California House Passes Housing Discrimination Bill

On Thursday, the California Assembly, by a bipartisan vote of 48-31, passed and sent on to the Senate, the Civil Rights Housing Act of 2006 (AB 2800). The bill strengthens and standardizes 17 housing discrimination provisions in California law. The bill prohibits discrimination on the basis of religion, as well as on the basis of a number of other characteristics, according to a press release issued Saturday by Equality California.