Bill Text: IL HB4785 | 2009-2010 | 96th General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Amends the Consumer Fraud and Deceptive Business Practices Act. Provides that on each monthly bill for wireless telecommunications service sent to a consumer by a wireless telecommunications carrier, the carrier must state (i) the date on which the consumer's contract for wireless telecommunications service provided by the carrier ends and (ii) the amount of any termination fee charged to the consumer by the carrier if the consumer terminates wireless telecommunications service before the date on which the consumer's contract ends. Makes a carrier's violation of this provision an unlawful practice under the Act. Effective immediately.

Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Republican 1)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2010-03-15 - Rule 19(a) / Re-referred to Rules Committee [HB4785 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2009-HB4785-Introduced.html

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96TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2009 and 2010 HB4785 Introduced 1/12/2010, by Rep. Sandy Cole SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
815 ILCS 505/2III new
Amends the Consumer Fraud and Deceptive Business Practices Act. Provides that on each monthly bill for wireless telecommunications service sent to a consumer by a wireless telecommunications carrier, the carrier must state (i) the date on which the consumer's contract for wireless telecommunications service provided by the carrier ends and (ii) the amount of any termination fee charged to the consumer by the carrier if the consumer terminates wireless telecommunications service before the date on which the consumer's contract ends. Makes a carrier's violation of this provision an unlawful practice under the Act. Effective immediately.
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A BILL FOR
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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 2III as follows:
(815 ILCS 505/2III new)
Sec. 2III. Wireless telecommunications; monthly bill. On
each monthly bill for wireless telecommunications service sent
to a consumer by a wireless telecommunications carrier, the
carrier must state the following:
(1) The date on which the consumer's contract for
wireless telecommunications service provided by the
carrier ends.
(2) The amount of any termination fee charged to the
consumer by the carrier if the consumer terminates wireless
telecommunications service before the date on which the
consumer's contract ends.
A carrier's violation of this Section is an unlawful
practice within the meaning of this Act.
Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon
becoming law.