IL HB1899

Reenacts provisions of Public Act 89-7 that amended Sections 2 and 3 of the Premises Liability Act, which were previously voided in their entirety by the Illinois Supreme Court in Best v. Taylor Machine Works (1997).

Abolishes the common law distinction between invitees and licensees, establishing that owners or occupiers of premises owe invited entrants a duty of reasonable care regarding the state of premises and acts conducted on them.

Specifies that reasonable care duty does not include warning of known conditions, open and obvious hazards, latent defects unknown to the owner, dangers from entrant misuse, or protection from entrant's own misuse of the premises.

Provides that owners or occupiers of land owe adult trespassers no duty of care except to refrain from willful and wanton conduct endangering the safety of known trespassers from property conditions or activities conducted by the owner or occupier.

Applies the reenacted provisions to causes of action accruing on or after the effective date of the bill, with the law on trespassing child entrants remaining unchanged.