Bill Amendment: IL SB0613 | 2025-2026 | 104th General Assembly

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Bill Title: HUMAN RIGHTS-TECH

Status: 2025-06-02 - Rule 3-9(a) / Re-referred to Assignments [SB0613 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2025-SB0613-Senate_Amendment_001.html

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Sen. Graciela Guzm�n

Filed: 5/7/2025

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AMENDMENT TO SENATE BILL 613
AMENDMENT NO. ______. Amend Senate Bill 613 by replacing
everything after the enacting clause with the following:
"Section 5. The Illinois Human Rights Act is amended by
changing Sections 1-101.1, 1-102, and 1-103 as follows:
(775 ILCS 5/1-101.1)
Sec. 1-101.1. Construction. Nothing in this Act shall be
construed as requiring any employer, employment agency, or
labor organization to give preferential treatment or special
rights based on sexual orientation or to implement affirmative
action policies or programs based on sexual orientation.
Nothing in this Act shall be construed as permitting an
individual to be subjected to unlawful discrimination through
the use of artificial intelligence as defined in Section 2-101
of this Act.
(Source: P.A. 93-1078, eff. 1-1-06.)

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(775 ILCS 5/1-102) (from Ch. 68, par. 1-102)
Sec. 1-102. Declaration of policy. It is the public policy
of this State:
(A) Freedom from Unlawful Discrimination. To secure
for all individuals within Illinois the freedom from
discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex,
national origin, ancestry, age, order of protection
status, marital status, physical or mental disability,
military status, sexual orientation, pregnancy,
reproductive health decisions, or unfavorable discharge
from military service in connection with employment, real
estate transactions, access to financial credit, and the
availability of public accommodations, including in
elementary, secondary, and higher education. This includes
the use of artificial intelligence as a means to
accomplish or support the unlawful discrimination of an
individual as defined in Section 2-101 of this Act.
(B) Freedom from Sexual Harassment-Employment and
Elementary, Secondary, and Higher Education. To prevent
sexual harassment in employment and sexual harassment in
elementary, secondary, and higher education.
(C) Freedom from Discrimination Based on Citizenship
Status-Employment. To prevent discrimination based on
citizenship status in employment.
(C-5) Freedom from Discrimination Based on Work

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Authorization Status-Employment. To prevent
discrimination based on the specific status or term of
status that accompanies a legal work authorization.
(D) Freedom from Discrimination Based on Familial
Status or Source of Income-Real Estate Transactions. To
prevent discrimination based on familial status or source
of income in real estate transactions.
(E) Public Health, Welfare and Safety. To promote the
public health, welfare and safety by protecting the
interest of all people in Illinois in maintaining personal
dignity, in realizing their full productive capacities,
and in furthering their interests, rights and privileges
as citizens of this State.
(F) Implementation of Constitutional Guarantees. To
secure and guarantee the rights established by Sections
17, 18 and 19 of Article I of the Illinois Constitution of
1970.
(G) Equal Opportunity, Affirmative Action. To
establish Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action as the
policies of this State in all of its decisions, programs
and activities, and to assure that all State departments,
boards, commissions and instrumentalities rigorously take
affirmative action to provide equality of opportunity and
eliminate the effects of past discrimination in the
internal affairs of State government and in their
relations with the public.

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(H) Unfounded Charges. To protect citizens of this
State against unfounded charges of prohibited
discrimination in employment, real estate transactions,
financial credit, and public accommodations, including in
elementary, secondary, and higher education.
(Source: P.A. 102-233, eff. 8-2-21; 102-896, eff. 1-1-23;
103-472, eff. 8-1-24; 103-785, eff. 1-1-25.)
(775 ILCS 5/1-103) (from Ch. 68, par. 1-103)
Sec. 1-103. General definitions. When used in this Act,
unless the context requires otherwise, the term:
(A) Age. "Age" means the chronological age of a person who
is at least 40 years old, except with regard to any practice
described in Section 2-102, insofar as that practice concerns
training or apprenticeship programs. In the case of training
or apprenticeship programs, for the purposes of Section 2-102,
"age" means the chronological age of a person who is 18 but not
yet 40 years old.
(B) Aggrieved party. "Aggrieved party" means a person who
is alleged or proved to have been injured by a civil rights
violation or believes he or she will be injured by a civil
rights violation under Article 3 that is about to occur.
(B-5) Arrest record. "Arrest record" means:
(1) an arrest not leading to a conviction;
(2) a juvenile record; or
(3) criminal history record information ordered

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expunged, sealed, or impounded under Section 5.2 of the
Criminal Identification Act.
(C) Charge. "Charge" means an allegation filed with the
Department by an aggrieved party or initiated by the
Department under its authority.
(D) Civil rights violation. "Civil rights violation"
includes and shall be limited to only those specific acts set
forth in Sections 2-102, 2-103, 2-105, 3-102, 3-102.1, 3-103,
3-102.10, 3-104.1, 3-105, 3-105.1, 4-102, 4-103, 5-102,
5A-102, 6-101, 6-101.5, and 6-102 of this Act.
(E) Commission. "Commission" means the Human Rights
Commission created by this Act.
(F) Complaint. "Complaint" means the formal pleading filed
by the Department with the Commission following an
investigation and finding of substantial evidence of a civil
rights violation.
(G) Complainant. "Complainant" means a person including
the Department who files a charge of civil rights violation
with the Department or the Commission.
(G-5) Conviction record. "Conviction record" means
information indicating that a person has been convicted of a
felony, misdemeanor or other criminal offense, placed on
probation, fined, imprisoned, or paroled pursuant to any law
enforcement or military authority.
(H) Department. "Department" means the Department of Human
Rights created by this Act.

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(I) Disability.
(1) "Disability" means a determinable physical or mental
characteristic of a person, including, but not limited to, a
determinable physical characteristic which necessitates the
person's use of a guide, hearing or support dog, the history of
such characteristic, or the perception of such characteristic
by the person complained against, which may result from
disease, injury, congenital condition of birth or functional
disorder and which characteristic:
(a) For purposes of Article 2, is unrelated to the
person's ability to perform the duties of a particular job
or position and, pursuant to Section 2-104 of this Act, a
person's illegal use of drugs or alcohol is not a
disability;
(b) For purposes of Article 3, is unrelated to the
person's ability to acquire, rent, or maintain a housing
accommodation;
(c) For purposes of Article 4, is unrelated to a
person's ability to repay;
(d) For purposes of Article 5, is unrelated to a
person's ability to utilize and benefit from a place of
public accommodation;
(e) For purposes of Article 5, also includes any
mental, psychological, or developmental disability,
including autism spectrum disorders.
(2) Discrimination based on disability includes unlawful

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discrimination against an individual because of the
individual's association with a person with a disability.
(J) Marital status. "Marital status" means the legal
status of being married, single, separated, divorced, or
widowed.
(J-1) Military status. "Military status" means a person's
status on active duty in or status as a veteran of the armed
forces of the United States, status as a current member or
veteran of any reserve component of the armed forces of the
United States, including the United States Army Reserve,
United States Marine Corps Reserve, United States Navy
Reserve, United States Air Force Reserve, and United States
Coast Guard Reserve, or status as a current member or veteran
of the Illinois Army National Guard or Illinois Air National
Guard.
(K) National origin. "National origin" means the place in
which a person or one of his or her ancestors was born.
(K-5) "Order of protection status" means a person's status
as being a person protected under an order of protection
issued pursuant to the Illinois Domestic Violence Act of 1986,
Article 112A of the Code of Criminal Procedure of 1963, the
Stalking No Contact Order Act, or the Civil No Contact Order
Act, or an order of protection issued by a court of another
state.
(L) Person. "Person" includes one or more individuals,
partnerships, associations or organizations, labor

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organizations, labor unions, joint apprenticeship committees,
or union labor associations, corporations, the State of
Illinois and its instrumentalities, political subdivisions,
units of local government, legal representatives, trustees in
bankruptcy or receivers.
(L-5) Pregnancy. "Pregnancy" means pregnancy, childbirth,
or medical or common conditions related to pregnancy or
childbirth.
(M) Public contract. "Public contract" includes every
contract to which the State, any of its political
subdivisions, or any municipal corporation is a party.
(M-5) Race. "Race" includes traits associated with race,
including, but not limited to, hair texture and protective
hairstyles such as braids, locks, and twists.
(N) Religion. "Religion" includes all aspects of religious
observance and practice, as well as belief, except that with
respect to employers, for the purposes of Article 2,
"religion" has the meaning ascribed to it in paragraph (F) of
Section 2-101.
(O) Sex. "Sex" means the status of being male or female.
(O-1) Sexual orientation. "Sexual orientation" means
actual or perceived heterosexuality, homosexuality,
bisexuality, or gender-related identity, whether or not
traditionally associated with the person's designated sex at
birth. "Sexual orientation" does not include a physical or
sexual attraction to a minor by an adult.

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(O-2) Reproductive Health Decisions. "Reproductive Health
Decisions" means a person's decisions regarding the person's
use of: contraception; fertility or sterilization care;
assisted reproductive technologies; miscarriage management
care; healthcare related to the continuation or termination of
pregnancy; or prenatal, intranatal, or postnatal care.
(O-5) Source of income. "Source of income" means the
lawful manner by which an individual supports himself or
herself and his or her dependents.
(P) Unfavorable military discharge. "Unfavorable military
discharge" includes discharges from the Armed Forces of the
United States, their Reserve components, or any National Guard
or Naval Militia which are classified as RE-3 or the
equivalent thereof, but does not include those characterized
as RE-4 or "Dishonorable".
(Q) Unlawful discrimination. "Unlawful discrimination"
means discrimination against a person because of his or her
actual or perceived: race, color, religion, national origin,
ancestry, age, sex, marital status, order of protection
status, disability, military status, sexual orientation,
pregnancy, reproductive health decisions, or unfavorable
discharge from military service as those terms are defined in
this Section. "Unlawful discrimination" includes the use of
artificial intelligence as defined in Section 2-101 of this
Act as a means to accomplish or support the unlawful
discrimination of the person.

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(Source: P.A. 102-362, eff. 1-1-22; 102-419, eff. 1-1-22;
102-558, eff. 8-20-21; 102-813, eff. 5-13-22; 102-896, eff.
1-1-23; 102-1102, eff. 1-1-23; 103-154, eff. 6-30-23; 103-785,
eff. 1-1-25.)".