HB5173 100TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY

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100TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2017 and 2018
HB5173

Introduced , by Rep. Emanuel Chris Welch

SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:

775 ILCS 5/5-102.1

Amends the Public Accommodations Article of the Illinois Human Rights Act. Provides that it is not a civil rights violation for a place of public accommodation to refuse to serve a person based upon a determination that the person's pants are not appropriately sized and secured at the waist in a manner that prevents the pants from falling more than 3 inches below the hips and permitting exposure of the person or the person's undergarments.

A BILL FOR

AN ACT concerning civil law.

Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly:

Section 5. The Illinois Human Rights Act is amended by changing Section 5-102.1 as follows:

(775 ILCS 5/5-102.1)

Sec. 5-102.1. No Civil Rights Violation: Public Accommodations.

(a) It is not a civil rights violation for a medical, dental, or other health care professional or a private professional service provider such as a lawyer, accountant, or insurance agent to refer or refuse to treat or provide services to an individual in a protected class for any non-discriminatory reason if, in the normal course of his or her operations or business, the professional would for the same reason refer or refuse to treat or provide services to an individual who is not in the protected class of the individual who seeks or requires the same or similar treatment or services.

(b) With respect to a place of public accommodation defined in paragraph (11) of Section 5-101, the exercise of free speech, free expression, free exercise of religion or expression of religiously based views by any individual or group of individuals that is protected under the First Amendment to the United States Constitution or under Section 3 of Article I, or Section 4 of Article I, of the Illinois Constitution, shall not be a civil rights violation.

(c) It is not a civil rights violation for a place of public accommodation to refuse to serve a person based upon a determination that the person's pants are not appropriately sized and secured at the waist in a manner that prevents the pants from falling more than 3 inches below the hips (crest of the ilium) and permitting exposure of the person or the person's undergarments.

(Source: P.A. 95-668, eff. 10-10-07; 96-814, eff. 1-1-10.)