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Replaces everything after the enacting clause. Amends the Illinois Local Library Act, the Illinois Library System Act, the Village Library Act, the Public Library District Act of 1991, and the School Code. Provides that school districts, libraries, village libraries, library systems and their staff shall not limit access to biographies, autobiographies, memoirs, or any other books or materials in libraries or prohibit the purchase for library collections of biographies, autobiographies, memoirs, or any other books or materials based upon the depiction in those books or materials of matters of race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, sexual and reproductive health, gender identity, religion, human rights activism, or any other subject. Authorizes school districts, libraries, library systems and their staff to impose limitations on access to books or materials in a school library for public safety reasons or based upon the age and developmental level of persons who will have access to those books or materials.
Replaces everything after the enacting clause. Amends the Public Library District Act of 1991. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the short title.
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