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2020 SESSION
SB 97 Virginia Fair Housing Law; unlawful discriminatory housing practices, effective clause.
Introduced by: Jennifer L. McClellan | all patrons ... notes | add to my profiles
SUMMARY AS PASSED SENATE: (all summaries)
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, or handicap. The bill also 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, because a 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, unless the location of a development or proposed development is, at the time of municipal decision, within a census tract wherein more than 50 percent of the residential units house families or individuals at or below 80 percent of the area median income. The provisions of the bill are contingent on funding in a general appropriation act.
FULL TEXT
- 12/04/19 Senate: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/08/20 20101209D pdf | impact statement
- 01/29/20 Senate: Committee substitute printed 20107057D-S1 pdf | impact statement
- 02/11/20 Senate: Printed as engrossed 20107057D-ES1 pdf | impact statement
- 02/18/20 House: Committee substitute printed 20108615D-H1 pdf | impact statement
AMENDMENTS
HISTORY
- 12/04/19 Senate: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/08/20 20101209D
- 12/04/19 Senate: Referred to Committee on General Laws and Technology
- 01/29/20 Senate: Reported from General Laws and Technology with substitute (14-Y 0-N)
- 01/29/20 Senate: Committee substitute printed 20107057D-S1
- 01/29/20 Senate: Rereferred to Finance and Appropriations
- 02/06/20 Senate: Reported from Finance and Appropriations with amendment (16-Y 0-N)
- 02/10/20 Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (36-Y 0-N)
- 02/11/20 Senate: Read second time
- 02/11/20 Senate: Reading of substitute waived
- 02/11/20 Senate: Committee substitute agreed to 20107057D-S1
- 02/11/20 Senate: Reading of amendment waived
- 02/11/20 Senate: Committee amendment agreed to
- 02/11/20 Senate: Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute with amendment SB97ES1
- 02/11/20 Senate: Printed as engrossed 20107057D-ES1
- 02/11/20 Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N)
- 02/11/20 Senate: Read third time and passed Senate (38-Y 2-N)
- 02/14/20 House: Placed on Calendar
- 02/14/20 House: Read first time
- 02/14/20 House: Referred to Committee on General Laws
- 02/18/20 House: Reported from General Laws with substitute (12-Y 9-N)
- 02/18/20 House: Committee substitute printed 20108615D-H1
- 02/20/20 House: Read second time
- 02/21/20 House: Motion to rerefer to committee agreed to
- 02/21/20 House: Rereferred to General Laws
- 02/27/20 House: Continued to 2021 in General Laws by voice vote