By Representative Finegold of Andover and Senator Tarr, joint petition (accompanied by bill, 1419) of Barry R. Finegold and others relative to prohibiting discrimination in the rental, lease or sale of housing or housing units in the Commonwealth. The Judiciary.

The Commonwealth of Massachusetts

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PETITION OF:

Barry R. Finegold

Bruce E. Tarr

John P. Fresolo

William Lantigua

Steven M. Walsh

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In the Year Two Thousand and Seven.

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An Act relative to classes protected from discrimination.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:

SECTION 1.  Subsection 6 of section 4 of chapter 151B of the General Laws, as appearing in the 2004 Official Edition, is hereby amended by inserting after the word “ancestry,” in line 165, the following words: - lawful source of income.