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1 | | agent for matters concerning the landlord's leasing of a |
2 | | dwelling. |
3 | | "Sexual violence" means any act of sexual assault, sexual |
4 | | abuse, or stalking of an adult or minor child. This includes, |
5 | | but is not limited to, non-consensual sexual conduct or |
6 | | non-consensual sexual penetration as defined in the Civil No |
7 | | Contact Order Act and the offense of stalking, aggravated |
8 | | stalking, criminal sexual assault, aggravated criminal sexual |
9 | | assault, predatory criminal sexual assault of a child, |
10 | | criminal sexual abuse, and aggravated criminal sexual abuse as |
11 | | those offenses are described in the Criminal Code of 2012. |
12 | | "Tenant" means a person who has entered into a written |
13 | | lease with a landlord in which the person is the lessee under |
14 | | the lease. |
15 | | Section 15. Summary of Illinois housing protections for |
16 | | survivors of domestic violence and sexual violence and |
17 | | acknowledgment of receipt of summary form. |
18 | | (a) The Director of the Illinois Department of Human |
19 | | Rights shall prepare a summary identifying the key rights and |
20 | | remedies of tenants or household members of tenants who are |
21 | | survivors of domestic violence or sexual violence under the |
22 | | following 6 Illinois statutes: the Safe Homes Act; the |
23 | | Eviction Article in the Code of Civil Procedure; the Illinois |
24 | | Human Rights Act; and Section 8-201.6 of the Public Utilities |
25 | | Act providing for the deferral of deposit for victims of |
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1 | | domestic violence and ordinances that prohibit penalizing |
2 | | tenants who contact police or other emergency services in |
3 | | Section 1-2-1.5 of the Illinois Municipal Code and Section |
4 | | 5-1005.10 of the Counties Code. The Director shall make this |
5 | | summary available for public inspection and copying no later |
6 | | than 60 days after this bill becomes law. |
7 | | (b) Space must be provided at the bottom of each page of |
8 | | the summary that the tenant may sign as acknowledgment of the |
9 | | tenant's receipt of the summary as attached to a paper version |
10 | | of the lease or inserted into an electronic version of the |
11 | | lease. |
12 | | (c) The summary described in this Act shall be prepared in |
13 | | consultation with Illinois domestic and sexual violence |
14 | | service providers. |
15 | | Section 20. Disclosure of summary to tenants and obtaining |
16 | | acknowledgment of receipt. A landlord or a landlord's agent |
17 | | shall attach a copy of the summary of this Act as the first |
18 | | page of any written residential lease they enter into with a |
19 | | tenant, including for a new rental or renewal, and obtain the |
20 | | signature of each tenant in the acknowledgment of receipt at |
21 | | the bottom of each page of the summary. |
22 | | Section 25. Evidence of attachment of summary and delivery |
23 | | of summary to tenants under written residential leases. |
24 | | (a) The signature of the tenant at the bottom of each page |
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1 | | of the summary described in this Act may simultaneously act as |
2 | | evidence that the landlord fulfilled the obligations described |
3 | | in this Act for that tenant. |
4 | | (b) Failure of the landlord to provide the evidence |
5 | | described in this Section creates a rebuttable presumption |
6 | | that the landlord failed to comply with the landlord's |
7 | | disclosure obligations in this Act. |
8 | | Section 30. Failure to comply with the Act's requirements. |
9 | | (a) A landlord who is found to have failed to comply with |
10 | | the requirements of this Act for any tenant under a written |
11 | | residential lease shall be liable to that tenant for the |
12 | | greater of: (i) the tenant's actual damages, if any, not to |
13 | | exceed $2,000 or (ii) $100. |
14 | | (b) If a tenant brings a private right of action under this |
15 | | Act and prevails in such action, the tenant shall also be |
16 | | awarded all court costs and reasonable attorney's fees. There |
17 | | is no requirement for the tenant to seek relief under this Act |
18 | | through the Illinois Department of Human Rights. |
19 | | Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect January |
20 | | 1, 2026. |