1. (a) It shall be unlawful for a person to refuse to sell or rent a dwelling to a person who has made a bona fide offer, because of race, color, religion, sex, familial status, or national origin, or to refuse to negotiate with a person for the sale or rental of a dwelling because of race, color, religion, sex, familial status, or national origin, or to discriminate against any person in the sale or rental of a dwelling because of disability.

2. (b) Prohibited actions under this section include, but are not limited to:

   1. (1) failing to accept or consider a bona fide offer because of race, color, religion, sex, disability, familial status, or national origin;
   2. (2) refusing to sell or rent a dwelling to, or to negotiate for the sale or rental of a dwelling with, any person because of race, color, religion, sex, disability, familial status, or national origin;
   3. (3) imposing different sales prices or rental charges for the sale or rental of a dwelling upon any person because of race, color, religion, sex, disability, familial status, or national origin;
   4. (4) using different qualification criteria or applications, or sale or rental standards or procedures, such as income standards, application requirements, application fees, credit analysis, or sale or rental approval procedures or other requirements, because of race, color, religion, sex, disability, familial status, or national origin;
   5. (5) evicting tenants because of their race, color, religion, sex, disability, familial status, or national origin or because of the race, color, religion, sex, disability, familial status, or national origin of a tenant's guest.

Source Note:The provisions of this §819.192 adopted to be effective April 13, 1990, 15 TexReg 1843; amended to be effective September 17, 2001, 26 TexReg 7124; transferred effective March 1, 2004, as published in the Texas Register April 9, 2004, 29 TexReg 3653.