Report Title:

Real Property Rentals; Discrimination; Housing Assistance

 

Description:

Prohibits owners, lessors, or others offering to lease housing accommodations from discriminating against potential tenants who are recipients of federal section 8 tenant-based housing assistance or any other federal, state, or county housing subsidies.

 

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

H.B. NO.

44

TWENTY-SECOND LEGISLATURE, 2003

 

STATE OF HAWAII

 


 

A BILL FOR AN ACT

 

relating to discrimination in real property.

 

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF HAWAII:

SECTION 1. Chapter 515, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended by adding a new section to be appropriately designated and to read as follows:

"§515- Discrimination in housing assistance. It is a discriminatory practice for an owner, lessor, a representative of the owner or lessor, or any other person offering to lease housing accommodations to refuse to furnish credit, services, or rental accommodations to any individual who is a recipient of federal section 8 tenant-based housing assistance, or any other federal, state, or county housing subsidies assistance, including rental assistance or rental supplements, because the individual is such a recipient, or because of any requirement of rental assistance or housing subsidy program."

SECTION 2. Section 515-4, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended by amending subsection (a) to read as follows:

"(a) [Section] Sections 515-3 [does] and 515- do not apply:

(1) To the rental of a housing accommodation in a building which contains housing accommodations for not more than two families living independently of each other if the lessor resides in one of the housing accommodations; or

(2) To the rental of a room or up to four rooms in a housing accommodation by an individual if the individual resides therein."

SECTION 3. Statutory material to be repealed is bracketed and stricken. New statutory material is underscored.

SECTION 4. This Act shall take effect upon its approval.

INTRODUCED BY:

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