Public Act 103-1031
 
SB3652 EnrolledLRB103 37790 JRC 67919 b

    AN ACT concerning civil law.
 
    Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, 
represented in the General Assembly:
 
    Section 1. Short title. This Act may be cited as the 
Summary of Rights for Safer Homes Act.
 
    Section 5. Legislative intent. The purpose of this Act is 
to promote the State's interest in enabling more victims of 
domestic or sexual violence and their families to become 
timely aware of the existing housing protections they have 
under 6 Illinois statutes and how to exercise their rights 
under these statutes. By requiring that a summary of these 
rights appear on page 1 of each residential lease, more 
tenants will become timely aware of these rights and how to 
exercise them. This will lead to safer homes and greater 
financial security for more victims of domestic or sexual 
violence and their families.
 
    Section 10. Definitions. As used in this Act:
    "Domestic violence" means "abuse" as defined in Section 
103 of the Illinois Domestic Violence Act of 1986 by a "family 
or household member" as defined in Section 103 of the Illinois 
Domestic Violence Act of 1986.
    "Landlord" means the owner of the building or the owner's 
agent for matters concerning the landlord's leasing of a 
dwelling.
    "Sexual violence" means any act of sexual assault, sexual 
abuse, or stalking of an adult or minor child. This includes, 
but is not limited to, non-consensual sexual conduct or 
non-consensual sexual penetration as defined in the Civil No 
Contact Order Act and the offense of stalking, aggravated 
stalking, criminal sexual assault, aggravated criminal sexual 
assault, predatory criminal sexual assault of a child, 
criminal sexual abuse, and aggravated criminal sexual abuse as 
those offenses are described in the Criminal Code of 2012.
    "Tenant" means a person who has entered into a written 
lease with a landlord in which the person is the lessee under 
the lease.
 
    Section 15. Summary of Illinois housing protections for 
survivors of domestic violence and sexual violence and 
acknowledgment of receipt of summary form.
    (a) The Director of the Illinois Department of Human 
Rights shall prepare a summary identifying the key rights and 
remedies of tenants or household members of tenants who are 
survivors of domestic violence or sexual violence under the 
following 6 Illinois statutes: the Safe Homes Act; the 
Eviction Article in the Code of Civil Procedure; the Illinois 
Human Rights Act; and Section 8-201.6 of the Public Utilities 
Act providing for the deferral of deposit for victims of 
domestic violence and ordinances that prohibit penalizing 
tenants who contact police or other emergency services in 
Section 1-2-1.5 of the Illinois Municipal Code and Section 
5-1005.10 of the Counties Code. The Director shall make this 
summary available for public inspection and copying no later 
than 60 days after this bill becomes law.
    (b) Space must be provided at the bottom of each page of 
the summary that the tenant may sign as acknowledgment of the 
tenant's receipt of the summary as attached to a paper version 
of the lease or inserted into an electronic version of the 
lease.
    (c) The summary described in this Act shall be prepared in 
consultation with Illinois domestic and sexual violence 
service providers.
 
    Section 20. Disclosure of summary to tenants and obtaining 
acknowledgment of receipt. A landlord or a landlord's agent 
shall attach a copy of the summary of this Act as the first 
page of any written residential lease they enter into with a 
tenant, including for a new rental or renewal, and obtain the 
signature of each tenant in the acknowledgment of receipt at 
the bottom of each page of the summary.
 
    Section 25. Evidence of attachment of summary and delivery 
of summary to tenants under written residential leases.
    (a) The signature of the tenant at the bottom of each page 
of the summary described in this Act may simultaneously act as 
evidence that the landlord fulfilled the obligations described 
in this Act for that tenant.
    (b) Failure of the landlord to provide the evidence 
described in this Section creates a rebuttable presumption 
that the landlord failed to comply with the landlord's 
disclosure obligations in this Act.
 
    Section 30. Failure to comply with the Act's requirements. 
    (a) A landlord who is found to have failed to comply with 
the requirements of this Act for any tenant under a written 
residential lease shall be liable to that tenant for the 
greater of: (i) the tenant's actual damages, if any, not to 
exceed $2,000 or (ii) $100.
    (b) If a tenant brings a private right of action under this 
Act and prevails in such action, the tenant shall also be 
awarded all court costs and reasonable attorney's fees. There 
is no requirement for the tenant to seek relief under this Act 
through the Illinois Department of Human Rights.
 
    Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect January 
1, 2026.