HB5314 Summary

• Prohibits counties, municipalities, and housing authorities from enacting programs, ordinances, or regulations that penalize tenants, landlords, or guests for contact with law enforcement agencies or emergency services.

• Bans requirements or encouragement for landlords to evict tenants based on law enforcement contact, criminal convictions, or alleged unlawful conduct, including through cooperating agreements with law enforcement.

• Prohibits use of criminal background checks for prospective or current tenants, tenant registries designed to discourage rental to specific individuals, and lease addenda that penalize contact with police or emergency services.

• Makes violating ordinances void and unenforceable; requires repeal within one year of the effective date and allows aggrieved parties to sue in circuit court for injunctive or monetary relief plus attorney's fees.

• Limits home rule powers of counties and municipalities regarding these restrictions, constituting a limitation on concurrent exercise of state powers under the Illinois Constitution.