Illinois Senate Bill 2282 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Completed Legislative Action
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)
Status: Failed on January 9 2019 - 100% progression
Action: 2019-01-09 - Session Sine Die
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [HTML]

Creates the Limitations on Actions for Negligent Hiring Act. Provides that a cause of action may not be brought against a party solely for hiring an employee or independent contractor who has been convicted of a nonviolent, non-sexual offense. Provides that in a negligent hiring action for the acts of an employee or independent contractor, the fact that the employee or independent contractor was convicted of a nonviolent, non-sexual offense before the beginning of the employee's or independent contractor's employment or contractual obligation may not be introduced into evidence. Provides that the new provisions do not preclude any existing cause of action for failure of an employer or other person to provide adequate supervision of an employee or independent contractor, except that the fact that the employee or independent contractor has been convicted of a nonviolent, non-sexual criminal offense may be introduced into evidence in the suit only if: (1) the employer knew of the conviction or was grossly negligent in not knowing of the conviction; and (2) the conviction was directly related to the nature of the employee's or independent contractor's work and the conduct that gave rise to the alleged injury that is the basis of the suit. Provides exceptions in certain situations.

NEGLIGENT HIRING-LIMITATIONS

Sen. Chuck Weaver [R]

Sen. Dale Righter [R]

Date	Chamber	Action
2019-01-09	Senate	Session Sine Die
2018-04-13	Senate	Rule 3-9(a) / Re-referred to Assignments
2018-03-14	Senate	Added as Co-Sponsor Sen. Dale A. Righter
2018-02-07	Senate	To Subcommittee on Tort Reform
2018-01-24	Senate	Assigned to Judiciary
2018-01-10	Senate	Referred to Assignments
2018-01-10	Senate	First Reading
2018-01-10	Senate	Filed with Secretary by Sen. Chuck Weaver

Type	Source
Summary	https://www.ilga.gov/legislation/BillStatus.asp?DocNum=2282&GAID=14&DocTypeID=SB&SessionID=91&GA=100
Text	https://www.ilga.gov/legislation/100/SB/10000SB2282.htm