Bill Text: IL HB5173 | 2017-2018 | 100th General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Amends the Public Accommodations Article of the Illinois Human Rights Act. Provides that it is not a civil rights violation for a place of public accommodation to refuse to serve a person based upon a determination that the person's pants are not appropriately sized and secured at the waist in a manner that prevents the pants from falling more than 3 inches below the hips and permitting exposure of the person or the person's undergarments.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Failed) 2019-01-08 - Session Sine Die [HB5173 Detail]
Download: Illinois-2017-HB5173-Introduced.html
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1 | AN ACT concerning civil law.
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2 | Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
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3 | represented in the General Assembly:
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4 | Section 5. The Illinois Human Rights Act is amended by | |||||||||||||||||||
5 | changing Section 5-102.1 as follows:
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6 | (775 ILCS 5/5-102.1) | |||||||||||||||||||
7 | Sec. 5-102.1. No Civil Rights Violation: Public | |||||||||||||||||||
8 | Accommodations. | |||||||||||||||||||
9 | (a) It is not a civil rights violation for a medical, | |||||||||||||||||||
10 | dental, or other health care professional or a private | |||||||||||||||||||
11 | professional service provider such as a lawyer, accountant, or | |||||||||||||||||||
12 | insurance agent to refer or refuse to treat or provide services | |||||||||||||||||||
13 | to an individual in a protected class for any | |||||||||||||||||||
14 | non-discriminatory reason if, in the normal course of his or | |||||||||||||||||||
15 | her operations or business, the professional would for the same | |||||||||||||||||||
16 | reason refer or refuse to treat or provide services to an | |||||||||||||||||||
17 | individual who is not in the protected class of the individual | |||||||||||||||||||
18 | who seeks or
requires the same or similar treatment or | |||||||||||||||||||
19 | services.
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20 | (b) With respect to a place of public accommodation defined | |||||||||||||||||||
21 | in paragraph (11) of Section 5-101, the exercise of free | |||||||||||||||||||
22 | speech, free expression, free exercise of religion or | |||||||||||||||||||
23 | expression of religiously based views by any individual or |
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1 | group of individuals that is protected under the First | ||||||
2 | Amendment to the United States Constitution or under Section 3 | ||||||
3 | of Article I, or Section 4 of Article I, of the Illinois | ||||||
4 | Constitution, shall not be a civil rights violation. | ||||||
5 | (c) It is not a civil rights violation for a place of | ||||||
6 | public accommodation to refuse to serve a person based upon a | ||||||
7 | determination that the person's pants are not appropriately | ||||||
8 | sized and secured at the waist in a manner that prevents the | ||||||
9 | pants from falling more than 3 inches below the hips (crest of | ||||||
10 | the ilium) and permitting exposure of the person or the | ||||||
11 | person's undergarments. | ||||||
12 | (Source: P.A. 95-668, eff. 10-10-07; 96-814, eff. 1-1-10.)
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