Bill Text: IL HB5476 | 2023-2024 | 103rd General Assembly | Introduced

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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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103RD GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2023 and 2024 HB5476 Introduced , by Rep. Marcus C. Evans, Jr. SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
815 ILCS 505/2 from Ch. 121 1/2, par. 262
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.
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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 changing Section 2 as follows:
(815 ILCS 505/2) (from Ch. 121 1/2, par. 262)
Sec. 2.
(a) Unfair methods of competition and unfair or deceptive
acts or practices, including but not limited to the use or
employment of any deception fraud, false pretense, false
promise, misrepresentation or the concealment, suppression or
omission of any material fact, with intent that others rely
upon the concealment, suppression or omission of such material
fact, or the use or employment of any practice described in
Section 2 of the "Uniform Deceptive Trade Practices Act",
approved August 5, 1965, in the conduct of any trade or
commerce are hereby declared unlawful whether any person has
in fact been misled, deceived or damaged thereby. In
construing this section consideration shall be given to the
interpretations of the Federal Trade Commission and the
federal courts relating to Section 5 (a) of the Federal Trade
Commission Act.
(b) Any term or condition in any agreement that

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