IL HB1943

Creates the Public Duty Rule Codification Act to codify the public duty rule doctrine in Illinois law.

Establishes that local governmental entities and their employees owe no duty of care to individual members of the general public to provide governmental services.

References the Illinois Supreme Court's January 22, 2016 decision in Coleman v. East Joliet Fire Protection District, which abolished the public duty rule, and seeks to reinstate it through legislation.

Finds that the public duty rule is grounded in the principle that a local governmental entity's duty to preserve community well-being is owed to the public at large rather than to specific individuals.