Rent increase notice, by state

Only 20 states have a rent-increase statute

This is the thing most guides on the subject obscure. In 20 jurisdictions there is a provision written specifically about raising rent. In the other 29 there is none — and the figure you need comes from the month-to-month termination rule, because changing the rent means ending the existing terms and offering new ones.

Both answers are correct, and they answer different questions. A page that says “Texas: no statute” is right about Texas law and useless to a Texas landlord, who still has to give 30 days. A page that says “Texas: 30 days” is operationally right but implies a rent-increase law that does not exist. The table above says both, and every state page marks which kind it is.

Figures that recently changed

Four of these moved in the last few years and the old numbers are still widely published, including in places we had them ourselves until we checked:

• Washington — 60 days to 90, by 2025 c 209 (HB 1217), effective 7 May 2025. The same Act capped increases at 7% plus CPI or 10%, whichever is less, and barred any increase in the first 12 months of a tenancy.
• Rhode Island — 30 days to 60, and 120 for a month-to-month tenant over 62, by 2024 amendments.
• Nevada — 45 days to 60, by AB 308 (2021).
• Washington, DC — 30 days to 60, by amendment.
• Connecticut — a new 45-day requirement for agreements entered, renewed or extended on or after 1 October 2024.

Tiered requirements, where the headline number is not enough

Several states scale the notice to the size of the increase or the length of the tenancy, and the single figure in the table is the base case:

• California — 30 days, but 90 where the increase exceeds 10% of the rent charged in the preceding 12 months.
• Maine — 45 days, but 75 where the increase is 10% or more, including where several increases in 12 months add up to 10%.
• New York— 30 days under one year of occupancy, 60 from one to two years, 90 at two years or more. And the requirement only bites at increases of 5% or more.
• Maryland— 90 days for terms longer than a month, 60 for a month or less, 7 or 21 days for weekly tenancies.
• Idaho— 30 days where the increase exceeds 10% in aggregate over 12 months; smaller increases fall under a 15-day lease-modification notice.

Two states we will not guess

Utah and Wyomingare missing from this page on purpose. A 45-day Utah rent-increase notice is widely reported, but we could not find it anywhere in the Utah Code — the unlawful-detainer section contains no such provision and the 2026 amendments we checked address something else. For Wyoming we could not confirm the position either way. Rather than publish a number we cannot stand behind, we have left both out until someone reads the statute.