REPORT TITLE:
Anti-Blockbusting

DESCRIPTION:
Adds familial status as a protected status in anti-blockbusting
law. (SB1151 HD1)

 
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THE SENATE                              S.B. NO.           S.D. 1
TWENTIETH LEGISLATURE, 1999                                H.D. 1
STATE OF HAWAII                                            
                                                             
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                   A  BILL  FOR  AN  ACT

RELATING TO CIVIL RIGHTS. 




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

 1      SECTION 1.  Section 515-7, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is
 
 2 amended to read as follows:  
 
 3      "�515-7  Blockbusting.  It is a discriminatory practice for
 
 4 a person, representative of a person, or a real estate broker or
 
 5 salesperson, for the purpose of inducing a real estate
 
 6 transaction from which the person, representative, or real estate
 
 7 broker or salesperson may benefit financially, because of race,
 
 8 sex, color, religion, marital status, familial status, ancestry,
 
 9 disability, age, or HIV infection:
 
10      (1)  To represent that a change has occurred or will or may
 
11           occur in the composition of the owners or occupants in
 
12           the block, neighborhood, or area in which the real
 
13           property is located[,]; or
 
14      (2)  To represent that this change will or may result in the
 
15           lowering of property values, an increase in criminal or
 
16           antisocial behavior, or a decline in the quality of
 
17           schools in the block, neighborhood, or area in which
 
18           the real property is located."
 

 
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 1      SECTION 2.  Statutory material to be repealed is bracketed.
 
 2 New statutory material is underscored.
 
 3      SECTION 3.  This Act shall take effect upon its approval. 
 

 
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