[Congressional Bills 105th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 4827 Introduced in House (IH)]

  2d Session
                                H. R. 4827

To amend the Fair Housing Act to provide an exemption for restrictions 
on the occupancy of group homes by persons convicted of certain crimes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            October 13, 1998

   Mr. Smith of New Jersey 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 an exemption for restrictions 
on the occupancy of group homes by persons convicted of certain crimes.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Safe Neighborhood Act of 1998''.

SEC. 2. OCCUPANCY OF GROUP HOMES BY CERTAIN CRIMINALS.

    Section 807 of the Fair Housing Act (42 U.S.C. 3607) is amended by 
adding at the end the following:
    ``(c) Nothing in this title limits the applicability of any 
reasonable local, State, or Federal restriction on the occupancy of 
group homes by persons convicted of crimes for which a term or 
imprisonment was imposed.''.
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