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90_HB2370ham001
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1 AMENDMENT TO HOUSE BILL 2370
2 AMENDMENT NO. . Amend House Bill 2370 as follows:
3 on page 1, line 16, after "State", by inserting the
4 following:
5 ", including a home rule unit"; and
6 on line 29, after "requirement", by inserting the following:
7 "under the First Amendment to the United States
8 Constitution"; and
9 on page 2, line 18, by replacing "local laws and ordinances"
10 with the following:
11 "local (including home rule unit) laws, ordinances, policies,
12 procedures, practices, and governmental actions"; and
13 on page 3, line 8, after "Act", by inserting the following:
14 "; home rule powers"; and
15 by replacing lines 9 through 11 with the following:
16 "(a) This Act applies to all State and local (including
17 home rule unit) laws, ordinances, policies, procedures,
18 practices, and governmental actions and their
19 implementation, whether statutory or otherwise and whether";
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1 and
2 below line 28, by inserting the following:
3 "(d) The corporate authorities of a municipality or other
4 unit of local government may enact ordinances, standards,
5 rules, or regulations that protect the free exercise of
6 religion in a manner or to an extent equal to or greater than
7 the protection provided in this Act. If an ordinance,
8 standard, rule, or regulation enacted under the authority of
9 this Section or under the authority of a unit of local
10 government's home rule powers prohibits, restricts, narrows,
11 or burdens a person's exercise of religion or permits the
12 prohibition, restriction, narrowing, or burdening of a
13 person's exercise of religion, that ordinance, standard,
14 rule, or regulation is void and unenforceable as to that
15 person if it (i) is not in furtherance of a compelling
16 governmental interest and (ii) is not the least restrictive
17 means of furthering that governmental interest. This
18 subsection is a limitation under subsection (i) of Section 6
19 of Article VII of the Illinois Constitution on the concurrent
20 exercise by home rule units of powers and functions exercised
21 by the State.".
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