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| | 104TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2025 and 2026
HB1845 Introduced 1/29/2025, by Rep. John M. Cabello SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
| | | Creates the Illinois Right of Conscience Act. Provides that every person has the right to refuse to speak, create art or crafts, perform or participate in any way in any particular form of services that is contrary to that person's conscience. |
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| | HB1845 | | LRB104 07398 JRC 17439 b |
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| 1 | | AN ACT concerning civil law.
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| 2 | | Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, |
| 3 | | represented in the General Assembly:
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| 4 | | Section 1. Short title. This Act may be cited as the |
| 5 | | Illinois Right of Conscience Act.
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| 6 | | Section 5. Legislative Intent. It is the public policy of |
| 7 | | Illinois that every person has the right of conscientious |
| 8 | | refusal to speak, create art or crafts, perform or participate |
| 9 | | in any way in any particular form of services contrary to his |
| 10 | | or her conscience.
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| 11 | | Section 10. Immunity. No person may be civilly or criminal |
| 12 | | liable for a refusal to speak, create art or crafts, perform or |
| 13 | | participate in any way in any particular form of services |
| 14 | | contrary to that person's conscience. |