(This Section may contain text from a Public Act with a delayed effective date)
- (a) The Director of the Illinois Department of Human Rights shall prepare a summary identifying the key rights and remedies of tenants or household members of tenants who are survivors of domestic violence or sexual violence under the following 6 Illinois statutes: the Safe Homes Act; the Eviction Article in the Code of Civil Procedure; the Illinois Human Rights Act; and Section 8-201.6 of the Public Utilities Act providing for the deferral of deposit for victims of domestic violence and ordinances that prohibit penalizing tenants who contact police or other emergency services in Section 1-2-1.5 of the Illinois Municipal Code and Section 5-1005.10 of the Counties Code. The Director shall make this summary available for public inspection and copying no later than 60 days after this bill becomes law.
- (b) Space must be provided at the bottom of each page of the summary that the tenant may sign as acknowledgment of the tenant's receipt of the summary as attached to a paper version of the lease or inserted into an electronic version of the lease.
- (c) The summary described in this Act shall be prepared in consultation with Illinois domestic and sexual violence service providers.
(Source: P.A. 103-1031, eff. 1-1-26.)