Bill Text: IL HB4734 | 2019-2020 | 101st 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.

Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-02-18 - Referred to Rules Committee [HB4734 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2019-HB4734-Introduced.html

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101ST GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2019 and 2020 HB4734 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.)