To amend the Fair Housing Act to provide an exemption for any person seeking to enter into a shared living arrangement with a person sharing similar religious opinions or religious beliefs, and for other purposes.

Amends the Fair Housing Act to exempt any person who prints or publishes a notice seeking to enter into a shared living arrangement with a person sharing similar religious opinions or beliefs from the prohibition against notices, statements, or advertisements, with respect to the sale or rental of a dwelling, that indicate a preference, limitation, or discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, handicap, familial status, or national origin. Defines "shared living arrangement" as an agreement in which occupants of a dwelling share living space within the dwelling.

[Congressional Bills 111th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 6440 Introduced in House (IH)]

111th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 6440

 To amend the Fair Housing Act to provide an exemption for any person 
seeking to enter into a shared living arrangement with a person sharing 
    similar religious opinions or religious beliefs, and for other 
                               purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           November 18, 2010

 Mr. Hoekstra 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 provide an exemption for any person 
seeking to enter into a shared living arrangement with a person sharing 
    similar religious opinions or religious beliefs, and for other 
                               purposes.

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

SECTION 1. AMENDMENT TO PROVIDE SHARED LIVING EXEMPTION.

    Section 807 of the Fair Housing Act (42 U.S.C. 3607) is amended by 
adding at the end the following:
    ``(c) Section 804(c) shall not apply to any notice, statement, or 
advertisement that indicates a preference by any person to enter into a 
shared living arrangement with a person sharing similar religious 
opinions or religious beliefs.
    ``(d) For purposes of this section, the term `shared living 
arrangement' means an agreement in which the occupants of a dwelling 
share living space within the dwelling.''.
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