Illinois House Bill 1594

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: Introduced on January 22 2025 - 25% progression
Action: 2025-01-28 - Referred to Rules Committee
Pending: House Rules Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [HTML]

Amends the Illinois Human Rights Act. Provides that it is a civil rights violation for an employer, employment agency, or labor organization to take certain employment-related actions on the basis of an individual's weight and size. Provides that it is a civil rights violation for the owner, lessee, proprietor, manager, superintendent, agent, or employee of a place of public accommodation, because of the weight and size of any person, directly or indirectly, to refuse, withhold from, or deny to any individual any of the accommodations, advantages, facilities, or privileges of the place of public accommodation.

EMPLOYMENT&ACCOMODATION-WEIGHT

Rep. Laura Faver Dias [D]

Date	Chamber	Action
2025-01-28	House	Referred to Rules Committee
2025-01-28	House	First Reading
2025-01-22	House	Filed with the Clerk by Rep. Laura Faver Dias

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
775	5	2-102	Amended Code	Citation Text
775	5	5-102.3	New Code	See Bill Text

Type	Source
Summary	https://www.ilga.gov/legislation/BillStatus.asp?DocNum=1594&GAID=18&DocTypeID=HB&SessionID=114&GA=104
Text	https://www.ilga.gov/legislation/104/HB/10400HB1594.htm