Bill Text: IL HB0254 | 2021-2022 | 102nd General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Amends the Real Estate Transactions Article of the Illinois Human Rights Act. Provides that it is a civil rights violation for an owner or any other person engaging in a real estate transaction to engage or participate in certain actions or behavior, including actions or behavior related to transactions, terms, offers, negotiations, representations, publications of intent, and listings, because of a person's criminal conviction history.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2021-03-27 - Rule 19(a) / Re-referred to Rules Committee [HB0254 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2021-HB0254-Introduced.html

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102ND GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2021 and 2022 HB0254 Introduced , by Rep. Kambium Buckner SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
775 ILCS 5/3-102 from Ch. 68, par. 3-102
Amends the Real Estate Transactions Article of the Illinois Human Rights Act. Provides that it is a civil rights violation for an owner or any other person engaging in a real estate transaction to engage or participate in certain actions or behavior, including actions or behavior related to transactions, terms, offers, negotiations, representations, publications of intent, and listings, because of a person's criminal conviction history.
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A BILL FOR
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AN ACT concerning human rights.
Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
represented in the General Assembly:
Section 5. The Illinois Human Rights Act is amended by
changing Section 3-102 as follows:
(775 ILCS 5/3-102) (from Ch. 68, par. 3-102)
Sec. 3-102. Civil rights violations; real estate
transactions. It is a civil rights violation for an owner or
any other person engaging in a real estate transaction, or for
a real estate broker or salesman, because of unlawful
discrimination, familial status, criminal conviction history,
or an arrest record, as defined under subsection (B-5) of
Section 1-103, to:
(A) Transaction. Refuse to engage in a real estate
transaction with a person 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) Offer. Refuse to receive or to fail to transmit a
bona fide offer to engage in a real estate transaction
from a person;
(D) Negotiation. Refuse to negotiate for a real estate

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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 his or her attention, or to refuse to
permit him or her to inspect real property;
(F) Publication of Intent. Make, print, circulate,
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, criminal conviction history, 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, criminal conviction history, or an arrest record
in a real estate transaction is intended.
(Source: P.A. 101-565, eff. 1-1-20.)