Bill Text: IL SB1279 | 2023-2024 | 103rd General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Amends the Public Accommodations Article of the Illinois Human Rights Act. Removes a provision providing that nothing in the Article applies to a private club, or other establishment not in fact open to the public, except to the extent that the goods, services, facilities, privileges, advantages, or accommodations of the establishment are made available to the customers or patrons of another establishment that is a place of public accommodation.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2023-03-10 - Rule 3-9(a) / Re-referred to Assignments [SB1279 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2023-SB1279-Introduced.html

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103RD GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2023 and 2024 SB1279 Introduced 2/3/2023, by Sen. Rachel Ventura SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
775 ILCS 5/5-103 from Ch. 68, par. 5-103
Amends the Public Accommodations Article of the Illinois Human Rights Act. Removes a provision providing that nothing in the Article applies to a private club, or other establishment not in fact open to the public, except to the extent that the goods, services, facilities, privileges, advantages, or accommodations of the establishment are made available to the customers or patrons of another establishment that is a place of public accommodation.
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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 5-103 as follows:
(775 ILCS 5/5-103) (from Ch. 68, par. 5-103)
Sec. 5-103. Exemption. Nothing in this Article shall apply
to:
(A) (Blank). Private Club. A private club, or other
establishment not in fact open to the public, except to the
extent that the goods, services, facilities, privileges,
advantages, or accommodations of the establishment are made
available to the customers or patrons of another establishment
that is a place of public accommodation.
(B) Facilities Distinctly Private. Any facility, as to
discrimination based on sex, which is distinctly private in
nature such as restrooms, shower rooms, bath houses, health
clubs and other similar facilities for which the Department,
in its rules and regulations, may grant exemptions based on
bona fide considerations of public policy.
(C) Inn, Hotel, Rooming House. Any facility, as to
discrimination based on sex, which restricts the rental of
rooms to individuals of one sex.

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(Source: P.A. 85-567.)