Bill Text: IL SB2171 | 2021-2022 | 102nd General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Creates the Public Duty Rule Codification Act. Contains legislative findings and a statement of legislative purpose. Provides that a local governmental entity and its employees owe no duty of care to individual members of the general public to provide governmental services.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2021-02-26 - Referred to Assignments [SB2171 Detail]
Download: Illinois-2021-SB2171-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 1. Short title. This Act may be cited as the Public | |||||||||||||||||||
5 | Duty Rule Codification Act.
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6 | Section 5. Findings; purpose. | |||||||||||||||||||
7 | (a) The General Assembly finds: | |||||||||||||||||||
8 | (1) On January 22, 2016, the Illinois Supreme Court, | |||||||||||||||||||
9 | in Coleman v. East Joliet Fire Protection District, 2016 | |||||||||||||||||||
10 | IL 117952, abolished the public duty rule. | |||||||||||||||||||
11 | (2) The public duty rule is an important doctrine that | |||||||||||||||||||
12 | is grounded in the principle that the duty of a local | |||||||||||||||||||
13 | governmental entity to preserve the well-being of the | |||||||||||||||||||
14 | community is owed to the public at large rather than to | |||||||||||||||||||
15 | specific members of the community. | |||||||||||||||||||
16 | (b) It is the purpose of this Act to codify the public duty | |||||||||||||||||||
17 | rule.
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18 | Section 10. Public duty rule. A local governmental entity | |||||||||||||||||||
19 | and its employees owe no duty of care to individual members of | |||||||||||||||||||
20 | the general public to provide governmental services.
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