Bill Text: IL HB1109 | 2021-2022 | 102nd General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Amends the Criminal Code of 2012. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning deceptive collection practices.

Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2021-04-23 - Rule 19(a) / Re-referred to Rules Committee [HB1109 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2021-HB1109-Introduced.html

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102ND GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2021 and 2022 HB1109 Introduced , by Rep. Emanuel Chris Welch SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
720 ILCS 5/17-5 from Ch. 38, par. 17-5
Amends the Criminal Code of 2012. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning deceptive collection practices.
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A BILL FOR
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AN ACT concerning criminal law.
Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
represented in the General Assembly:
Section 5. The Criminal Code of 2012 is amended by
changing Section 17-5 as follows:
(720 ILCS 5/17-5) (from Ch. 38, par. 17-5)
Sec. 17-5. Deceptive collection practices. A collection
agency as defined in the the Collection Agency Act or any
employee of such collection agency commits a deceptive
collection practice when, with the intent to collect a debt
owed to an individual or a corporation or other entity, he,
she, or it does any of the following:
(a) Represents falsely that he or she is an attorney,
a policeman, a sheriff or deputy sheriff, a bailiff, a
county clerk or employee of a county clerk's office, or
any other person who by statute is authorized to enforce
the law or any order of a court.
(b) While attempting to collect an alleged debt,
misrepresents to the alleged debtor or to his or her
immediate family the corporate, partnership or proprietary
name or other trade or business name under which the debt
collector is engaging in debt collections and which he,
she, or it is legally authorized to use.

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(c) While attempting to collect an alleged debt, adds
to the debt any service charge, interest or penalty which
he, she, or it is not entitled by law to add.
(d) Threatens to ruin, destroy, or otherwise adversely
affect an alleged debtor's credit rating unless, at the
same time, a disclosure is made in accordance with federal
law that the alleged debtor has a right to inspect his or
her credit rating.
(e) Accepts from an alleged debtor a payment which he,
she, or it knows is not owed.
Sentence. The commission of a deceptive collection
practice is a Business Offense punishable by a fine not to
exceed $3,000.
(Source: P.A. 96-1551, eff. 7-1-11.)