To amend the Fair Housing Act to provide that it is unlawful for any person engaging in a residential real estate-related transaction to discriminate against any person in making available such a transaction, or in the terms or conditions of such a transaction, because all or part of the person's income derives from a source located in Puerto Rico or any other territory of the United States, and for other purposes.

This bill amends the Fair Housing Act to prohibit, in real estate-related transactions, discrimination against an individual on the basis that the individual's income is derived from a source located in Puerto Rico or another U.S. territory.

[Congressional Bills 115th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 6209 Introduced in House (IH)]

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115th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 6209

 To amend the Fair Housing Act to provide that it is unlawful for any 
  person engaging in a residential real estate-related transaction to 
discriminate against any person in making available such a transaction, 
  or in the terms or conditions of such a transaction, because all or 
  part of the person's income derives from a source located in Puerto 
    Rico or any other territory of the United States, and for other 
                               purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             June 25, 2018

Miss Gonzalez-Colon of Puerto Rico 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 that it is unlawful for any 
  person engaging in a residential real estate-related transaction to 
discriminate against any person in making available such a transaction, 
  or in the terms or conditions of such a transaction, because all or 
  part of the person's income derives from a source located in Puerto 
    Rico or any other territory of the United States, 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. MORTGAGE LENDERS PROHIBITED FROM DISCRIMINATING AGAINST 
              INDIVIDUALS WITH INCOME DERIVED FROM A SOURCE LOCATED IN 
              PUERTO RICO.

    Section 805(a) of the Fair Housing Act (42 U.S.C. 3605(a)) is 
amended by inserting before the period at the end the following: ``, or 
because all or part of the person's income derives from a source 
located in Puerto Rico or any other territory of the United States''.
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