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Bills · 2023-2024 Regular Session

SB 634

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Relating to: discrimination in housing based on prior eviction and providing a penalty. (FE)

Discrimination in housing Disease Landlord and tenant Workforce development department of

  1. Introduced, stopped here
  2. Passes Senate, not reached
  3. Passes Assembly, not reached
  4. Governor signs, not reached
  5. 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.

What it would cost

Fiscal estimates filed by state agencies, as official PDFs

Sponsors

Introduced by: Agard (D) , Hesselbein (D) , L. Johnson (D) , Larson (D) , Smith (D) , Spreitzer (D) , Taylor (D)

21 cosponsors

Baldeh (D) , Billings (D) , C. Anderson (D) , Cabrera (D) , Clancy (D) , Conley (D) , Drake (D) , Emerson (D) , J. Anderson (D) , Jacobson (D) , Joers (D) , Madison (D) , Moore Omokunde (D) , Ohnstad (D) , Palmeri (D) , Ratcliff (D) , Shelton (D) , Sinicki (D) , Snodgrass (D) , Stubbs (D) , Vining (D)

Full history

  1. Nov 7, 2023 · Senate

    Introduced by Senators Smith, L. Johnson, Spreitzer, Hesselbein, Agard, Larson and Taylor; cosponsored by Representatives Ratcliff, Joers, Drake, Stubbs, Conley, Snodgrass, Cabrera, Emerson, Shelton, Sinicki, Baldeh, Clancy, Madison, Palmeri, Ohnstad, Billings, Moore Omokunde, C. Anderson, J. Anderson, Jacobson and Vining

  2. Nov 7, 2023 · Senate

    Read first time and referred to Committee on Housing, Rural Issues and Forestry

  3. Jan 2, 2024 · Senate

    Fiscal estimate received

  4. Apr 15, 2024 · Senate

    Failed to pass pursuant to Senate Joint Resolution 1