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.


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A BILL FOR

 

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1    AN ACT concerning civil law.
 
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 5-102.1 as follows:
 
6    (775 ILCS 5/5-102.1)
7    Sec. 5-102.1. No Civil Rights Violation: Public
8Accommodations.
9    (a) It is not a civil rights violation for a medical,
10dental, or other health care professional or a private
11professional service provider such as a lawyer, accountant, or
12insurance agent to refer or refuse to treat or provide services
13to an individual in a protected class for any
14non-discriminatory reason if, in the normal course of his or
15her operations or business, the professional would for the same
16reason refer or refuse to treat or provide services to an
17individual who is not in the protected class of the individual
18who seeks or requires the same or similar treatment or
19services.
20    (b) With respect to a place of public accommodation defined
21in paragraph (11) of Section 5-101, the exercise of free
22speech, free expression, free exercise of religion or
23expression of religiously based views by any individual or

 

 

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1group of individuals that is protected under the First
2Amendment to the United States Constitution or under Section 3
3of Article I, or Section 4 of Article I, of the Illinois
4Constitution, shall not be a civil rights violation.
5    (c) It is not a civil rights violation for a place of
6public accommodation to refuse to serve a person based upon a
7determination that the person's pants are not appropriately
8sized and secured at the waist in a manner that prevents the
9pants from falling more than 3 inches below the hips (crest of
10the ilium) and permitting exposure of the person or the
11person's undergarments.
12(Source: P.A. 95-668, eff. 10-10-07; 96-814, eff. 1-1-10.)