(Nekritz, D-Buffalo Grove; Steans, D-Chicago) makes a number of changes to this Act. (1) Exempts from FOIA any information collected by the Department of Financial and Professional Regulation. This exemption does not extend to educational, training, and outreach material, statistical data, or operational information maintained by the Department in administering the Act. (2) Clarifies that neither the Ombudsperson nor the Department has the authority to consider matters that may constitute unlawful discrimination under local, State, or federal law. (3) Makes numerous technical changes including deleting the registration requirement by an entity. (4) Pushes back the repeal date of the entire Act by one year to July 1, 2022. Passed both chambers.
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Condominium and Common Interest Community Ombudsperson Act