Bill Text: IL HB3152 | 2025-2026 | 104th General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Creates the General Assembly Privacy Act. Provides that government agencies shall not publicly post or display publicly available content that includes a member of the General Assembly's personal information, provided that the government agency has received a written request from the member. Prohibits a person, business, or association from soliciting, selling, or trading on the Internet a members's personal information with the intent to pose an imminent and serious threat to the health and safety of the member's immediate family. Allows for civil damages of not less than $10,000. Makes it a Class 3 felony to knowingly post personal information of the member's immediate family, if the person knows or reasonably should know the posting poses an imminent and serious threat to the health and safety of the member or the member's immediate family, and the posting is a proximate cause of bodily injury or death of the member or the member's immediate family.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2025-02-06 - Filed with the Clerk by Rep. David Friess [HB3152 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2025-HB3152-Introduced.html

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104TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2025 and 2026 HB3152 Introduced , by Rep. David Friess SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
New Act
Creates the General Assembly Privacy Act. Provides that government agencies shall not publicly post or display publicly available content that includes a member of the General Assembly's personal information, provided that the government agency has received a written request from the member. Prohibits a person, business, or association from soliciting, selling, or trading on the Internet a members's personal information with the intent to pose an imminent and serious threat to the health and safety of the member's immediate family. Allows for civil damages of not less than $10,000. Makes it a Class 3 felony to knowingly post personal information of the member's immediate family, if the person knows or reasonably should know the posting poses an imminent and serious threat to the health and safety of the member or the member's immediate family, and the posting is a proximate cause of bodily injury or death of the member or the member's immediate family.
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A BILL FOR
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AN ACT concerning State government.
Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
represented in the General Assembly:
Article 1. GENERAL PROVISIONS
Section 1-1. Short title. This Act may be cited as the
General Assembly Privacy Act.
Section 1-5. Definitions. As used in this Act:
"Government agency" includes all agencies, authorities,
boards, commissions, departments, institutions, offices, and
any other bodies politic and corporate of the State created by
the constitution or statute, whether in the executive,
judicial, or legislative branch; all units and corporate
outgrowths created by executive order of the Governor or any
constitutional officer, by the Supreme Court, or by resolution
of the General Assembly; or agencies, authorities, boards,
commissions, departments, institutions, offices, and any other
bodies politic and corporate of a unit of local government, or
school district.
"Home address" includes a member's permanent residence and
any secondary residences affirmatively identified by the
member, but does not include a member's work address.
"Immediate family" includes a member's spouse, child,

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parent, or any blood relative of the member or the member's
spouse who lives in the same residence.
"Member" means a member of the Illinois General Assembly.
"Personal information" means a home address, home
telephone number, mobile telephone number, pager number,
personal email address, social security number, federal tax
identification number, checking and savings account numbers,
credit card numbers, marital status, and identity of children
under the age of 18.
"Publicly available content" means any written, printed,
or electronic document or record that provides information or
that serves as a document or record maintained, controlled, or
in the possession of a government agency that may be obtained
by any person or entity, from the Internet, from the
government agency upon request either free of charge or for a
fee, or in response to a request under the Freedom of
Information Act.
"Publicly post" or "publicly display" means to communicate
to another or otherwise make available to the general public.
"Written request" means written notice signed by a member
or a representative of the member's employer requesting a
government agency, person, business, or association to refrain
from posting or displaying publicly available content that
includes the member's personal information.
Article 5. CIVIL PROVISIONS

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Section 5-1. Publicly posting or displaying a member's
personal information by government agencies.
(a) Government agencies shall not publicly post or display
publicly available content that includes a member's personal
information, provided that the government agency has received
a written request in accordance with Section 5-5 that it
refrain from disclosing the member's personal information.
After a government agency has received a written request, that
agency shall remove the member's personal information from
publicly available content within 5 business days. After the
government agency has removed the member's personal
information from publicly available content, the agency shall
not publicly post or display the information and the member's
personal information shall be exempt from the Freedom of
Information Act unless the government agency has received
consent from the member to make the personal information
available to the public.
(b) Redress. If a government agency fails to comply with a
written request to refrain from disclosing personal
information, the member may bring an action seeking injunctive
or declaratory relief in any court of competent jurisdiction.
Section 5-5. Publicly posting a member's personal
information on the Internet by persons, businesses, and
associations.

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(a) Prohibited Conduct.
(1) All persons, businesses, and associations shall
refrain from publicly posting or displaying on the
Internet publicly available content that includes a
member's personal information, provided that the member
has made a written request to the person, business, or
association that it refrain from disclosing the personal
information.
(2) No person, business, or association shall solicit,
sell, or trade on the Internet a member's personal
information with the intent to pose an imminent and
serious threat to the health and safety of the member or
the member's immediate family.
(3) This subsection includes, but is not limited to,
Internet phone directories, Internet search engines,
Internet data aggregators, and Internet service providers.
(b) Required Conduct.
(1) After a person, business, or association has
received a written request from a member to protect the
privacy of the member's personal information, that person,
business, or association shall have 72 hours to remove the
personal information from the Internet.
(2) After a person, business, or association has
received a written request from a member, that person,
business, or association shall ensure that the member's
personal information is not made available on any website

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or subsidiary website controlled by that person, business,
or association.
(3) After receiving a member's written request, no
person, business, or association shall transfer the
member's personal information to any other person,
business, or association through any medium.
(c) Redress. A member whose personal information is made
public as a result of a violation of this Act may bring an
action seeking injunctive or declaratory relief in any court
of competent jurisdiction. If the court grants injunctive or
declaratory relief, the person, business, or association
responsible for the violation shall be required to pay the
member's costs and reasonable attorney's fees.
Section 5-10. Procedure for completing a written request.
(a) Requirement that a member make a written request. No
government agency, person, business, or association shall be
found to have violated any provision of this Act if the member
fails to submit a written request calling for the protection
of the member's personal information.
(b) Written request procedure. A written request shall be
valid if the member, or an agent of the member, sends a written
request directly to a government agency, person, business, or
association.
(c) A representative of the member may submit a written
request on the member's behalf, provided that the member gives

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written consent to the representative and provided that the
representative agrees to furnish a copy of that consent when a
written request is made. The representative shall submit the
written request as provided in subsection (b).
(d) Information to be included in the written request. A
member's written request shall specify what personal
information shall be maintained private.
If a member wishes to identify a secondary residence as a
home address, the designation shall be made in the written
request.
A member shall disclose the identity of the member's
immediate family and indicate that the personal information of
these family members shall also be excluded to the extent that
it could reasonably be expected to reveal the personal
information of the member.
(e) Duration of the written request. A member's written
request is valid until the member provides the government
agency, person, business, or association with written
permission to release the private information. A member's
written request expires on death.
Article 10. CRIMINAL PROVISIONS
Section 10-1. Unlawful publication of personal
information. It is unlawful for any person to knowingly
publicly post on the Internet the personal information of the

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member's immediate family if the person knows or reasonably
should know that publicly posting the personal information
poses an imminent and serious threat to the health and safety
of the member's immediate family, and the violation is a
proximate cause of bodily injury or death of the member or the
member's immediate family. A person who violates this Section
is guilty of a Class 3 felony.
Section 10-5. Exceptions for employees of government
agencies. Provided that the employee of a government agency
has complied with the conditions set forth in Article 5, it is
not a violation of Section 10-1 if an employee of a government
agency publishes personal information, in good faith, on the
website of the government agency in the ordinary course of
carrying out public functions.
Article 15. MISCELLANEOUS
Section 15-1. Construction. This Act and any rules adopted
to implement this Act shall be construed broadly to favor the
protection of the personal information of members.
Section 15-5. Severability. If any part of this Act or its
application to any person or circumstance is adjudged invalid,
such adjudication or application shall not affect the validity
of this Act as a whole or of any other part.