Bill Text: IL SB2833 | 2009-2010 | 96th General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Amends the Consumer Fraud and Deceptive Business Practices Act. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning unlawful practices.
Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Republican 2)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2010-06-27 - Pursuant to Senate Rule 3-9(b) / Referred to Assignments [SB2833 Detail]
Download: Illinois-2009-SB2833-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)
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| 7 | Sec. 2.
Unfair methods of competition and
and unfair or | |||||||||||||||||||
| 8 | deceptive acts or practices,
including but not limited to the | |||||||||||||||||||
| 9 | use or employment of any deception fraud,
false pretense, false | |||||||||||||||||||
| 10 | promise, misrepresentation or the concealment,
suppression or | |||||||||||||||||||
| 11 | omission of any material fact, with intent that others rely
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| 12 | upon the concealment, suppression or omission of such material | |||||||||||||||||||
| 13 | fact, or the
use or employment of any practice described in | |||||||||||||||||||
| 14 | Section 2 of the "Uniform
Deceptive Trade Practices Act", | |||||||||||||||||||
| 15 | approved August 5, 1965, in the conduct of
any trade or | |||||||||||||||||||
| 16 | commerce are hereby declared unlawful whether any person has
in | |||||||||||||||||||
| 17 | fact been misled, deceived or damaged thereby. In construing | |||||||||||||||||||
| 18 | this
section consideration shall be given to the | |||||||||||||||||||
| 19 | interpretations of the Federal
Trade Commission and the federal | |||||||||||||||||||
| 20 | courts relating to Section 5 (a) of the
Federal Trade | |||||||||||||||||||
| 21 | Commission Act. | |||||||||||||||||||
| 22 | (Source: P.A. 78-904.)
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