Bill Text: IL HB2171 | 2023-2024 | 103rd General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Amends the Consumer Fraud and Deceptive Business Practices Act. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning definitions.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced) 2023-02-07 - Referred to Rules Committee [HB2171 Detail]
Download: Illinois-2023-HB2171-Introduced.html
| ||||||||||||||||||||
| ||||||||||||||||||||
| ||||||||||||||||||||
| ||||||||||||||||||||
| ||||||||||||||||||||
| 1 | AN ACT concerning business.
| |||||||||||||||||||
| 2 | Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, | |||||||||||||||||||
| 3 | represented in the General Assembly:
| |||||||||||||||||||
| 4 | Section 5. The Consumer Fraud and Deceptive Business | |||||||||||||||||||
| 5 | Practices Act is amended by changing Section 1 as follows:
| |||||||||||||||||||
| 6 | (815 ILCS 505/1) (from Ch. 121 1/2, par. 261)
| |||||||||||||||||||
| 7 | Sec. 1. (a) The
The term "advertisement" includes the | |||||||||||||||||||
| 8 | attempt by publication,
dissemination, solicitation or | |||||||||||||||||||
| 9 | circulation to induce directly or indirectly
any person to | |||||||||||||||||||
| 10 | enter into any obligation or acquire any title or interest in
| |||||||||||||||||||
| 11 | any merchandise and includes every work device to disguise any | |||||||||||||||||||
| 12 | form of
business solicitation by using such terms as | |||||||||||||||||||
| 13 | "renewal", "invoice", "bill",
"statement", or "reminder", to | |||||||||||||||||||
| 14 | create an impression of existing obligation
when there is | |||||||||||||||||||
| 15 | none, or other language to mislead any person in relation to
| |||||||||||||||||||
| 16 | any sought after commercial transaction. | |||||||||||||||||||
| 17 | (b) The term "merchandise" includes any objects, wares, | |||||||||||||||||||
| 18 | goods,
commodities, intangibles, real estate situated outside | |||||||||||||||||||
| 19 | the State of
Illinois, or services.
| |||||||||||||||||||
| 20 | (c) The term "person" includes any natural person or his | |||||||||||||||||||
| 21 | legal
representative, partnership, corporation (domestic and | |||||||||||||||||||
| 22 | foreign), company,
trust, business entity or association, and | |||||||||||||||||||
| 23 | any agent, employee, salesman,
partner, officer, director, | |||||||||||||||||||
| |||||||
| |||||||
| 1 | member, stockholder, associate, trustee or
cestui que trust | ||||||
| 2 | thereof.
| ||||||
| 3 | (d) The term "sale" includes any sale, offer for sale, or | ||||||
| 4 | attempt to
sell any merchandise for cash or on credit.
| ||||||
| 5 | (e) The term "consumer" means any person who purchases or | ||||||
| 6 | contracts for
the purchase of merchandise not for resale in | ||||||
| 7 | the ordinary course of his
trade or business but for his use or | ||||||
| 8 | that of a member of his household.
| ||||||
| 9 | (f) The terms "trade" and "commerce" mean the advertising, | ||||||
| 10 | offering for
sale, sale, or distribution of any services and | ||||||
| 11 | any property, tangible or
intangible, real, personal or mixed, | ||||||
| 12 | and any other article, commodity, or
thing of value wherever | ||||||
| 13 | situated, and shall include any trade or commerce
directly or | ||||||
| 14 | indirectly affecting the people of this State.
| ||||||
| 15 | (g) The term "pyramid sales scheme" includes any plan or | ||||||
| 16 | operation whereby
a person in exchange for money or other | ||||||
| 17 | thing of value acquires the opportunity
to receive a benefit | ||||||
| 18 | or thing of value, which is primarily based upon the
| ||||||
| 19 | inducement of additional persons, by himself or others, | ||||||
| 20 | regardless of number,
to participate in the same plan or | ||||||
| 21 | operation
and is not primarily contingent on the volume or | ||||||
| 22 | quantity of goods, services,
or other property sold or | ||||||
| 23 | distributed or to be sold or distributed to persons
for | ||||||
| 24 | purposes of resale to consumers. For purposes of this | ||||||
| 25 | subsection, "money
or other thing of value"
shall not include | ||||||
| 26 | payments made for sales demonstration equipment and materials
| ||||||
| |||||||
| |||||||
| 1 | furnished on a nonprofit basis for use in making sales and not
| ||||||
| 2 | for resale.
| ||||||
| 3 | (Source: P.A. 95-331, eff. 8-21-07.)
| ||||||
