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| | 104TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2025 and 2026
HB5056 Introduced 2/10/2026, by Rep. Michelle Mussman SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
| | 740 ILCS 90/7 | from Ch. 71, par. 4c |
| Amends the Innkeeper Protection Act. Provides that a hotel does not include any facility that provides emergency shelter or emergency housing to persons who are unhoused or unsheltered and (1) a person's admission to the facility is limited to a single overnight stay or is renewable on a daily basis; and (2) the facility does not require the payment of any fees by these persons for admission to the facility. Effective immediately. |
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| | HB5056 | | LRB104 18214 JRC 31653 b |
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| 1 | | AN ACT concerning civil law.
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| 2 | | Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, |
| 3 | | represented in the General Assembly:
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| 4 | | Section 5. The Innkeeper Protection Act is amended by |
| 5 | | changing Section 7 as follows:
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| 6 | | (740 ILCS 90/7) (from Ch. 71, par. 4c) |
| 7 | | Sec. 7. The word "hotel" within the meaning of this act |
| 8 | | includes every building or structure kept, used, maintained, |
| 9 | | advertised, and held out to the public to be a place where |
| 10 | | lodging, or lodging and food, or apartments, or suites, or |
| 11 | | other accommodations are offered for adequate pay to travelers |
| 12 | | and guests, whether transient, permanent or residential, in |
| 13 | | which 25 or more rooms are used for the lodging, or lodging and |
| 14 | | food, or apartments, or suites, or other accommodations of |
| 15 | | such guests. For the purposes of this Act, a hotel does not |
| 16 | | include any facility that provides emergency shelter or |
| 17 | | emergency housing to persons who are unhoused or unsheltered |
| 18 | | and (1) a person's admission to the facility is limited to a |
| 19 | | single overnight stay or is renewable on a daily basis; and (2) |
| 20 | | the facility does not require the payment of any fees by these |
| 21 | | persons for admission to the facility. |
| 22 | | The owner or keeper of such hotel, apartment hotel, |
| 23 | | residential hotel, motel, motor court, inn, boarding or |