This page contains bill sponsorships in the Senate and House.
Bill sponsorships indicate the topics that legislators are most interested in, and spend the most time on.
Bill Sponsorship: Housing Fairness Act
Source: H.R. 284
This Act may be cited as the 'Veterans, Women, Families with Children, and Persons With Disabilities Housing Fairness Act of 2011'. Instructs the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) to conduct a nationwide testing program to: - detect and document differences in the treatment of persons seeking to rent or purchase housing or obtain or refinance a home mortgage loan;
- measure patterns of adverse treatment because of the race, color, religion, sex, familial status, disability status, or national origin of a renter, home buyer, or borrower; and
- measure the prevalence of such discriminatory practices across housing and mortgage lending markets.
Updated to include 2017 version, H.R.149
Participating counts on VoteMatch question 2.
Question 2: Legally require hiring women & minorities
Scores: -2=Strongly oppose; -1=Oppose; 0=neutral; 1=Support; 2=Strongly support.
- Topic: Civil Rights
- Headline: Investigate mortgage discrimination in veterans & disabled
(Score: 1)
- Headline 2: Sponsored bill to investigate mortgage discrimination
- Key for participation codes:
- Sponsorships: p=sponsored; o=co-sponsored; s=signed
- Memberships: c=chair; m=member; e=endorsed; f=profiled; s=scored
- Resolutions: i=introduced; w=wrote; a=adopted
- Cases: w=wrote; j=joined; d=dissented; c=concurred
- Surveys: '+' supports; '-' opposes.
Republicans
participating in 11-HR284 |
Independents
participating in 11-HR284 |
Total recorded by OnTheIssues:
Democrats:
14
Republicans:
0
Independents:
0 |
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