Bill Text: IL HB3598 | 2011-2012 | 97th General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Amends the Lead Poisoning Prevention Act in the provision concerning owner's obligation to give notice. Provides that before entering into an agreement for the sale of a residential building or dwelling unit built before 1978, all owners shall provide prospective purchasers with certain information concerning (i) potential health hazards posed by lead in residential dwellings and (ii) disclosure to the purchaser concerning the presence of any known lead-based paint or any known lead-based paint hazards. Makes other changes. Effective immediately.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Failed) 2013-01-08 - Session Sine Die [HB3598 Detail]
Download: Illinois-2011-HB3598-Introduced.html
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| 1 | AN ACT concerning public health.
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| 2 | Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
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| 3 | represented in the General Assembly:
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| 4 | Section 5. The Lead Poisoning Prevention Act is amended by | |||||||||||||||||||
| 5 | changing Section 9.1 as follows:
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| 6 | (410 ILCS 45/9.1) (from Ch. 111 1/2, par. 1309.1)
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| 7 | Sec. 9.1. Owner's obligation to give notice. An owner of a
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| 8 | dwelling unit or residential building who has received a | |||||||||||||||||||
| 9 | mitigation notice
under Section 9 of this Act shall, before | |||||||||||||||||||
| 10 | entering into a lease
agreement for the dwelling unit for which | |||||||||||||||||||
| 11 | the
mitigation notice was issued, provide prospective lessees | |||||||||||||||||||
| 12 | of that
unit with written notice that a lead hazard has | |||||||||||||||||||
| 13 | previously been
identified in the dwelling unit, unless the | |||||||||||||||||||
| 14 | owner has obtained a
certificate of compliance for the unit | |||||||||||||||||||
| 15 | under Section 9. An owner
may satisfy this notice requirement | |||||||||||||||||||
| 16 | by providing the prospective
lessee with a copy of the | |||||||||||||||||||
| 17 | inspection report prepared pursuant to Section 9.
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| 18 | Before entering into a residential lease agreement, all | |||||||||||||||||||
| 19 | owners
of residential buildings or dwelling units built before | |||||||||||||||||||
| 20 | 1978
shall give prospective lessees information on the | |||||||||||||||||||
| 21 | potential
health hazards posed by lead in residential dwellings | |||||||||||||||||||
| 22 | by providing the
prospective lessee with a copy of an | |||||||||||||||||||
| 23 | informational brochure prepared by the
Department. Within one | |||||||||||||||||||
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| 1 | year of the effective date of this amendatory Act of
1992, | ||||||
| 2 | owners of residential buildings or dwelling units built before | ||||||
| 3 | 1978 shall
provide current lessees with such brochure.
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| 4 | Before entering into an agreement for the sale of a | ||||||
| 5 | residential building or dwelling unit built before 1978, all | ||||||
| 6 | owners shall provide prospective purchasers with the following | ||||||
| 7 | information: | ||||||
| 8 | (i) information on the potential health hazards posed | ||||||
| 9 | by lead in residential dwellings by providing the potential | ||||||
| 10 | purchaser with a copy of an informational brochure prepared | ||||||
| 11 | by the Department; and | ||||||
| 12 | (ii) disclosure to the purchaser concerning the | ||||||
| 13 | presence of any known lead-based paint or any known | ||||||
| 14 | lead-based paint hazards in the residential building or | ||||||
| 15 | dwelling unit and provide to the purchaser any lead hazard | ||||||
| 16 | evaluation reports or records available to the seller. | ||||||
| 17 | Every contract for the purchase of any residential building | ||||||
| 18 | or dwelling unit built before 1978 shall include a statement | ||||||
| 19 | signed by the purchaser that the purchaser has (1) received the | ||||||
| 20 | lead hazard information brochure and (2) received either | ||||||
| 21 | information on known lead-based paint or lead hazards or a | ||||||
| 22 | written statement from the seller that the seller is not aware | ||||||
| 23 | of the presence of any known lead-based paint or any known | ||||||
| 24 | lead-based paint hazards in the housing. | ||||||
| 25 | (Source: P.A. 87-1144.)
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| 26 | Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon | ||||||
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| 1 | becoming law.
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