Board of Commissioners of Cook County - File #: 19-4770

• File #: 19-4770
• Version: 4
• Name: JUST HOUSING AMENDMENT INTERPRETIVE RULES
• Type: Proposed Changes to Public Facing Rules and Regulations
• Status: Filed
• File created: 7/19/2019
• In control: Rules and Administration Committee
• On agenda: 7/25/2019
• Final action: 11/21/2019
• Title: PROPOSED SECOND SUBSTITUTE TO FILE 19-4770 (Rules Committee 11/20/2019) REPLACES ALL PRIOR VERSIONS OF THIS FILE ID SUGGESTED MODIFICATIONS TO PUBLIC FACING RULES AND REGULATIONS PART 700 JUST HOUSING AMENDMENT INTERPRETIVE RULES Section 700.100 Prohibition of Discrimination Article II of the Cook County Human Rights Ordinance ("Ordinance") prohibits unlawful discrimination, as defined in ?42-31, against a person because of any of the following: race, color, sex, age, religion, disability, national origin, ancestry, sexual orientation, marital status, parental status, military discharge, source of income, gender identity or housing status. Additionally, any written or unwritten housing policy or practice that discriminates against applicants based on their criminal history, as defined in ? 42-38(a) of the Ordinance, is a violation of the Ordinance. Any written or unwritten housing policy or practice which discriminates against applicants based on their convictions, as def...
• Indexes: (Inactive) N. KEITH CHAMBERS, Executive Director, Department of Human Rights and Ethics

Date	Ver.	Action By	Motion	Result
11/21/2019	3	Board of Commissioners	receive and file	Pass
11/20/2019	3	Rules and Administration Committee	accept as substituted	Pass
11/20/2019	4	Rules and Administration Committee	recommend for receiving and filing	Pass
10/23/2019	2	Rules and Administration Committee	reconsider rules, file response to why agency did not follow recommendations of the Committee pursuant to Section 1-9 of the County Code, send a revised draft of rules to the Committee and the Committee will hold the current draft of rules	Pass
9/25/2019	2	Rules and Administration Committee	recommend for approval as substituted	Pass
9/25/2019	2	Rules and Administration Committee	refer	Pass
9/4/2019	1	Rules and Administration Committee	recommend for deferral	Pass
7/25/2019	1	Board of Commissioners	refer	Pass

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PROPOSED SECOND SUBSTITUTE TO FILE 19-4770 (Rules Committee 11/20/2019)
REPLACES ALL PRIOR VERSIONS OF THIS FILE
ID SUGGESTED MODIFICATIONS TO PUBLIC FACING RULES AND REGULATIONS

PART 700
JUST HOUSING AMENDMENT INTERPRETIVE RULES




Section 700.100

Prohibition of Discrimination





Article II of the Cook County Human Rights Ordinance ("Ordinance") prohibits unlawful discrimination, as defined in ?42-31, against a person because of any of the following: race, color, sex, age, religion, disability, national origin, ancestry, sexual orientation, marital status, parental status, military discharge, source of income, gender identity or housing status.

Additionally, any written or unwritten housing policy or practice that discriminates against applicants based on their criminal history, as defined in ? 42-38(a) of the Ordinance, is a violation of the Ordinance. Any written or unwritten housing policy or practice which discriminates against applicants based on their convictions, as defined in ? 42-38(a) of the Ordinance, prior to the completion of an individualized assessment violates the Ordinance.

Nothing in this section shall be interpreted as prohibiting a housing provider from denying housing to an applicant based on their criminal conviction history when required by federal or state law.

SUBPART 710 AUTHORITY AND APPLICABILITY

Section 710.100 Authority

These rules are adopted in accordance with the authority vested in the Cook County Commission on Human Rights ("Commission"), pursuant to ? 42-34(e)(5) and ?42-38(c)(5)(c) of the Ordinance, to adopt rules and regulations necessary to implement the Commission's powers.

Section 710.110 Applicability

These rules shall go into effect on the effective date of the Just Housing Amendment (No. 19-2394) to the Ordinance and shall only apply to claims that arise out of actions that occur on or after the effective date of the amendments.

SUBPART 720
DEFINITIONS

Section 720.100

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