Bill Text: IL SB1440 | 2023-2024 | 103rd General Assembly | Chaptered

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Bill Title: Amends the Consumer Fraud and Deceptive Business Practices Act. Provides that it is an unlawful practice under the Act to knowingly mail or send a postcard or letter to a recipient in the State if the postcard or letter does not disclose or disclaim any and all affiliations or lack thereof. Provides that all disclosures and disclaimers appearing on a postcard or letter must be conspicuously located at the top of the postcard or letter, be easily readable in clear and unambiguous language, and be printed in at least 14-point bold-face font in a black-outlined box. Prohibits mail that requests that the recipient contact the sender by mail, telephone, email, website, or other prescribed means without specified disclosure requirements. Makes other changes.

Spectrum: Strong Partisan Bill (Democrat 23-2)

Status: (Passed) 2023-06-09 - Public Act . . . . . . . . . 103-0087 [SB1440 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2023-SB1440-Chaptered.html

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Public Act 103-0087
SB1440 Enrolled LRB103 29437 SPS 55828 b
AN ACT concerning business.
Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
represented in the General Assembly:
Section 5. The Consumer Fraud and Deceptive Business
Practices Act is amended by changing Section 2PP as follows:
(815 ILCS 505/2PP)
Sec. 2PP. Mail; disclosure.
(a) It is an unlawful practice under this Act to knowingly
mail or send or cause to be mailed or sent a postcard or letter
to a recipient in this State if:
(1) the postcard or letter contains a request that the
recipient contact the sender by mail, telephone, email,
website, or other prescribed means call a telephone
number; and
(2) the postcard or letter is mailed or sent to induce
the recipient to contact the sender by mail, telephone,
email, website, or other prescribed means call the
telephone number so that goods, services, or other
merchandise, as defined in Section 1, may be offered for
sale to the recipient; and
(3) the postcard or letter does not disclose or
disclaim that it is not a bill and that it is a
solicitation for that goods, services, or other

merchandise, as defined in Section 1, that may be offered
for sale if the recipient contacts the sender by mail,
telephone, email, website, or any other prescribed means
calls the telephone number ; and .
(4) the postcard or letter does not disclose or
disclaim any and all affiliations or lack thereof.
(b) All disclosures and disclaimers appearing on a
postcard or letter must be conspicuously located at the top of
the postcard or letter, be easily readable in clear and
unambiguous language, and be printed in at least 14-point
bold-face font in a black-outlined box.
(Source: P.A. 95-331, eff. 8-21-07.)