HB1231

HB1231 clarifies what counts as an "assistance animal" in rental housing by expanding the definition to include emotional support animals, service animals, and therapy animals, and specifies when landlords can require tenants to provide documentation proving they have a disability that requires such an animal. The bill also establishes exceptions—landlords cannot demand documentation if the tenant's disability is already obvious to them, and small landlords with four or fewer units in owner-occupied buildings are exempt from having to allow assistance animals.