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Committee advances bill allowing narrowly defined single‑sex private housing designations amid heated testimony
Summary
Representative Shallenberger’s HB 4046 would let landlords or shared‑housing operators advertise and screen for single‑sex occupancy based on birth sex in narrowly defined shared-living settings; testimony flagged potential conflicts with the federal Fair Housing Act and urged stronger notice requirements. The committee passed the bill with a favorable recommendation (recorded in the transcript as 10‑3).
Representative Shallenberger told the House Business, Labor and Commerce Committee that House Bill 4046 is a narrow expansion of prior legislation covering public university dormitories to a limited set of private, shared‑living arrangements. "If it's advertised as an all female housing or all male housing ... the intent is that you were born as a woman or you were born as a male," the sponsor said, describing the draft as targeted toward dormitories, boarding houses and other group living accommodations with shared intimate spaces.
Committee members pressed the sponsor on legal risks and disclosure. Representative Ivory asked…
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