Promoting and supporting the goals and ideals of the Fair Housing Act and recognizing April 2017 as Fair Housing Month, which includes bringing attention to the discrimination faced by every-day Americans in the United States in housing and housing-related transactions on the basis of race, color, national origin, sex, familial status, disability, and religion.

H. Res. 291 · 115th Congress · Apr 27, 2017 · Lineage

RESOLUTION

That the House of Representatives—

(1)

supports the goals and values of the 49th anniversary of the enactment of the Fair Housing Act (42 U.S.C. 3601 et seq.) and the 29th anniversary of the enactment of the Fair Housing Amendments Act of 1988 (Public Law 100–430; 102 Stat. 1619);

(2)

supports activities to recognize and celebrate the important historical milestones represented by the anniversaries of the enactment of the Fair Housing Act and the enactment of the Fair Housing Amendments Act of 1988; and

(3)

encourages all people and levels of government to rededicate themselves to the enforcement and the ideals of fair housing laws.

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Apr 27, 2017viewing Introduced in House Mr. Al Green of Texas (for himself, Mr. Cleaver, Mr. Meeks, Mr. Quigley, Mr. Danny K. Davis of Illinois, Mr. Lewis of Georgia, Mr. Bishop of Georgia, Mr. Carson of Indiana, Mr. Clay, Mr. Butterfield, Ms. Norton, Mr. Rush, Mr. Ellison, Ms. Plaskett, Mr. Beyer, Ms. Jayapal, Mr. Conyers, Ms. Adams, Ms. Wasserman Schultz, Mr. Raskin, Ms. Velázquez, Ms. Maxine Waters of California, Ms. Moore, Ms. Wilson of Florida, Ms. Schakowsky, Ms. Lee, Mr. Grijalva, Mrs. Beatty, Mr. Gonzalez of Texas, Ms. Fudge, Ms. Kelly of Illinois, Mr. Higgins of New York, Mr. Gutiérrez, Mr. Richmond, Mr. Hastings, Mr. McNerney, Mr. Johnson of Georgia, Mr. Smith of Washington, Mrs. Lawrence, and Ms. Shea-Porter) submitted the following resolution; which was referred to the Committee on the Judiciary

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