102ND GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2021 and 2022
HB0254
 
Introduced 1/29/2021, by Rep. Kambium Buckner
 
SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
 

 



775 ILCS 5/3-102  from Ch. 68, par. 3-102

     Amends the Real Estate Transactions Article of the Illinois Human Rights Act. Provides that it is a civil rights violation for an owner or any other person engaging in a real estate transaction to engage or participate in certain actions or behavior, including actions or behavior related to transactions, terms, offers, negotiations, representations, publications of intent, and listings, because of a person's criminal conviction history.
  


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1    AN ACT concerning human rights.
  
 
2    Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
 
3represented in the General Assembly:
  
 
 
4    Section 5. The Illinois Human Rights Act is amended  by 
5changing Section 3-102 as follows:
 


6    (775 ILCS 5/3-102)  (from Ch. 68, par. 3-102)




7    Sec. 3-102. Civil rights violations;  real estate 
8transactions.  It
is a civil rights violation for an owner or 
9any other person engaging in
a real estate transaction, or for 
10a real estate broker or salesman,
because of unlawful 
11discrimination, familial status, criminal conviction history, 
12or an arrest record, as defined under subsection (B-5) of 
13Section 1-103, to: 

14        (A) Transaction.  Refuse to engage in a real estate 
15    transaction with
a person or to discriminate in making 
16    available such a transaction;

17        (B) Terms.  Alter the terms, conditions or privileges 
18    of a real
estate transaction or in the furnishing of 
19    facilities or services in
connection therewith;

20        (C) Offer. Refuse to receive or to fail to transmit a 
21    bona fide
offer to engage in a real estate transaction 
22    from a person;

23        (D) Negotiation.  Refuse to negotiate for a real estate 
 
 
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1    transaction
with a person;

2        (E) Representations.  Represent to a person that real 
3    property is
not available for inspection, sale, rental, or 
4    lease when in fact it is
so available, or to fail to bring 
5    a property listing to his or her
attention, or to refuse to 
6    permit him or her to inspect real property;

7        (F) Publication of Intent.  Make, print, circulate, 
8    post, mail, publish or cause to be made, printed, 
9    circulated, posted, mailed, or published any notice, 
10    statement, advertisement or sign, or use a form of 
11    application for a real estate transaction, or make a 
12    record or inquiry in connection with a prospective real 
13    estate transaction, that indicates any preference, 
14    limitation, or discrimination based on unlawful 
15    discrimination or unlawful discrimination based on 
16    familial status, criminal conviction history, or an arrest 
17    record, or an intention to make any such preference, 
18    limitation, or discrimination;

19        (G) Listings.  Offer, solicit, accept, use or retain a 
20    listing of
real property with knowledge that unlawful 
21    discrimination or
discrimination on the basis of familial 
22    status, criminal conviction history, or an arrest record 
23    in a real estate
transaction is intended.

24(Source: P.A. 101-565, eff. 1-1-20.)