Fair Building Act of 2000

Fair Building Act of 2000 - Amends the Fair Housing Act to exempt from multi-family housing handicapped access design and construction (anti-discriminatory) requirements an individual dwelling unit that is readily convertible, and is so converted upon the request of a potential occupant.

[Congressional Bills 106th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 5557 Introduced in House (IH)]







106th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 5557

 To amend the Fair Housing Act to modify certain requirements for the 
        design and construction of certain multifamily housing.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            October 25, 2000

 Mr. Sanford introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                       Committee on the Judiciary

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                                 A BILL


 
 To amend the Fair Housing Act to modify certain requirements for the 
        design and construction of certain multifamily housing.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Fair Building Act of 2000''.

SEC. 2. FAIR HOUSING ACT AMENDMENT.

    Section 804 of the Fair Housing Act is amended--
            (1) in subsection (f)(2)(C), by inserting ``except as 
        provided in paragraph (10),'' after ``(C)''; and
            (2) by adding at the end the following:
    ``(10) The requirements of paragraph (3)(C) shall not apply with 
respect to any individual dwelling unit that has been so designed and 
constructed that it can readily be converted to comply with those 
requirements, and is so converted upon the request of a potential 
occupant of that particular unit.''.
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