It shall be an unfair practice to use the sex, race, creed, color, national origin, citizenship or immigration status, marital status, honorably discharged veteran or military status, sexual orientation, or the presence of any sensory, mental, or physical disability of any person, or the use of a trained dog guide or service animal by a person with a disability, concerning an application for credit in any credit transaction to determine the creditworthiness of an applicant.
RCW 49.60.175
Unfair practices of financial institutions.
Known as the Washington State Civil Rights Act
The act spans §§ 49–49 (66 sections).
Applied in 7 court decisions — leading case Marquis v. City of Spokane (1996)
Most recently applied in 148 Wash. 2d 224 - > FRATERNAL ORDER OF EAGLES, TENINO AERIE NO. 564 v. Grand Aerie of Fraternal Order of Eagles (December 2002)
2020 c 52 s 7; 2007 c 187 s 7; 2006 c 4 s 7; 1997 c 271 s 7; 1993 c 510 s 9; 1979 c 127 s 4; 1977 ex.s. c 301 s 14; 1973 c 141 s 9; 1959 c 68 s 1.
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Court decisions citing this, by year. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.
Official source: Washington State Legislature. Reproduced from public-domain Washington statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.