Pennsylvania landlords must now disclose parking availability and the fees attached to it before a prospective tenant signs a lease, under House Bill 344, which Governor Josh Shapiro signed into law on Thursday, October 22, as Act 64 of 2026, the Pennsylvania House Democrats announced.

Source: Pennsylvania House Democrats (pahouse.com)

The bill, sponsored by state Representative Roni Green of Philadelphia, passed the House unanimously in April and cleared the Senate 49-1 on October 20. Green said the measure is meant to stop renters being hit with parking charges they did not know about after moving in: "Unexpected parking fees added to monthly expenses are unethical at best and can, in extreme cases, cause people to lose their housing." The law also gives tenants recourse, allowing parking-fee disputes to be heard in court.

The signing was part of a batch of housing measures enacted on Thursday. A statewide legislative roundup reported that the laws signed that day also included a cap on rental application fees — two measures Democratic lawmakers had promoted as part of a package responding to the commonwealth's housing shortage. Two other promoted bills, which would have struck down local bans on unrelated roommates and on accessory dwelling units, were not included, the roundup said.

Source: Tioga Publishing / Spotlight PA roundup

Lawmakers also moved this week on health-workforce legislation that could affect Pennsylvania's share of the federal Rural Health Transformation Program, under which the state received $193 million last year. With the governor's signature, Pennsylvania will become the 30th state to join the national licensure compact for physician assistants, allowing those clinicians to work across state lines, according to the roundup.

For the state's large renter population — including Punjabi and South Asian families concentrated around Philadelphia, Harrisburg and the Lehigh Valley — the parking-fee rule is a straightforward consumer protection: the full parking cost of a home must now be on the table before the lease is signed, not discovered on the first month's bill.