Bill Text: IL HB4528 | 2023-2024 | 103rd General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Amends the Rental Property Utility Service Act. Provides that a landlord shall repair any leaking water pipe of a tenant within 30 days of the landlord being notified of a leak. Provides that this requirement applies if the leaking water pipe is under the landlord's control, but it does not apply if the leaking water pipe is owned by a municipality or water utility. Provides that, if a landlord violates this provision and the tenant pays the water bill, the landlord is liable for any additional costs incurred by the tenant as a result of the water leak.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-04-19 - Rule 19(a) / Re-referred to Rules Committee [HB4528 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2023-HB4528-Introduced.html

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103RD GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2023 and 2024 HB4528 Introduced , by Rep. Joyce Mason SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
765 ILCS 735/1.5 new
765 ILCS 735/2.1 from Ch. 80, par. 63.1
Amends the Rental Property Utility Service Act. Provides that a landlord shall repair any leaking water pipe of a tenant within 30 days of the landlord being notified of a leak. Provides that this requirement applies if the leaking water pipe is under the landlord's control, but it does not apply if the leaking water pipe is owned by a municipality or water utility. Provides that, if a landlord violates this provision and the tenant pays the water bill, the landlord is liable for any additional costs incurred by the tenant as a result of the water leak.
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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 Rental Property Utility Service Act is
amended by adding Section 1.5 and changing Section 2.1 as
follows:
(765 ILCS 735/1.5 new)
Sec. 1.5. Repair of leaking water pipes. A landlord shall
repair any leaking water pipe of a tenant within 30 days of the
landlord being notified of a leak. This requirement applies if
the leaking water pipe is under the landlord's control. This
requirement does not apply if the leaking water pipe is owned
by a municipality or water utility.
(765 ILCS 735/2.1) (from Ch. 80, par. 63.1)
Sec. 2.1. Tenant damages.
(a) A landlord's violation of Section 1.4 entitles the
residential tenant to damages from the landlord in the amount
of a 100% abatement of the rental obligation for each month,
and prorated for each part of a month, that the utility service
was terminated and to consequential damages. The tenant has a
duty to mitigate damages.
(b) When utility service is terminated as a result of the

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