Bill Text: MI HB4872 | 2017-2018 | 99th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Civil rights; housing discrimination; housing discrimination relating to military status; prohibit. Amends title & sec. 502 of 1976 PA 453 (MCL 37.2502).
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2017-09-06 - Bill Electronically Reproduced 08/16/2017 [HB4872 Detail]
Download: Michigan-2017-HB4872-Introduced.html
HOUSE BILL No. 4872
August 16, 2017, Introduced by Rep. Byrd and referred to the Committee on Military and Veterans Affairs.
A bill to amend 1976 PA 453, entitled
"Elliott-Larsen civil rights act,"
by amending the title and section 502 (MCL 37.2502), the title as
amended by 1992 PA 258 and section 502 as amended by 1992 PA 124.
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN ENACT:
TITLE
An act to define civil rights; to prohibit discriminatory
practices, policies, and customs in the exercise of those rights
based upon religion, race, color, national origin, age, sex,
height,
weight, familial status, or marital status, or military
status; to preserve the confidentiality of records regarding
arrest, detention, or other disposition in which a conviction does
not result; to prescribe the powers and duties of the civil rights
commission and the department of civil rights; to provide remedies
and
penalties; to provide for fees; and to repeal certain acts and
parts of acts.
Sec. 502. (1) A person engaging in a real estate transaction,
or a real estate broker or salesman, shall not on the basis of
religion, race, color, national origin, age, sex, familial status,
or
marital status, or military status of a person or a person
residing with that person:
(a) Refuse to engage in a real estate transaction with a
person.
(b) Discriminate against a person in the terms, conditions, or
privileges of a real estate transaction or in the furnishing of
facilities or services in connection with a real estate
transaction.
(c) Refuse to receive from a person or transmit to a person a
bona fide offer to engage in a real estate transaction.
(d) Refuse to negotiate for a real estate transaction with a
person.
(e) Represent to a person that real property is not available
for inspection, sale, rental, or lease when in fact it is so
available, or knowingly fail to bring a property listing to a
person's attention, or refuse to permit a person to inspect real
property, or otherwise make unavailable or deny real property to a
person.
(f) Make, print, circulate, post, mail, or otherwise cause to
be made or published a statement, advertisement, notice, or sign,
or use a form of application for a real estate transaction, or make
a record of inquiry in connection with a prospective real estate
transaction, which indicates, directly or indirectly, an intent to
make a preference, limitation, specification, or discrimination
with respect to the real estate transaction.
(g) Offer, solicit, accept, use, or retain a listing of real
property with the understanding that a person may be discriminated
against in a real estate transaction or in the furnishing of
facilities or services in connection therewith.
(h) Discriminate against a person in the brokering or
appraising of real property.
(2) A person shall not deny a person access to, or membership
or participation in, a multiple listing service, real estate
brokers' organization or other service, organization, or facility
relating to the business of selling or renting real property or to
discriminate against him or her in the terms or conditions of that
access, membership, or participation because of religion, race,
color,
national origin, age, sex, familial status, or marital
status, or military status.
(3) This section is subject to section 503.
(4) As used in this section, "military status" means the
status of being an active duty member of the Armed Forces of the
United States or a veteran who received an honorable or general
administrative discharge from active duty with the Armed Forces of
the United States.
