S. 2549: Mapping Housing Discrimination Act

117th Congress · introduced 2021-07-29 · Housing and Community Development · Latest: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs.

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Where it came from: introduced 2021-07-29 · official record
Who proposed it: Sen. Smith, Tina [D-MN] · what a sponsor is
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Official title

Mapping Housing Discrimination Act

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Mapping Housing Discrimination Act This bill provides grants to institutions of higher education to analyze, digitize, and map historic housing discrimination records. The Department of Housing and Urban Development's Office of Policy Development and Research must use data submitted by institutions under the bill to create a publicly available national database of historic housing discrimination records. Historic housing discrimination records are (1) deeds or historic property records that demonstrate housing discrimination, or (2) state or local ordinances that permitted housing discrimination.

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Mapping Housing Discrimination Act

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Sponsor: Sen. Smith, Tina [D-MN] · 13 cosponsors

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Chris Van Hollen (D-MD), Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), Bernard Sanders (I-VT), Amy Klobuchar (D-MN), Ron Wyden (D-OR), Richard Blumenthal (D-CT), Martin Heinrich (D-NM), Christopher Murphy (D-CT), Alex Padilla (D-CA), Jon Ossoff (D-GA)

Sponsor's campaign money: Sen. Smith, Tina [D-MN] reported raising $48,878 (2025–2026). Details. Shown for context only; it does not mean any donor supported this bill.

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Congressional Research Service summary (Introduced in Senate)
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Data: GovInfo BILLSTATUS bulk data (Library of Congress), BILLSTATUS-117s2549.xml <https://www.govinfo.gov/bulkdata/BILLSTATUS/117/s>

Record fed-us-cong117-s2549 · catalog fed-us-congress-bills-cong117 · updated 2026-11-15 by psicol fed-bills-cong117