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INTERNAL PROTOTYPE — NOT LEGAL ADVICE — DO NOT SEND

State v. Schwab, 693 P.2d 108 (1985)

Citation
State v. Schwab, 693 P.2d 108 (1985)
Parent Document
State v. Schwab, 693 P.2d 108 (1985)
Jurisdiction
Washington (state)
Effective Date
1985-01-11

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First, nothing in the legislative history of the enactment of the Consumer Protection Act suggests that it was ever intended by the Legislature to be applied to the rental of residential housing. The Consumer Protection Act had as its genesis a study conducted by the Washington State Consumer Advisory Council, a 33-person committee appointed by the Governor and chaired by the State Attorney General. We have found nothing in the history of that committee's work, which was completed in I960,23 or in the 1961 legislative deliberations on the bill which became the Consumer Protection Act,24 which in any way suggests that the vast array of residential landlord-tenant problems were among the types of unfair, deceptive and fraudulent acts or practices that the Consumer Protection Act was intended *550to address.