FINAL BILL REPORT

HB 1762

                                   C 61 L 89

BYRepresentatives Walker, Appelwick, Brekke, Wineberry, Winsley and Heavey; by request of Human Rights Commission

Prohibiting discrimination in real estate transactions against physically disabled persons who use guide dogs.

House Committe on Human Services

Senate Committee on Law & Justice

SYNOPSIS AS ENACTED

BACKGROUND:

In 1985, the Legislature added guide dogs for the physically disabled to (1) the provisions concerning protection from discrimination in admittance to public facilities, (2) the penalties for failing to adhere to those provisions, and (3) the precautions for drivers of motor vehicles approaching a pedestrian using a guide dog for the physically disabled.

Since that time, it has been discovered that there are additional areas that require expansion of anti-discrimination provisions.  It is an unfair practice to discriminate because of sex, marital status, race, creed, color, national origin, the presence of any sensory, mental, or physical handicap, or the use of a trained dog by a blind or deaf person in the processes and procedures relating to real estate transactions.

SUMMARY:

Physically disabled persons who use guide dogs or service dogs are added to the list of those protected from discrimination in real estate transactions.

VOTES ON FINAL PASSAGE:

      House 98   0

      Senate    47     0

EFFECTIVE:July 23, 1989