2017 House Bill 4872

Expand civil rights law "protected class" status to military

Introduced in the House

Aug. 16, 2017

Introduced by Rep. Wendell Byrd (D-3)

To add “military status” to the characteristics that define membership in a protected class, against whom it is a crime to discriminate under the housing provisions of the state’s Elliott-Larsen civil rights law.

Referred to the Committee on Military and Veterans Affairs