United States of America: Rejected Illinois Bill including rules on predictive analytics in hiring (HB1811)

On 10 January 2023, House Bill 1181 including rules on predictive analytics in hiring was rejected after failing to pass before the legislature session adjourned. It would have added amendments to the Equal Pay Act and the Consumer Fraud and Deceptive Business Practices Act. These amendments would have provided that the use of predictive data analytics could not have included inferences about the race or postcode of the applicant/employee. In addition, an amendment would have been added to amend the Illinois Human Rights Act to specify that nothing in the law would have been construed to prevent the use of predictive data analytics to assist in the inclusion of diverse applicants in hiring decisions.