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Bill	HUMAN RTS-LANGUAGE-WORKPLACE	Amends the Illinois Human Rights Act. Provides that it is a civil rights violation for any employer to adopt or enforce a policy that limits or prohibits the use of any language in any workplace, unless the language restriction is justified by a business necessity and the employer has notified its employees of (i) the circumstances and the time when the language restriction is required to be observed and (ii) the consequences for violating the language restriction. Defines "business necessity".	us/states/il	Illinois General Assembly	93rd	SB 679	Illinois SB 679 (93rd)	bill		enacted		3	42	3	2003-02-19	2003-07-18	openstates	ocd-bill/fc7d9b9c-d074-4035-8e73-a28eacbca0b5	http://ilga.gov/legislation/BillStatus.asp?DocNum=679&GAID=3&DocTypeID=SB&LegId=3347&SessionID=3&GA=93	1c1cd0971e41092dbcfd5d2438067c53ed17f182a3de6fbae511fbe00621895e	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-il

Illinois SB 679 (93rd) — HUMAN RTS-LANGUAGE-WORKPLACE

Amends the Illinois Human Rights Act. Provides that it is a civil rights violation for any employer to adopt or enforce a policy that limits or prohibits the use of any language in any workplace, unless the language restriction is justified by a business necessity and the employer has notified its employees of (i) the circumstances and the time when the language restriction is required to be observed and (ii) the consequences for violating the language restriction. Defines "business necessity".

Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. Introduced (filed) — source
2. Engrossed (committee substitute) — source
3. Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Concurrence, Amendment 1 — 58–0 (pass) · upper
• Third Reading — 116–1 (pass) · lower
• Third Reading — 54–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Martin A. Sandoval — primary (person)

Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

• 2003-02-19 Filed with Secretary by Sen. Martin A. Sandoval filing
• 2003-02-19 First Reading reading-1
• 2003-02-19 Referred to Rules referral-committee
• 2003-02-26 Assigned to Judiciary referral-committee
• 2003-03-05 Postponed - Judiciary
• 2003-03-13 Do Pass Judiciary; 009-000-000 committee-passage
• 2003-03-13 Placed on Calendar Order of 2nd Reading March 18, 2003
• 2003-03-18 Second Reading reading-2
• 2003-03-18 Placed on Calendar Order of 3rd Reading March 19, 2003
• 2003-03-20 Added as Chief Co-Sponsor Sen. Barack Obama
• 2003-03-20 Third Reading - Passed; 054-000-001 reading-3, passage
• 2003-03-20 Arrived in House introduction
• 2003-03-20 Placed on Calendar Order of First Reading reading-1
• 2003-03-26 Chief House Sponsor Rep. Edward J. Acevedo
• 2003-03-26 Added Alternate Chief Co-Sponsor Rep. John A. Fritchey
• 2003-03-26 First Reading reading-1
• 2003-03-26 Referred to Rules Committee referral-committee
• 2003-03-31 Assigned to Judiciary I - Civil Law Committee referral-committee
• 2003-04-16 Added Alternate Chief Co-Sponsor Rep. Maria Antonia Berrios
• 2003-04-16 Added Alternate Chief Co-Sponsor Rep. Susana Mendoza
• 2003-05-01 Do Pass / Short Debate Judiciary I - Civil Law Committee; 017-000-000 committee-passage
• 2003-05-01 Placed on Calendar 2nd Reading - Short Debate
• 2003-05-13 House Floor Amendment No. 1 Filed with Clerk by Rep. Edward J. Acevedo amendment-introduction
• 2003-05-13 House Floor Amendment No. 1 Referred to Rules Committee referral-committee
• 2003-05-14 House Floor Amendment No. 1 Recommends Be Adopted Rules Committee; 003-002-000 committee-passage-favorable
• 2003-05-16 Committee/3rd Reading Deadline Extended-Rule 9(b); May 23, 2003
• 2003-05-20 Second Reading - Short Debate reading-2
• 2003-05-20 House Floor Amendment No. 1 Adopted by Voice Vote amendment-passage
• 2003-05-20 Placed on Calendar Order of 3rd Reading - Short Debate
• 2003-05-21 Third Reading - Short Debate - Passed 116-001-000 reading-3, passage
• 2003-05-22 Secretary's Desk - Concurrence House Amendment(s) 01
• 2003-05-22 Placed on Calendar Order of Concurrence House Amendment(s) 01 - May 23, 2003
• 2003-05-22 House Floor Amendment No. 1 Motion to Concur Filed with Secretary Sen. Martin A. Sandoval filing
• 2003-05-22 House Floor Amendment No. 1 Motion to Concur Referred to Rules referral-committee
• 2003-05-28 House Floor Amendment No. 1 Motion to Concur Rules Referred to Judiciary referral-committee
• 2003-05-28 House Floor Amendment No. 1 Motion to Concur Be Approved for Consideration Judiciary; 007-000-000
• 2003-05-29 House Floor Amendment No. 1 Senate Concurs 058-000-000
• 2003-05-29 Passed Both Houses
• 2003-06-27 Sent to the Governor executive-receipt
• 2003-07-18 Governor Approved executive-signature
• 2003-07-18 Effective Date January 1, 2004
• 2003-07-18 Public Act . . . . . . . . . 93-0217 became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/fc7d9b9c-d074-4035-8e73-a28eacbca0b5. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Illinois legislature records).