101ST GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2019 and 2020
HB4734

 

Introduced 2/18/2020, 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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1    AN ACT concerning human rights.
 
2    Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
3represented in the General Assembly:
 
4    Section 5. The Illinois Human Rights Act is amended by
5changing Section 3-102 as follows:
 
6    (775 ILCS 5/3-102)  (from Ch. 68, par. 3-102)
7    Sec. 3-102. Civil rights violations; real estate
8transactions. It is a civil rights violation for an owner or
9any other person engaging in a real estate transaction, or for
10a real estate broker or salesman, because of unlawful
11discrimination, familial status, criminal conviction history,
12or an arrest record, as defined under subsection (B-5) of
13Section 1-103, to:
14        (A) Transaction. Refuse to engage in a real estate
15    transaction with a person or to discriminate in making
16    available such a transaction;
17        (B) Terms. Alter the terms, conditions or privileges of
18    a real estate transaction or in the furnishing of
19    facilities or services in connection therewith;
20        (C) Offer. Refuse to receive or to fail to transmit a
21    bona fide offer to engage in a real estate transaction from
22    a person;
23        (D) Negotiation. Refuse to negotiate for a real estate

 

 

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1    transaction with a person;
2        (E) Representations. Represent to a person that real
3    property is not available for inspection, sale, rental, or
4    lease when in fact it is so available, or to fail to bring
5    a property listing to his or her attention, or to refuse to
6    permit him or her to inspect real property;
7        (F) Publication of Intent. Make, print, circulate,
8    post, mail, publish or cause to be made, printed,
9    circulated, posted, mailed, or published any notice,
10    statement, advertisement or sign, or use a form of
11    application for a real estate transaction, or make a record
12    or inquiry in connection with a prospective real estate
13    transaction, that indicates any preference, limitation, or
14    discrimination based on unlawful discrimination or
15    unlawful discrimination based on familial status, criminal
16    conviction history, or an arrest record, or an intention to
17    make any such preference, limitation, or discrimination;
18        (G) Listings. Offer, solicit, accept, use or retain a
19    listing of real property with knowledge that unlawful
20    discrimination or discrimination on the basis of familial
21    status, criminal conviction history, or an arrest record in
22    a real estate transaction is intended.
23(Source: P.A. 101-565, eff. 1-1-20.)