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AN ACT CONCERNING PROTECTIONS FOR RESIDENTIAL TENANTS. To (1) require a landlord to provide to a tenant an accounting of charges, payments and balances owed, (2) require a landlord to apply rent payments to current rent before arrearages, (3) prohibit a landlord from requiring a tenant to pay a surcharge for a month-to-month lease or holding over beyond the term of the lease, (4) require a landlord to provide written notice to a tenant that such tenant is entitled to file a complaint with a fair rent commission to dispute a rent increase, (5) require a landlord to provide a tenant with an application for admission as an elector, and (6) establish as an unfair trade practice a landlord marketing a lease containing provisions that are contrary to state law.