General Assembly Committee Bill No. 6874
January Session, 2017 LCO No. 4631
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Referred to Committee on HOUSING
Introduced by:
(HSG)
General Assembly
Committee Bill No. 6874
January Session, 2017
LCO No. 4631
*_____HB06874HSG___030817____*
Referred to Committee on HOUSING
Introduced by:
(HSG)
AN ACT CONCERNING THE TIMING OF DISCLOSURE OF HOUSING DISCRIMINATION AND FAIR HOUSING LAWS TO PROSPECTIVE PURCHASERS OF CERTAIN RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Assembly convened:
Section 1. Section 20-327h of the general statutes is repealed and the following is substituted in lieu thereof (Effective October 1, 2017):
(a) On or before July 1, 2016, the Commission on Human Rights and Opportunities shall create a one-page disclosure form, written in plain language and in an easily readable and understandable format, containing information on housing discrimination and federal and state fair housing laws, and make such disclosure form available to the public on the Internet web site for the Commission on Human Rights and Opportunities. Said commission shall review and update this disclosure form as necessary.
(b) [Commencing sixty days after the date on which the Commission on Human Rights and Opportunities makes a disclosure form available pursuant to subsection (a) of this section, each] Each person who offers a residential property containing two or more units in the state for sale, exchange or for lease with option to buy shall [attach a photocopy, duplicate original, facsimile transmission or other exact reproduction or duplicate of such disclosure form, signed by the] (1) require that any prospective purchaser [, to] of such property sign a copy of the disclosure form described in subsection (a) of this section at the time such purchaser enters into any purchase agreement, option or lease containing a purchase option, and (2) provide to the prospective purchaser a photocopy, duplicate original, facsimile transmission or other exact reproduction or duplicate of such signed disclosure form at the time of closing.
(c) Failure on the part of the person who offers the property for sale, exchange or lease with option to buy to [attach] comply with the [disclosure form required by] requirements of subsection (b) of this section shall not void an otherwise valid purchase agreement, option or lease containing a purchase option.
This act shall take effect as follows and shall amend the following sections:
Section 1 October 1, 2017 20-327h
This act shall take effect as follows and shall amend the following sections:
Section 1
October 1, 2017
20-327h
HSG Joint Favorable
HSG
Joint Favorable