Bills · 2021-2022 Regular Session
Relating to: discrimination in housing based on prior eviction and providing a penalty. (FE)
Discrimination in housing Landlord and tenant Workforce development department of
- Introduced, stopped here
- Passes Assembly, not reached
- Passes Senate, not reached
- Governor signs, not reached
- Law, not reached
Unfamiliar terms? Glossary
What this bill does
Plain-language analysis by the nonpartisan Legislative Reference Bureau
This bill provides that it is discrimination under the state open housing law for
any person to do any of the following:
1. Inquire, whether orally or in writing, of a prospective tenant or any other
individual about any eviction of a prospective tenant that occurred more than five
years prior. The bill prohibits a person from asking a prospective tenant about prior
evictions unless the person informs the prospective tenant that the prospective
tenant does not need to disclose evictions more than five years old.
2. Refuse to rent housing to an individual, or otherwise treat an individual
unequally in the terms, conditions, or privileges of rental of housing, because the
individual was evicted from housing more than five years before the date of a rental
application.
The open housing law is administered by the Department of Workforce
Development, which receives, investigates, and evaluates complaints of violations
and may order relief in appropriate cases. Persons who allege a violation of the open
housing law may also bring a civil action.
Sponsors
Introduced by: Hebl (D)
Full history
- Mar 10, 2022 · Assembly
Introduced by Representative Hebl
- Mar 10, 2022 · Assembly
Read first time and referred to Committee on Rules
- Mar 15, 2022 · Assembly
Failed to pass pursuant to Senate Joint Resolution 1