California Bill Would Require Maximum of One Month’s Rent for Security Deposits

California Bill Would Require Maximum of One Month’s Rent for Security Deposits
A car drives by a building advertising apartment leases in San Francisco, Calif., on Sept. 1, 2020. Justin Sullivan/Getty Images
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California may soon set a new maximum security deposit a landlord can charge with a proposed bill that would reduce the state’s current two month’s rent requirement for unfurnished apartments and three months for furnished ones.

Assembly Bill 12, authored by Assemblyman Matt Haney (D-San Francisco), would mandate landlords only charge a maximum security deposit of one month’s rent in both cases, according to the bill’s text.