Bill Text: IL HB5503 | 2019-2020 | 101st General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Amends the Consumer Fraud and Deceptive Business Practices Act. Provides that a person may not require a debtor to establish an automatic payment from a bank account, credit card, debit card, or other form of automatic payment as a condition of entering into a payment plan with respect to a medical bill.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-06-23 - Rule 19(b) / Re-referred to Rules Committee [HB5503 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2019-HB5503-Introduced.html

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101ST GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2019 and 2020 HB5503 Introduced , by Rep. Jaime M. Andrade, Jr. SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
815 ILCS 505/2WWW new
Amends the Consumer Fraud and Deceptive Business Practices Act. Provides that a person may not require a debtor to establish an automatic payment from a bank account, credit card, debit card, or other form of automatic payment as a condition of entering into a payment plan with respect to a medical bill.
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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 2WWW as follows:
(815 ILCS 505/2WWW new)
Sec. 2WWW. Medical bills; no automatic payments.
(a) As used in this Section, "automatic payment plan" means
an arrangement under which a debtor authorizes a periodic,
recurring payment from a checking account, credit card, debit
card, or other form of payment without an additional
authorization by the debtor.
(b) No person may require, as a condition of entering into
a payment plan for the payment of debt incurred for the
provision of medical services or products, that the debtor
enter into or establish an automatic payment plan.
(c) A person who violates this Section commits an unlawful
practice within the meaning of this Act.