Bill
HB 3163
HB 3163 shields abortion-care providers' personal info by allowing written non-disclosure requests, adding FOIA exemptions, and enabling civil/criminal remedies.
Status and sponsors
- Bill: HB 3163 (introduced Feb 21, 2025) — primary sponsor Rep. Jaime M. Andrade, Jr.; co‑sponsors Rep. Natalie A. Manley, Rep. Harry Benton, Rep. Barbara Hernandez.
- Legislative status (selected): Passed House (readings 2/18–4/29/2025), reported engrossed 4/29/2025; currently listed as Rule 19(a) / Re‑referred to Rules Committee. Companion: SB 643.
Purpose / intent
- To protect the personal information and safety of health care professionals who provide abortion‑related care by (1) enabling those professionals to request non‑disclosure of personal information, (2) creating a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) exemption for that information, (3) requiring government bodies and private entities to refrain from posting such information after receiving a written request, and (4) establishing civil and criminal remedies for violations.
Key provisions
- Written non‑disclosure request: A health care professional who provides abortion‑related care may submit a written request to any governmental agency, person, business, or association asking that they refrain from disclosing the health care professional’s personal information.
- Governmental duties: If a governmental agency receives such a request, it must not publicly post or display content that includes the professional’s personal information.
- Private parties: A person, business, or association that receives the written request must refrain from publicly posting or displaying on the Internet content that includes the professional’s personal information.
- FOIA exemption: The bill amends the Freedom of Information Act (5 ILCS 140/7.5) to exempt the personal information of health care professionals who provide abortion‑related care from public inspection and copying to the extent provided by the bill.
- Limits on commercial transfer: Prohibits soliciting, selling, or trading a health care professional’s personal information with the intent to post an imminent or serious threat to the professional or the professional’s immediate family.
- Civil remedies: Authorizes a health care professional to bring an action against a governmental agency, person, business, or association for injunctive or declaratory relief if the written request is violated.
- Criminal penalty: Makes it a Class 3 felony for any person to knowingly and publicly post on the Internet the personal information of a health care professional or the professional’s immediate family where the person knows that the posting poses an imminent and serious threat to health or safety and the posting is a proximate cause of bodily injury or death.
Who is affected
- Health care professionals who provide abortion‑related care (gain privacy protections and enforcement options).
- State and local governmental agencies (obligated to stop public posting/display of the specified personal information upon receipt of a written request and affected by the new FOIA exemption).
- Private persons, businesses, and associations (required to refrain from posting such information after receiving a request; restricted from soliciting/selling data with malicious intent).
- The public and journalists (reduced access to certain personal information previously available via public postings or FOIA requests).
Potential impacts and notes
- Enhances privacy and safety protections for abortion care providers and their immediate family members; creates both civil and criminal enforcement pathways.
- Alters FOIA public‑access boundaries by creating a statutory exemption for specified personal information, which could limit disclosure of some records that otherwise might be available under current law.
- Applies upon receipt of a written request by the health care professional — protections are triggered by that procedural step.
- Criminal sanction is narrowly defined to cases involving knowledge of an imminent/serious threat and proximate causation of bodily injury or death (Class 3 felony).
For further tracking
- Monitor Rules Committee action and companion SB 643 for Senate progress and any substantive amendments.
Compiled from official sources — confirm details with the bill’s official record.
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