Bill Text: IL HB5404 | 2013-2014 | 98th General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Amends the Employee Credit Privacy Act. Requires a consumer reporting agency that prepares an investigative consumer report, as defined in the Fair Credit Reporting Act, to provide upon request and without fee a copy to the consumer. Provides that the disclosure is intended to supplement the Fair Credit Reporting Act and provide greater protection to consumers.

Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Republican 1)

Status: (Failed) 2014-12-03 - Session Sine Die [HB5404 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2013-HB5404-Introduced.html

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98TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2013 and 2014 HB5404 Introduced , by Rep. Robert W. Pritchard SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
820 ILCS 70/30
Amends the Employee Credit Privacy Act. Requires a consumer reporting agency that prepares an investigative consumer report, as defined in the Fair Credit Reporting Act, to provide upon request and without fee a copy to the consumer. Provides that the disclosure is intended to supplement the Fair Credit Reporting Act and provide greater protection to consumers.
LRB098 17198 JLS 52287 b
A BILL FOR
HB5404 LRB098 17198 JLS 52287 b
AN ACT concerning employment.
Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
represented in the General Assembly:
Section 5. The Employee Credit Privacy Act is amended by
changing Section 30 as follows:
(820 ILCS 70/30)
Sec. 30. Fair Credit Reporting Act.
(a) Nothing in this Act shall prohibit employers from
conducting a thorough background investigation, which may
include obtaining a report without information on credit
history or an investigative report without information on
credit history, or both, as permitted under the Fair Credit
Reporting Act. This information shall be used for employment
purposes only.
(b) A consumer reporting agency that prepares an
investigative consumer report, as defined in the Fair Credit
Reporting Act, shall, upon request and without charge, provide
to the consumer a copy of the investigative consumer report.
The requirements of this subsection are intended to supplement
the provisions of the Fair Credit Reporting Act and provide
additional protection to consumers.
(Source: P.A. 96-1426, eff. 1-1-11.)