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State of Illinois
2021 and 2022
HB4976 Introduced 1/27/2022, by Rep. Tony McCombie SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
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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.
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| | HB4976 | | LRB102 22255 LNS 31388 b |
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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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