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745 ILCS 70/13.5 (2026)

Violations related to COVID-19 requirements

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(745 ILCS 70/13.5)
    Sec. 13.5. Violations related to COVID-19 requirements. It is not a violation of this Act for any person or public official, or for any public or private association, agency, corporation, entity, institution, or employer, to take any measures or impose any requirements, including, but not limited to, any measures or requirements that involve provision of services by a physician or health care personnel, intended to prevent contraction or transmission of COVID-19 or any pathogens that result in COVID-19 or any of its subsequent iterations. It is not a violation of this Act to enforce such measures or requirements. This Section is a declaration of existing law and shall not be construed as a new enactment. Accordingly, this Section shall apply to all actions commenced or pending on or after the effective date of this amendatory Act of the 102nd General Assembly. Nothing in this Section is intended to affect any right or remedy under federal law.
(Source: P.A. 102-667, eff. 6-1-22.)

    
Notes of Decisions
Cited in 7 cases (7 in the last 5 years), 2022–2025 · leading case: Lenz v. Advocate Health & Hospitals Corp., 2023 IL App (1st) 230740 (Ill. App. Ct. 2023).
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Lenz v. Advocate Health & Hospitals Corp., 2023 IL App (1st) 230740 (Ill. App. Ct. 2023). · cites it 4× “5 of the Act (745 ILCS 70/13.5 (West Supp. 2021)) and by federal preemption.”
Graham v. Pekin Fire Dept., 2022 IL App (4th) 220270 (Ill. App. Ct. 2022). “June 1, 2022) (adding 745 ILCS 70/13.5) may be used as an interpretive aid when construing section 5 of the Conscience Act.”
Goodrich v. Good Samaritan Reg'l Health Ctr., 2023 IL App (5th) 220510-U (Ill. App. Ct. 2023). · cites it 3× “745 ILCS 70/13.5; Exec. Order No, 2021-22 (Sept.”
Kopp v. Silver Cross Hosp. & Med. Ctr., 2025 IL App (3d) 240414 (Ill. App. Ct. 2025). · cites it 4× “5 of the Act (745 ILCS 70/13.5 (West 2022)) would bar plaintiffs’ claims.”
Boone v. Illinois Dep't of Corr. (IDOC) (C.D. Ill. 2023). · cites it 2× “745 ILCS 70/13.5 (emphasis added). Plaintiffs assert that as the Amendment exempts Covid mitigation measures from HCRCA protections, it violates the Illinois Religious Freedom Restoration Act (“IRFRA”), the Free Exercise Clause of the U.”
Boone v. Illinois Dep't of Corr. (IDOC) (C.D. Ill. 2022). “745 ILCS 70/13.5 (emphasis added). Plaintiffs plead that the amendment violates the IRFRA as it places a substantial burden of their religious beliefs without a sufficiently compelling governmental interest and where there are less restrictive ways of furthering the governmental…”
Snyder v. Chicago Transit Auth. (CTA) (N.D. Ill. 2023). “745 ILCS 70/13.5 (“This Section is a declaration of existing law and shall not be construed as a new enactment.”
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