IL HB2216

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

Abolishes the common law distinction between invitees and licensees, requiring owners or occupiers of premises to owe a duty of reasonable care under the circumstances to all invited entrants.

Specifies that the reasonable care duty does not include warnings about known, open, or obvious conditions; latent defects unknown to the owner; dangers from entrant misuse; or protection from entrants' own misuse of the premises.

Provides that owners or occupiers owe no duty of care to adult trespassers except to refrain from willful and wanton conduct endangering known trespassers, while preserving existing law regarding trespassing child entrants.

Applies these reenacted provisions to causes of action accruing on or after the effective date of this amendatory act by the 98th General Assembly.