Illinois HB 3152: GENERAL ASSEMBLY PRIVACY ACT

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 Illinois General Assembly

 ILGA.GOV 

 HB3152 - 104th General Assembly 

104TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY 
State of Illinois 
2025 and 2026
HB3152

Introduced 2/18/2025, by Rep. David Friess 

SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:

New Act

 Creates the General Assembly Privacy Act. Provides that government agencies shall not publicly post or display publicly available content that includes a member of the General Assembly's personal information, provided that the government agency has received a written request from the member. Prohibits a person, business, or association from soliciting, selling, or trading on the Internet a members's personal information with the intent to pose an imminent and serious threat to the health and safety of the member's immediate family. Allows for civil damages of not less than $10,000. Makes it a Class 3 felony to knowingly post personal information of the member's immediate family, if the person knows or reasonably should know the posting poses an imminent and serious threat to the health and safety of the member or the member's immediate family, and the posting is a proximate cause of bodily injury or death of the member or the member's immediate family.

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A BILL FOR

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1 AN ACT concerning State government.

2 Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, 

3represented in the General Assembly:

4Article 1. GENERAL PROVISIONS

5 Section 1-1. Short title. This Act may be cited as the 

6General Assembly Privacy Act.

7 Section 1-5. Definitions. As used in this Act:

8 "Government agency" includes all agencies, authorities, 

9boards, commissions, departments, institutions, offices, and 

10any other bodies politic and corporate of the State created by 

11the constitution or statute, whether in the executive, 

12judicial, or legislative branch; all units and corporate 

13outgrowths created by executive order of the Governor or any 

14constitutional officer, by the Supreme Court, or by resolution 

15of the General Assembly; or agencies, authorities, boards, 

16commissions, departments, institutions, offices, and any other 

17bodies politic and corporate of a unit of local government, or 

18school district.

19 "Home address" includes a member's permanent residence and 

20any secondary residences affirmatively identified by the 

21member, but does not include a member's work address.

22 "Immediate family" includes a member's spouse, child, 

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1parent, or any blood relative of the member or the member's 

2spouse who lives in the same residence.

3 "Member" means a member of the Illinois General Assembly.

4 "Personal information" means a home address, home 

5telephone number, mobile telephone number, pager number, 

6personal email address, social security number, federal tax 

7identification number, checking and savings account numbers, 

8credit card numbers, marital status, and identity of children 

9under the age of 18.

10 "Publicly available content" means any written, printed, 

11or electronic document or record that provides information or 

12that serves as a document or record maintained, controlled, or 

13in the possession of a government agency that may be obtained 

14by any person or entity, from the Internet, from the 

15government agency upon request either free of charge or for a 

16fee, or in response to a request under the Freedom of 

17Information Act.

18 "Publicly post" or "publicly display" means to communicate 

19to another or otherwise make available to the general public.

20 "Written request" means written notice signed by a member 

21or a representative of the member's employer requesting a 

22government agency, person, business, or association to refrain 

23from posting or displaying publicly available content that 

24includes the member's personal information.

25Article 5. CIVIL PROVISIONS

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1 Section 5-1. Publicly posting or displaying a member's 

2personal information by government agencies.

3 (a) Government agencies shall not publicly post or display 

4publicly available content that includes a member's personal 

5information, provided that the government agency has received 

6a written request in accordance with Section 5-5 that it 

7refrain from disclosing the member's personal information. 

8After a government agency has received a written request, that 

9agency shall remove the member's personal information from 

10publicly available content within 5 business days. After the 

11government agency has removed the member's personal 

12information from publicly available content, the agency shall 

13not publicly post or display the information and the member's 

14personal information shall be exempt from the Freedom of 

15Information Act unless the government agency has received 

16consent from the member to make the personal inform