To amend the Equal Credit Opportunity Act and the Fair Housing Act to amend the statute of limitations for civil liability, and for other purposes.
United States115th CongressHR-1522House of Representatives
Updated: Mar 31, 2017
Summary
Fair Lending Discovery Clarification Act of 2017 This bill amends the statute of limitations for civil liability under the Equal Credit Opportunity Act and the Fair Housing Act to: (1) extend the period for an aggrieved person to bring an equal credit action to five years after the applicant knows or has notice that the applicant was a victim of discrimination (currently, five years after the violation); and (2) specify that the two-year period for an aggrieved person to bring a fair housing action excludes any time during which the aggrieved person did not know or have notice of the existence of the discriminatory housing practice or the breach of the conciliation agreement.
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Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committee on Financial Services, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
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Introduced in House
Referred to the Subcommittee on the Constitution and Civil Justice.
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