Tenants rights organizers are pushing back on a New Hampshire bill that would allow landlords to more easily evict people at the end of a lease.

Under current state law, landlords have to give a legally justified reason for an eviction, which could include failure to pay rent, or a “good” cause related to financial or business purposes. The New Hampshire Supreme Court upheld that interpretation in a tenant-landlord case in 2005.

But Rep. Robert Lynn, a Windham Republican who is sponsoring the bill that would loosen the state’s eviction rules, said it’s needed to protect landlords’ contractual and property rights in a lease agreement. The legislation, HB 117, passed earlier this month in a House vote and is now under consideration in the Senate.

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