Section 46a-64c

Citation: Section 46a-64c
Parent Document: Commission on Human Rights & Opportunities v. Sullivan Associates, 250 Conn. 763 (1999)
Jurisdiction: Connecticut (state)
Effective Date: 1999-10-12
Original Source: https://www.courtlistener.com/opinion/7898215/commission-on-human-rights-oppo... ↗

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During the discussion of House Bill No. 5916 on the floor of the House of Representatives, moreover, Representative Taborsak stated: “When a [prospective] tenant lists his or her income on a rental application and all or part of that income is derived from one or more of these programs, he or she may not be rejected or denied a full and equal opportunity for that public accommodation based solely on the presence of that income. Tenants may be rejected for other valid reasons. For no apparent or steady source of income. For insufficient income. . . . [F]or poor credit . . . .” (Emphasis added.) 32 H.R. Proc., supra, pp. 8776-77. During that same discussion, Representative Richard O. Belden stated: “[W]e are going to say that an individual landlord can’t consider whether or not the person is employed or where their source of income is coming from in *798the consideration of whether or not he wants to rent somebody a house.” (Emphasis added.) Id., p. 8778. Representative Walter S. Brooks similarly explained the need for the proposed legislation: “[L]andlords consistently say that T don’t want you in this housing because, not that you don’t have enough money, but because I disagree with your source of money. And I don’t care if that source of money is the state or federal government, I don’t want it.’ ” (Emphasis added.) Id., p. 8788. The remarks of Representatives Taborsak, Belden and Brooks reveal that in enacting P.A. 89-288, the legislature recognized a distinction between the source of an applicant’s income and the amount of an applicant’s income, and that § 46a-64c was intended only to prohibit a landlord from discriminating on the basis of source of income, and not on the basis of amount of income. I would conclude, therefore, that discrimination on the basis of the level of income is not a practice prohibited by § 46a-64c.

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