HB4415 Summary

• Amends the Illinois Human Rights Act definition of "disability" to include a person's association or relationship with a person who has a disability characteristic.

• Removes language stating that discrimination based on disability includes unlawful discrimination against an individual because of their association with a person with a disability.

• Modifies disability definition to clarify it encompasses a person's "association or relationship with a person with such characteristic" rather than only "association with a person with a disability."

• Takes effect immediately upon becoming law.