Bill Text: IL HB2450 | 2015-2016 | 99th General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Amends the Consumer Fraud and Deceptive Business Practices Act. Provides that it is an unlawful practice for a manufacturer or distributor of prescription contact lenses to prevent a retailer from selling or advertising contact lenses below any specified price.

Sponsorship: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-1)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2015-03-27 - Rule 19(a) / Re-referred to Rules Committee [HB2450 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2015-HB2450-Introduced.html

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99TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2015 and 2016 HB2450 Introduced , by Rep. Daniel J. Burke SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
815 ILCS 505/2TTT new
Amends the Consumer Fraud and Deceptive Business Practices Act. Provides that it is an unlawful practice for a manufacturer or distributor of prescription contact lenses to prevent a retailer from selling or advertising contact lenses below any specified price.
LRB099 05450 JLS 25485 b
FISCAL NOTE ACT MAY APPLY
A BILL FOR
HB2450 LRB099 05450 JLS 25485 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 adding Section 2TTT as follows:
(815 ILCS 505/2TTT new)
Sec. 2TTT. Contact lenses; unilateral pricing policies
prohibited. It is an unlawful practice under this Act for a
manufacturer or distributor of prescription contact lenses to:
(1) prevent, by any means, including through a
unilateral policy or agreement, any retailer from selling
or advertising contact lenses to consumers below any
specified price or to otherwise limit the ability of any
retailer to determine prices at which contact lenses are
offered or advertised to consumers; or
(2) restrict options available to contact lens
consumers by discriminating in the distribution of contact
lenses based upon the channel of trade or based upon
whether the retailer is, or is associated with, a person or
entity, authorized by law to prescribe contact lenses.