Bill Amendment: IL HB4377 | 2025-2026 | 104th General Assembly

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Bill Title: PHA-NO WORK REQUIREMENTS

Status: 2026-05-31 - Placed on Calendar Order of Concurrence Senate Amendment(s) 1 [HB4377 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2025-HB4377-Senate_Amendment_001.html

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Sen. Graciela Guzm�n

Filed: 5/31/2026

 

 

 

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AMENDMENT TO HOUSE BILL 4377
AMENDMENT NO. ______. Amend House Bill 4377 by replacing
everything after the enacting clause with the following:
"Section 1. Short title. This Act may be cited as the
Federally Assisted Tenant Protection Act.
Section 5. Definitions. As used in this Act:
"Covered housing" means housing subsidized through a
federal housing program administered by the U.S. Department of
Housing and Urban Development, including, but not limited to:
(1) Project-based rental assistance (42 U.S.C. 1437f).
(2) Section 8 of the United States Housing Act of 1937
(42 U.S.C. 1437 et seq.), including special purpose
vouchers such as Mainstream Vouchers, Stability Vouchers,
the Housing Choice Voucher Homeownership Program,
Veteran's Affairs Supportive Housing Vouchers, the Family
Unification Program, the Foster Youth to Independence

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Program, or any other programs established by Section 8 in
a federal register notice.
(3) Project-based voucher program (42 U.S.C. 1437f).
"Covered housing provider" means a private owner, property
manager, or other entity that administers or is subsidized to
provide housing through a covered housing program.
"Time limits" means any limitation on the duration of time
within which an individual may live in covered housing.
"Work requirements" means any requirements to complete
work activities, such as working, pursuing education,
participating in a work or job training program, volunteering,
or doing community service. Work activities include, but are
not limited to, work activities defined in 42 U.S.C. 607d.
Section 10. Applicability. Every covered housing provider
and its agents that receive federal housing assistance
payments from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban
Development are subject to the provisions of this Act.
Section 15. No time limits or work requirements.
(a) Unless required by federal law or an applicable State
or federal funding program, no covered housing provider shall
establish or implement any rules, policies, or procedures that
impose time limits as a condition of initial or continued
eligibility for any covered housing or that impact the amount
of the rent subsidy or assistance provided to covered housing

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tenants. Nothing with respect to this prohibition prevents a
covered housing provider from terminating assistance or a
residential lease as authorized by federal law.
(b) Unless required by federal law or an applicable State
or federal funding program, no covered housing provider shall
establish or implement any rules, policies, or procedures that
impose work requirements as a condition of initial or
continued eligibility for any covered housing or that impact
the amount of the rent subsidy or assistance provided to
covered housing tenants.
(c) A covered housing provider may establish and implement
a voluntary employment or job training program, or encourage a
covered housing applicant or tenant to participate in a
voluntary employment or job training program, if all of the
following apply:
(1) Program participation does not impact the
applicant's or tenant's initial or continued eligibility
for the rent subsidy or assistance or the amount of rent
subsidy or assistance.
(2) The program has one or more of the following or
related goals for participants:
(A) Increasing personal income.
(B) Generating financial savings.
(C) Homeownership.
(D) Increasing financial well-being and
creditworthiness.

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(E) Increasing educational attainment.
(F) Acquiring job skills.
(G) Expanding employment options.
(d) Subsection (b) does not apply to a covered housing
provider participating in the Moving to Work demonstration
(Pub. L. 104-134, 110 Stat. 1321, 42 U.S.C. 1437f note) that
has work requirements prior to the effective date of this Act
that comply with regulations established by the U.S.
Department of Housing and Urban Development.
(e) Nothing in this Section limits or alters the operation
of the Family Self-Sufficiency Program (42 U.S.C. 1437u) or
the Public Housing Community Service Requirement (42 U.S.C.
1437j(c)).
Section 90. The Housing Authorities Act is amended by
adding Section 14.1 as follows:
(310 ILCS 10/14.1 new)
Sec. 14.1. No time limits or work requirements.
(a) As used in this Section:
"Time limits" means any limitation on the duration of time
within which an individual may live in housing or receive a
federal housing subsidy covered by this Act.
"Work requirements" means any requirements to complete
work activities, such as working, pursuing education,
participating in a work or job training program, volunteering,

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or doing community service. Work activities include, but are
not limited to, work activities defined in 42 U.S.C. 607d.
(b) Unless required by federal law or an applicable State
or federal funding program, no housing authority organized in
accordance with the provisions of this Act, or its agents,
shall impose time limits or work requirements on its tenants
or housing applicants. This prohibition shall apply to all
federally assisted housing as defined in Section 17.
(c) Unless required by federal law or an applicable State
or federal funding program, no housing authority or its agents
shall establish or implement any rules, policies, or
procedures that impose time limits as a condition of initial
or continued eligibility for any housing or that impact the
amount of the rent subsidy or assistance provided to tenants.
Nothing with respect to this prohibition prevents a housing
authority or its agents from terminating assistance or a
residential lease if authorized by federal law.
(d) Unless required by federal law or an applicable State
or federal funding program, no housing authority or its agents
shall establish or implement any rules, policies, or
procedures that impose work requirements as a condition of
initial or continued eligibility for any housing or that
impact the amount of the rent subsidy or assistance provided
to tenants.
(e) A housing authority and its agents may establish and
implement a voluntary employment or job training program, or

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encourage a housing applicant or tenant to participate in a
voluntary employment or job training program, if all of the
following apply:
(1) Program participation does not impact the
applicant's or tenant's initial or continued eligibility
for the rent subsidy or assistance or the amount of rent
subsidy or assistance.
(2) The program has one or more of the following or
related goals for participants:
(A) Increasing personal income.
(B) Generating financial savings.
(C) Homeownership.
(D) Increasing financial well-being and
creditworthiness.
(E) Increasing educational attainment.
(F) Acquiring job skills.
(G) Expanding employment options.
(f) Subsection (d) does not apply to a housing authority
participating in the Moving to Work demonstration (Pub. L.
104-134, 110 Stat. 1321, 42 U.S.C. 1437f note) that has work
requirements prior to the effective date of this Act that
comply with regulations established by the U.S. Department of
Housing and Urban Development.
(g) Nothing in this Section limits or alters the operation
of the Family Self-Sufficiency Program (42 U.S.C. 1437u) or
the Public Housing Community Service Requirement (42 U.S.C.

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1437j(c)).
Section 95. The Landlord and Tenant Act is amended by
adding Section 35 as follows:
(765 ILCS 705/35 new)
Sec. 35. Broker fees.
(a) A residential property owner, landlord, lessor, or
sublessor who retains a real estate broker or residential
leasing agent to act as an agent in the leasing of residential
real estate may not require, direct, or otherwise cause a
broker or leasing agent to seek or collect any payment, fee,
commission, or other charge from a tenant or prospective
tenant for services performed for or at the direction of the
property owner. This prohibition includes, but is not limited
to, services related to listing the property, showing the
property, screening or qualifying prospective tenants, and
preparing or executing lease documents.
(b) A residential property owner, landlord, lessor, or
sublessor may not demand or require that a tenant or
prospective tenant retain, hire, or engage a real estate
broker or residential leasing agent and pay the real estate
broker or residential leasing agent a fee or commission as a
condition to applying for or leasing a residential rental
unit. A residential property owner, landlord, lessor, or
sublessor may not demand or require that a tenant or

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prospective tenant make any payment in violation of subsection
(a).
(c) A tenant or prospective tenant alleging a violation of
this Section may bring a civil action against the person or
entity that is alleged to have violated this Section. The
court may award the tenant or prospective tenant injunctive
relief, monetary relief, attorney's fees, and costs.
(d) Nothing in this Section is intended to prohibit the
following:
(1) A residential property owner, landlord, lessor, or
sublessor from seeking or collecting an application or
screening fee from a tenant or prospective tenant.
(2) A real estate broker or residential leasing agent
from seeking or collecting any payment, fee, commission,
or other charge from the party that retained the services
of the real estate broker or residential leasing agent.
(e) This Section does not apply to a broker or residential
leasing agent who enters into a dual agency relationship with
both parties of the same lease under the requirements of
Section 15-45 of the Real Estate License Act of 2000.
Section 100. The Illinois Human Rights Act is amended by
changing Sections 3-101, 3-102, 3-102.10, 3-103, and 6-101.5
as follows:
(775 ILCS 5/3-101) (from Ch. 68, par. 3-101)

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Sec. 3-101. Definitions. The following definitions are
applicable strictly in the context of this Article:
(A) Real Property. "Real property" includes buildings,
structures, real estate, lands, tenements, leaseholds,
interests in real estate cooperatives, condominiums, and
hereditaments, corporeal and incorporeal, or any interest
therein.
(B) Real Estate Transaction. "Real estate transaction"
includes the sale, exchange, rental or lease of real property,
or any act that otherwise makes available such a transaction
or alters a person's rights to real property. "Real estate
transaction" also includes the brokering or appraising of
residential real property and the making or purchasing of
loans or providing other financial assistance:
(1) for purchasing, constructing, improving, repairing
or maintaining a dwelling; or
(2) secured by residential real estate.
(C) Housing Accommodations. "Housing accommodation"
includes any improved or unimproved real property, or part
thereof, which is used or occupied, or is intended, arranged
or designed to be used or occupied, as the home or residence of
one or more individuals.
(D) Real Estate Broker or Salesman. "Real estate broker or
salesman" means a person, whether licensed or not, who, for or
with the expectation of receiving a consideration, lists,
sells, purchases, exchanges, rents, or leases real property,

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or who negotiates or attempts to negotiate any of these
activities, or who holds oneself out as engaged in these.
(E) Familial Status. "Familial status" means one or more
individuals (who have not attained the age of 18 years) being
domiciled with:
(1) a parent or person having legal custody of such
individual or individuals; or
(2) the designee of such parent or other person having
such custody, with the written permission of such parent
or other person.
The protections afforded by this Article against
discrimination on the basis of familial status apply to any
person who is pregnant or is in the process of securing legal
custody of any individual who has not attained the age of 18
years.
(F) Conciliation. "Conciliation" means the attempted
resolution of issues raised by a charge, or by the
investigation of such charge, through informal negotiations
involving the aggrieved party, the respondent and the
Department.
(G) Conciliation Agreement. "Conciliation agreement" means
a written agreement setting forth the resolution of the issues
in conciliation.
(H) Covered Multifamily Dwellings. As used in Section
3-102.1, "covered multifamily dwellings" means:
(1) buildings consisting of 4 or more units if such

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buildings have one or more elevators; and
(2) ground floor units in other buildings consisting
of 4 or more units.
(I) Immigration Status. "Immigration status" means a
person's actual or perceived citizenship or immigration
status.
(J) Domestic violence. "Domestic violence" means the use
or attempted use of abuse as defined in Section 103 of the
Illinois Domestic Violence Act of 1986 or a pattern of any
other coercive behavior committed, enabled, or solicited to
gain or maintain power and control over a person, including
verbal, psychological, economic, or technological abuse by a
family or household member as defined in Section 103 of the
Illinois Domestic Violence Act of 1986. "Domestic violence"
includes a person's status as being a person protected under a
protective order issued under the Illinois Domestic Violence
Act of 1986, Article 112A of the Code of Criminal Procedure of
1963, the Stalking No Contact Order Act, the Civil No Contact
Order Act, or a protective order issued by a court of another
state.
(K) Sexual violence. "Sexual violence" means any act of
sexual assault or sexual abuse, including, but not limited to,
non-consensual sexual conduct or non-consensual sexual
penetration as defined in the Civil No Contact Order Act and
the offenses of stalking, aggravated stalking, criminal sexual
assault, aggravated criminal sexual assault, predatory

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criminal sexual assault of a child, criminal sexual abuse, and
aggravated criminal sexual abuse as those offenses are
described in the Criminal Code of 2012. "Sexual violence"
includes a person's status as being a person protected under a
protective order issued under the Illinois Domestic Violence
Act of 1986, Article 112A of the Code of Criminal Procedure of
1963, the Stalking No Contact Order Act, the Civil No Contact
Order Act, or a protective order issued by a court of another
state.
(L) Gender-based violence. "Gender-based violence" means
actual, attempted, threatened, or perceived domestic violence,
sexual violence, or gender-based violence. "Gender-based
violence" has the same meaning as provided in Section 2-1401
of the Code of Civil Procedure and includes domestic violence
and sexual violence as defined in this Section and stalking as
defined in the Stalking No Contact Order Act. "Gender-based
violence" includes a person's status as being a person
protected under a protective order issued under the Illinois
Domestic Violence Act of 1986, Article 112A of the Code of
Criminal Procedure of 1963, the Stalking No Contact Order Act,
the Civil No Contact Order Act, or a protective order issued by
a court of another state. The Department may create rules to
ensure gender-based violence survivor status is applied in
accordance with the legislative intent of this Act.
(Source: P.A. 103-232, eff. 1-1-24; 103-859, eff. 1-1-25.)

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(775 ILCS 5/3-102) (from Ch. 68, par. 3-102)
Sec. 3-102. Civil rights violations; real estate
transactions and other prohibited acts. It is a civil rights
violation for an owner or any other person, or for a real
estate broker or salesman, because of unlawful discrimination,
familial status, immigration status, source of income, status
as a person with a history of being a survivor of gender-based
violence, or an arrest record, as defined under subsection
(B-5) of Section 1-103, to:
(A) Transactions. Refuse to engage in a real estate
transaction or deny real property, or to discriminate in
making available such a transaction;
(B) Terms. Alter the terms, conditions or privileges
of a real estate transaction or in the furnishing of
facilities or services in connection therewith;
(C) Offers. Refuse to receive or to fail to transmit a
bona fide offer in a real estate transaction from a
person;
(D) Negotiation. Refuse to negotiate a real estate
transaction with a person;
(E) Representations. Represent to a person that real
property is not available for inspection, sale, rental, or
lease when in fact it is so available, or to fail to bring
a property listing to the person's attention, or to refuse
to permit the person to inspect real property;
(F) Publication of Intent. Make, print, circulate,

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post, mail, publish or cause to be made, printed,
circulated, posted, mailed, or published any notice,
statement, advertisement or sign, or use a form of
application for a real estate transaction, or make a
record or inquiry in connection with a prospective real
estate transaction, that indicates any preference,
limitation, or discrimination based on unlawful
discrimination or unlawful discrimination based on
familial status, immigration status, source of income,
status as a person with a history of being a survivor of
gender-based violence, or an arrest record, or an
intention to make any such preference, limitation, or
discrimination;
(G) Listings. Offer, solicit, accept, use or retain a
listing of real property with knowledge that unlawful
discrimination or discrimination on the basis of familial
status, immigration status, source of income, status as a
person with a history of being a survivor of gender-based
violence, or an arrest record in a real estate transaction
is intended.
(H) Criteria. Use criteria or methods that have the
effect of subjecting individuals to unlawful
discrimination or discrimination based on familial status,
immigration status, source of income, status as a person
with a history of being a survivor of gender-based
violence, or an arrest record in a real estate

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transaction. Such criteria or methods are unlawful under
this subsection if they are not necessary to achieve a
substantial, legitimate, non-discriminatory interest; or
if the substantial, legitimate, non-discriminatory
interest could be served by another practice that has a
less discriminatory effect.
(Source: P.A. 102-896, eff. 1-1-23; 103-232, eff. 1-1-24;
103-859, eff. 1-1-25.)
(775 ILCS 5/3-102.10)
Sec. 3-102.10. Third-party loan modification service
provider.
(A) It is a civil rights violation for a third-party loan
modification service provider, because of unlawful
discrimination, familial status, immigration status, source of
income, status as a person with a history of being a survivor
of gender-based violence, or an arrest record, to:
(1) refuse to engage in loan modification services;
(2) alter the terms, conditions, or privileges of such
services; or
(3) discriminate in making such services available,
including, but not limited to, by making a statement,
advertisement, representation, inquiry, listing, offer, or
solicitation that indicates a preference or the intention
to make such a preference in making such services
available.

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(B) For purposes of this Section, "third-party loan
modification service provider" means a person or entity,
whether licensed or not, who, for or with the expectation of
receiving consideration, provides assistance or services to a
loan borrower to obtain a modification to a term of an existing
real estate loan or to obtain foreclosure relief. "Third-party
loan modification service provider" does not include lenders,
brokers or appraisers of mortgage loans, or the servicers,
subsidiaries, affiliates, or agents of the lender.
(Source: P.A. 102-362, eff. 1-1-22; 103-232, eff. 1-1-24.)
(775 ILCS 5/3-103) (from Ch. 68, par. 3-103)
Sec. 3-103. Blockbusting. It is a civil rights violation
for any person to:
(A) Solicitation. Solicit for sale, lease, listing or
purchase any residential real estate within this State, on
the grounds of loss of value due to the present or
prospective entry into the vicinity of the property
involved of any person or persons of any particular race,
color, religion, national origin, ancestry, age, sex,
sexual orientation, marital status, familial status,
immigration status, source of income, status as a person
with a history of being a survivor of gender-based
violence, or disability.
(B) Statements. Distribute or cause to be distributed,
written material or statements designed to induce any

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owner of residential real estate in this State to sell or
lease the owner's property because of any present or
prospective changes in the race, color, religion, national
origin, ancestry, age, sex, sexual orientation, marital
status, familial status, immigration status, source of
income, status as a person with a history of being a
survivor of gender-based violence, or disability of
residents in the vicinity of the property involved.
(C) Creating Alarm. Intentionally create alarm, among
residents of any community, by transmitting communications
in any manner, including a telephone call whether or not
conversation thereby ensues, with a design to induce any
owner of residential real estate in this state to sell or
lease the owner's property because of any present or
prospective entry into the vicinity of the property
involved of any person or persons of any particular race,
color, religion, national origin, ancestry, age, sex,
sexual orientation, marital status, familial status,
immigration status, source of income, status as a person
with a history of being a survivor of gender-based
violence, or disability.
(Source: P.A. 102-896, eff. 1-1-23; 103-232, eff. 1-1-24.)
(775 ILCS 5/6-101.5)
Sec. 6-101.5. Additional civil rights violations under
Article 3. It is a civil rights violation for a person, or for

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2 or more persons, to conspire, to:
(A) retaliate against a person because the person has
opposed that which he or she reasonably and in good faith
believes to be unlawful discrimination or conduct
otherwise prohibited discrimination based on familial
status or arrest record in a real estate transaction under
Article 3, because the person has made a charge, filed a
complaint, testified, assisted, or participated in an
investigation, proceeding, or hearing under this Act, or
because the person has requested, attempted to request,
used, or attempted to use a reasonable accommodation as
allowed by this Act;
(B) aid, abet, compel, or coerce a person to commit
any violation of this Act; or
(C) willfully interfere with the performance of a duty
or the exercise of a power by the Commission or one of its
members or representatives or the Department or one of its
officers or employees.
For the purposes of this Section, "familial status" has
the same meaning as defined in Section 3-101.
(Source: P.A. 102-362, eff. 1-1-22.)
Section 999. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon
becoming law, except that Sections 95 and 100 take effect
January 1, 2027.".