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2019 SESSION
SB 1062 Virginia Fair Housing Law; unlawful discriminatory housing practices.
Introduced by: Jennifer L. McClellan | all patrons ... notes | add to my profiles
SUMMARY AS INTRODUCED:
Virginia Fair Housing Law; unlawful discriminatory housing practices. Provides that it is an unlawful discriminatory housing practice for any political jurisdiction or its employees or appointed commissions to discriminate in the application of local land use ordinances or guidelines, or in the permitting of housing developments, on the basis of race, color, religion, national origin, sex, elderliness, familial status, handicap, or because the housing development contains or is expected to contain affordable housing units occupied or intended for occupancy by families or individuals with incomes at or below 80 percent of the median income of the area where the housing development is located or is proposed to be located. The bill also requires the Fair Housing Board, after consultation with the Attorney General, instead of issuing a charge for a violation, to immediately refer the matter to the Attorney General for civil action in the appropriate circuit court for appropriate relief. The bill contains technical amendments.
FULL TEXT
- 12/07/18 Senate: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/09/19 19100519D pdf | impact statement
- 01/17/19 Senate: Printed as engrossed 19100519D-E pdf | impact statement
AMENDMENTS
HISTORY
- 12/07/18 Senate: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/09/19 19100519D
- 12/07/18 Senate: Referred to Committee on General Laws and Technology
- 01/14/19 Senate: Reported from General Laws and Technology (13-Y 1-N)
- 01/16/19 Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N)
- 01/17/19 Senate: Passed by temporarily
- 01/17/19 Senate: Read second time
- 01/17/19 Senate: Reading of amendments waived
- 01/17/19 Senate: Amendments by Senator McClellan agreed to
- 01/17/19 Senate: Engrossed by Senate as amended SB1062E
- 01/17/19 Senate: Printed as engrossed 19100519D-E
- 01/18/19 Senate: Read third time and passed Senate (36-Y 4-N)
- 01/22/19 House: Placed on Calendar
- 01/22/19 House: Read first time
- 01/22/19 House: Referred to Committee on General Laws
- 02/19/19 House: Left in General Laws