Bill Text: IL HB2260 | 2019-2020 | 101st General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Amends the Condominium and Common Interest Community Ombudsperson Act. Provides that, subject to appropriation, the Ombudsperson may hire a staff member.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2019-03-29 - Rule 19(a) / Re-referred to Rules Committee [HB2260 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2019-HB2260-Introduced.html

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101ST GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2019 and 2020 HB2260 Introduced , by Rep. Sara Feigenholtz SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
765 ILCS 615/20
Amends the Condominium and Common Interest Community Ombudsperson Act. Provides that, subject to appropriation, the Ombudsperson may hire a staff member.
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A BILL FOR
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AN ACT concerning civil law.
Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
represented in the General Assembly:
Section 5. The Condominium and Common Interest Community
Ombudsperson Act is amended by changing Section 20 as follows:
(765 ILCS 615/20)
(Section scheduled to be repealed on July 1, 2022)
Sec. 20. Office of the Condominium and Common Interest
Community Ombudsperson.
(a) There is created in the Division of Real Estate within
the Department of Financial and Professional Regulation, under
the supervision and control of the Secretary, the Office of the
Condominium and Common Interest Community Ombudsperson.
(b) The Department shall name an Ombudsperson and other
persons as necessary to discharge the requirements of this Act.
The Ombudsperson shall have the powers delegated to him or her
by the Department, in addition to the powers set forth in this
Act. Subject to appropriation, the Ombudsperson may hire a
staff member.
(c) Neither the Ombudsperson nor the Department shall have
any authority to consider matters that may constitute grounds
for charges or complaints under the Illinois Human Rights Act
or that are properly brought before the Department of Human

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Rights or the Illinois Human Rights Commission, before a
comparable department or body established by a county,
municipality, or township pursuant to an ordinance prohibiting
discrimination and established for the purpose of
investigating and adjudicating charges or complaints of
discrimination under the ordinance, or before a federal agency
or commission that administers and enforces federal
anti-discrimination laws and investigates and adjudicates
charges or complaints of discrimination under such laws.
(d) Information and advice provided by the Ombudsperson has
no binding legal effect and is not subject to the provisions of
the Illinois Administrative Procedure Act.
(Source: P.A. 98-1135, eff. 1-1-17 (See Section 20 of P.A.
99-776 for effective date of P.A. 98-1135); 99-776, eff.
8-12-16.)