Bill Text: IL SB1425 | 2013-2014 | 98th General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Amends the Consumer Fraud and Deceptive Business Practices Act. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning unlawful practices.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Failed) 2015-01-13 - Session Sine Die [SB1425 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2013-SB1425-Introduced.html

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98TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2013 and 2014 SB1425 Introduced 2/6/2013, by Sen. Daniel Biss SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
815 ILCS 505/2 from Ch. 121 1/2, par. 262
Amends the Consumer Fraud and Deceptive Business Practices Act. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning unlawful practices.
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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. Unfair methods of competition and 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.
(Source: P.A. 78-904.)