[Congressional Bills 114th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 3220 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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114th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                S. 3220

To amend the Fair Housing Act to establish that certain conduct, in or 
 around a dwelling, shall be considered to be severe or pervasive for 
purposes of determining whether a certain type of sexual harassment has 
            occurred under that Act, and for other purposes.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                             July 14, 2016

 Mrs. Shaheen introduced the following bill; which was read twice and 
    referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs

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                                 A BILL


 
To amend the Fair Housing Act to establish that certain conduct, in or 
 around a dwelling, shall be considered to be severe or pervasive for 
purposes of determining whether a certain type of sexual harassment has 
            occurred under that Act, and for other purposes.

    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 ``Combating Sexual Harassment in 
Housing Act''.

SEC. 2. SEXUAL HARASSMENT IN OR AROUND A DWELLING.

    The Fair Housing Act is amended by inserting after section 807 (42 
U.S.C. 3607) the following:

``SEC. 807A. SEXUAL HARASSMENT IN OR AROUND A DWELLING.

    ``(a) Hostile Environment Sexual Harassment.--For purposes of 
determining, under this title, whether unwelcome conduct of a sexual 
nature is sufficiently severe or pervasive to constitute a 
discriminatory housing practice based on hostile environment sexual 
harassment, any conduct described in subsection (b) that occurs in or 
around a dwelling, shall be considered to be severe or pervasive.
    ``(b) Conduct.--The conduct described in subsection (a) consists 
of--
            ``(1) an unwelcome sexual advance, including groping or 
        touching;
            ``(2) an unwelcome request for sexual favors; or
            ``(3) any other unwelcome verbal or physical conduct of a 
        sexual nature that is intended to be coercive, threatening, or 
        intimidating.''.
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