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Committees advance HB 1700 with ADA, Fair Housing safeguards and reporting

Senate joint committees (Energy Intergovernmental Affairs; Health and Human Services; Housing) · March 20, 2026
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Summary

Senate joint committees voted to pass HB 1700 with amendments adding explicit protections that expedited permitting must not compromise the Americans with Disabilities Act or the Fair Housing Act, and creating reporting requirements to track project numbers, types and geographic distribution during the pilot period.

Senate joint committees on housing, health and human services, and energy advanced HB 1700 on March 19, approving amendments that add civil-rights safeguards and data reporting to an expedited permitting pilot for housing.

The committees adopted two substantive changes: language explicitly stating that any permitting expediting “is not going to come [to] compromise the Americans with Disabilities Act or the Fair Housing Act,” and a…

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