Rep. Karen A. Yarbrough

Filed: 3/15/2010

 

 


 

 


 
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AMENDMENT TO HOUSE BILL 5523

2     AMENDMENT NO. ______. Amend House Bill 5523 by replacing
3 everything after the enacting clause with the following:
 
4     "Section 5. The Code of Civil Procedure is amended by
5 adding Section 9-106.2 as follows:
 
6     (735 ILCS 5/9-106.2 new)
7     Sec. 9-106.2. Affirmative defense for violence; barring
8 persons from property.
9     (a) It shall be an affirmative defense to an action
10 maintained under this Article IX if the court makes one of the
11 following findings that the demand for possession is:
12         (1) based solely on the tenant's, lessee's, or
13     household member's status as a victim of domestic violence
14     or sexual violence as those terms are defined in Section 10
15     of the Safe Homes Act, stalking as that term is defined in
16     the Criminal Code of 1961, or dating violence;

 

 

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1         (2) based solely upon an incident of actual or
2     threatened domestic violence, dating violence, stalking,
3     or sexual violence against a tenant, lessee, or household
4     member;
5         (3) based solely upon criminal activity directly
6     relating to domestic violence, dating violence, stalking,
7     or sexual violence engaged in by a member of a tenant's or
8     lessee's household or any guest or other person under the
9     tenant's, lessee's, or household member's control, and
10     against the tenant, lessee, or household member; or
11         (4) based upon a demand for possession pursuant to
12     subsection (f) where the tenant, lessee, or household
13     member who was the victim of domestic violence, sexual
14     violence, stalking, or dating violence did not knowingly
15     consent to the barred person entering the premises or a
16     valid court order permitted the barred person's entry onto
17     the premises.
18     (b) When asserting the affirmative defense, at least one
19 form of the following types of evidence shall be provided to
20 support the affirmative defense: medical, court, or police
21 records documenting the violence or a statement from an
22 employee of a victim service organization or from a medical
23 professional from whom the tenant, lessee, or household member
24 has sought services.
25     (c) Nothing in subsection (a) shall prevent the landlord
26 from seeking possession solely against a tenant, household

 

 

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1 member, or lessee of the premises who perpetrated the violence
2 referred to in subsection (a).
3     (d) Nothing in subsection (a) shall prevent the landlord
4 from seeking possession against the entire household,
5 including the tenant, lessee, or household member who is a
6 victim of domestic violence, dating violence, stalking, or
7 sexual violence if the tenant, lessee, or household member's
8 continued tenancy would pose an actual and imminent threat to
9 other tenants, lessees, household members, the landlord or
10 their agents at the property.
11     (e) Nothing in subsection (a) shall prevent the landlord
12 from seeking possession against the tenant, lessee, or
13 household member who is a victim of domestic violence, dating
14 violence, stalking, or sexual violence if that tenant, lessee,
15 or household member has committed the criminal activity on
16 which the demand for possession is based.
17     (f) A landlord shall have the power to bar the presence of
18 a person from the premises owned by the landlord who is not a
19 tenant or lessee or who is not a member of the tenant's or
20 lessee's household. A landlord bars a person from the premises
21 by providing written notice to the tenant or lessee that the
22 person is no longer allowed on the premises. That notice shall
23 state that if the tenant invites the barred person onto any
24 portion of the premises, then the landlord may treat this as a
25 breach of the lease, whether or not this provision is contained
26 in the lease. Subject to paragraph (4) of subsection (a), the

 

 

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1 landlord may evict the tenant.
2     (g) Further, a landlord may give notice to a person that
3 the person is barred from the premises owned by the landlord. A
4 person has received notice from the landlord within the meaning
5 of this subsection if he has been notified personally, either
6 orally or in writing including a valid court order as defined
7 by subsection (7) of Section 112A-3 of the Code of Criminal
8 Procedure of 1963 granting remedy (2) of subsection (b) of
9 Section 112A-14 of that Code, or if a printed or written notice
10 forbidding such entry has been conspicuously posted or
11 exhibited at the main entrance to such land or the forbidden
12 part thereof. Any person entering the landlord's premises after
13 such notice has been given shall be guilty of criminal trespass
14 to real property as set forth in Section 21-3 of the Criminal
15 Code of 1961. After notice has been given, an invitation to the
16 person to enter the premises shall be void if made by a tenant,
17 lessee, or member of the tenant's or lessee's household and
18 shall not constitute a valid invitation to come upon the
19 premises or a defense to a criminal trespass to real property.
 
20     Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon
21 becoming law.".