[Congressional Bills 115th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 1601 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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115th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                S. 1601

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 20, 2017

Mrs. Shaheen (for herself, Ms. Klobuchar, Mr. Franken, and Ms. Harris) 
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 ``Combat 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 incident of 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) unwelcome touching of a sexual nature or groping; or
            ``(2) any other unwelcome conduct of a sexual nature that 
        is intended to be coercive, threatening, or intimidating.''.
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