Senate Bill 20-108 Summary

• Creates the "Immigrant Tenant Protection Act" prohibiting landlords from demanding, requesting, or collecting information about a tenant's immigration or citizenship status, with an exception for landlords who are also employers collecting required employment forms.

• Prohibits landlords from disclosing or threatening to disclose a tenant's immigration or citizenship status to any person, entity, or immigration/law enforcement agency.

• Prohibits landlords from harassing, intimidating, retaliating against, or interfering with tenants based on immigration or citizenship status, and from refusing to lease or evicting based solely or in part on such status.

• Allows tenants to bring civil actions for violations, seeking compensatory damages, civil penalties up to $2,000 per violation, attorney fees and costs, and other equitable relief; makes immigration status inadmissible in housing-related civil proceedings unless the tenant raises it as a direct claim or federal law compliance requires it.

• Effective January 1, 2021, with the act subject to referendum petition within the ninety-day period after final adjournment of the 2020 legislative session.