Bill Text: IL HB5476 | 2023-2024 | 103rd General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Amends the Consumer Fraud and Deceptive Business Practices Act. Provides that any term or condition in any agreement that unnecessarily burdens a person's rights under the Act shall be null and void.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)
Status: (Introduced) 2024-04-10 - Added Co-Sponsor Rep. Camille Y. Lilly [HB5476 Detail]
Download: Illinois-2023-HB5476-Introduced.html
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1 | AN ACT concerning business.
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2 | Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, | |||||||||||||||||||
3 | represented in the General Assembly:
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4 | Section 5. The Consumer Fraud and Deceptive Business | |||||||||||||||||||
5 | Practices Act is amended by changing Section 2 as follows:
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6 | (815 ILCS 505/2) (from Ch. 121 1/2, par. 262) | |||||||||||||||||||
7 | Sec. 2. | |||||||||||||||||||
8 | (a) Unfair methods of competition and unfair or deceptive | |||||||||||||||||||
9 | acts or practices, including but not limited to the use or | |||||||||||||||||||
10 | employment of any deception fraud, false pretense, false | |||||||||||||||||||
11 | promise, misrepresentation or the concealment, suppression or | |||||||||||||||||||
12 | omission of any material fact, with intent that others rely | |||||||||||||||||||
13 | upon the concealment, suppression or omission of such material | |||||||||||||||||||
14 | fact, or the use or employment of any practice described in | |||||||||||||||||||
15 | Section 2 of the "Uniform Deceptive Trade Practices Act", | |||||||||||||||||||
16 | approved August 5, 1965, in the conduct of any trade or | |||||||||||||||||||
17 | commerce are hereby declared unlawful whether any person has | |||||||||||||||||||
18 | in fact been misled, deceived or damaged thereby. In | |||||||||||||||||||
19 | construing this section consideration shall be given to the | |||||||||||||||||||
20 | interpretations of the Federal Trade Commission and the | |||||||||||||||||||
21 | federal courts relating to Section 5 (a) of the Federal Trade | |||||||||||||||||||
22 | Commission Act. | |||||||||||||||||||
23 | (b) Any term or condition in any agreement that |
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