10 U.S.C. § 2892a — Access by tenants to historical maintenance information

(a) Maintenance Information for Prospective Tenants .— The Secretary concerned must require each eligible entity or subsequent landlord that offers for lease a housing unit to provide to a prospective tenant of the housing unit— (1) no later than five business days before the prospective tenant is asked to sign the lease, a summary of maintenance conducted about that housing unit for the previous seven years; and (2) no later than two business days after the prospective tenant requests additional information regarding maintenance conducted about that housing unit during that period, all information possessed by the eligible entity or subsequent landlord regarding that maintenance conducted during that period. (b) Maintenance Information for Existing Tenants .— A tenant of a housing unit who did not receive maintenance information described in subsection (a) regarding that housing unit while a prospective tenant can request that maintenance information and must receive that maintenance information no later than five business days after the making the request. (c) Maintenance Defined .— In the section, the term “maintenance” includes any renovations of the housing unit during the period specified in subsection (a)(1).