does not require a convenience fee for such payment.
NOTE: The purpose of this bill is to prohibit convenience fees for tenants of rental properties.
Strike-throughs indicate language that would be stricken from a heading or the present law and underscoring indicates new language that would be added.