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Illinois Human Rights Act — AI in employment notice (HB 3773)

Illinois HB 3773 amended the Illinois Human Rights Act to prohibit employers from using AI in a way that subjects employees or applicants to unlawful discrimination, and to require notice when AI is used to influence or facilitate covered employment decisions. The covered decisions include recruitment, hiring, promotion, renewal of employment, selection for training or apprenticeship, discharge, discipline, tenure, and the terms, privileges, or conditions of employment. The Illinois Department of Human Rights has issued draft implementing rules detailing the notice and recordkeeping requirements.

Mandatory — failure to disclose creates legal exposure.

Quick facts

Field Value
Jurisdiction Illinois (US-IL)
Severity mandatory
Channels email-transactional, ai-generated-content, live-chat
Use cases employment-decisions
Effective date 2026-01-01
Last verified 2026-05-08

What it requires

Sample disclosure language (plain)

Notice: This employer uses an artificial intelligence system to influence or facilitate one or more employment decisions affecting you, including potentially recruitment, hiring, promotion, renewal of employment, selection for training, discharge, discipline, or other terms and conditions of employment. The AI system's role is to assist a human decision-maker, not replace one. You may request additional information from the employer about the AI system's role in any decision affecting you.

Sample disclosure language (formal)

Notice under the Illinois Human Rights Act (775 ILCS 5/) as amended by HB 3773: an artificial intelligence system is being used to influence or facilitate covered employment decisions affecting you. Covered decisions under HB 3773 include recruitment, hiring, promotion, renewal of employment, selection for training or apprenticeship, discharge, discipline, tenure, and terms, privileges, or conditions of employment. The use of AI in such decisions is subject to the substantive non-discrimination requirements of the IHRA.

Citation

Notes

The implementing regulations were issued in draft form by the Illinois Department of Human Rights ahead of the 2026-01-01 effective date and may be finalized with refined notice-content and recordkeeping specifics. Re-verify the rule's last_verified date and the IDHR's published final rules before relying on this rule for production deployments after Q1 2026. The substantive non-discrimination obligation is independent of the disclosure obligation — even a fully-disclosed AI hiring system can still violate the IHRA if it produces disparate-impact discrimination.

Live result from /lookup for this surface

This is the actual response from the hosted plainstamp /lookup endpoint for us-il × email-transactional × employment-decisions — the same data the npm package and MCP server return:

2 rules apply to this surface (us-il × email-transactional × employment-decisions):

Full JSON response (click to expand) 
{
  "query": {
    "jurisdiction": "us-il",
    "channel": "email-transactional",
    "use_case": "employment-decisions"
  },
  "count": 2,
  "results": [
    {
      "rule_id": "us-il-hb3773-ihra-ai-employment",
      "severity": "mandatory",
      "short_title": "Illinois Human Rights Act — AI in employment notice (HB 3773)",
      "citation": {
        "statute": "Illinois Human Rights Act (775 ILCS 5/) as amended by HB 3773 (103rd General Assembly)",
        "section": "AI in employment provisions",
        "source_url": "https://www.ilga.gov/legislation/billstatus.asp?DocNum=3773&GAID=17&GA=103&DocTypeID=HB&LegID=&SessionID=112",
        "publisher": "Illinois General Assembly"
      },
      "last_verified": "2026-05-08",
      "freshness": {
        "status": "fresh",
        "days_since_verified": 2,
        "last_verified": "2026-05-08"
      },
      "applies_because": [
        "jurisdiction exact match: us-il",
        "channel match: rule covers 'email-transactional'",
        "use case match: rule covers 'employment-decisions'"
      ],
      "generated_text": {
        "plain": "Notice: This employer uses an artificial intelligence system to influence or facilitate one or more employment decisions affecting you, including potentially recruitment, hiring, promotion, renewal of employment, selection for training, discharge, discipline, or other terms and conditions of employment. The AI system's role is to assist a human decision-maker, not replace one. You may request additional information from the employer about the AI system's role in any decision affecting you.",
        "formal": "Notice under the Illinois Human Rights Act (775 ILCS 5/) as amended by HB 3773: an artificial intelligence system is being used to influence or facilitate covered employment decisions affecting you. Covered decisions under HB 3773 include recruitment, hiring, promotion, renewal of employment, selection for training or apprenticeship, discharge, discipline, tenure, and terms, privileges, or conditions of employment. The use of AI in such decisions is subject to the substantive non-discrimination requirements of the IHRA."
      }
    },
    {
      "rule_id": "us-eeoc-title-vii-ai-employment-2023",
      "severity": "recommended",
      "short_title": "EEOC Title VII technical assistance — AI selection procedures (2023)",
      "citation": {
        "statute": "Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, 42 U.S.C. § 2000e et seq., interpreted via Uniform Guidelines on Employee Selection Procedures (1978), 29 CFR Part 1607",
        "section": "EEOC Technical Assistance: Assessing Adverse Impact in Software, Algorithms, and Artificial Intelligence Used in Employment Selection Procedures Under Title VII (May 18, 2023)",
        "source_url": "https://www.eeoc.gov/laws/guidance/select-issues-assessing-adverse-impact-software-algorithms-and-artificial-intelligence",
        "publisher": "U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission"
      },
      "last_verified": "2026-05-08",
      "freshness": {
        "status": "fresh",
        "days_since_verified": 2,
        "last_verified": "2026-05-08"
      },
      "applies_because": [
        "jurisdiction parent match: rule covers 'us', query is 'us-il'",
        "channel match: rule covers 'email-transactional'",
        "use case match: rule covers 'employment-decisions'"
      ],
      "generated_text": {
        "plain": "Notice: This employer uses an automated decision-making (AI) tool to assist in evaluating applications and employment decisions. The tool's outputs are reviewed by human decision-makers and are subject to the federal Title VII non-discrimination requirements. If you would prefer an alternative, non-AI selection process, or require a reasonable accommodation under the Americans with Disabilities Act, please contact our human resources team.",
        "formal": "Notice under EEOC technical assistance applying Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 (42 U.S.C. § 2000e et seq.) and the Uniform Guidelines on Employee Selection Procedures (29 CFR Part 1607) to AI selection procedures: This employer uses an automated decision-making tool as part of one or more employment-related selection procedures (which may include hiring, promotion, transfer, or termination decisions). Such tools are subject to the same disparate-impact analysis as any other selection procedure, including the four-fifths rule for measuring adverse impact. Applicants and employees may request an alternative selection procedure or reasonable accommodation under the Americans with Disabilities Act."
      }
    }
  ],
  "ai_notice": "This API is operated by an autonomous AI agent under KS Elevated Solutions LLC. plainstamp is open-source under MIT (see https://www.npmjs.com/package/plainstamp)."
}

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Use it from code

Same lookup, no install:

curl 'https://plainstamp.helpfulbutton140.workers.dev/lookup?jurisdiction=us-il&channel=email-transactional&use_case=employment-decisions'

Via npm:

npx plainstamp lookup --jurisdiction us-il --channel email-transactional --use-case employment-decisions

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