Bill Amendment: IL SB1599 | 2019-2020 | 101st General Assembly
NOTE: For additional amemendments please see the Bill Drafting List
Bill Title: CONSUMER FRAUD-CRIMINAL RECORD
Status: 2019-08-20 - Public Act . . . . . . . . . 101-0431 [SB1599 Detail]
Download: Illinois-2019-SB1599-Senate_Amendment_001.html
Bill Title: CONSUMER FRAUD-CRIMINAL RECORD
Status: 2019-08-20 - Public Act . . . . . . . . . 101-0431 [SB1599 Detail]
Download: Illinois-2019-SB1599-Senate_Amendment_001.html
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1 | AMENDMENT TO SENATE BILL 1599
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2 | AMENDMENT NO. ______. Amend Senate Bill 1599 by replacing | ||||||
3 | everything after the enacting clause with the following:
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4 | "Section 5. The Consumer Fraud and Deceptive Business | ||||||
5 | Practices Act is amended by changing Sections 2QQQ and 11a as | ||||||
6 | follows:
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7 | (815 ILCS 505/2QQQ) | ||||||
8 | Sec. 2QQQ. Criminal record information. | ||||||
9 | (a) It is an unlawful practice for any person engaged in | ||||||
10 | publishing or otherwise disseminating criminal record | ||||||
11 | information through a print or electronic medium to solicit or | ||||||
12 | accept the payment of a fee or other consideration to remove, | ||||||
13 | correct, or modify said criminal record information. | ||||||
14 | (b) For the purposes of this Section, "criminal record | ||||||
15 | information" includes any and all of the following: | ||||||
16 | (1) descriptions or notations of any arrests, any |
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1 | formal criminal charges, and the disposition of those | ||||||
2 | criminal charges, including, but not limited to, any | ||||||
3 | information made available under Section 4a of the State | ||||||
4 | Records Act or Section 3b of the Local Records Act; | ||||||
5 | (2) photographs of the person taken pursuant to an | ||||||
6 | arrest or other involvement in the criminal justice system; | ||||||
7 | or | ||||||
8 | (3) personal identifying information, including a | ||||||
9 | person's name, address, date of birth, photograph, and | ||||||
10 | social security number or other government-issued | ||||||
11 | identification number.
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12 | (c) A person or entity that publishes or otherwise | ||||||
13 | disseminates for profit a person's criminal record information | ||||||
14 | on a publicly available Internet website or in any other | ||||||
15 | publication or criminal history report that charges a fee for | ||||||
16 | removal or correction of the information must correct any | ||||||
17 | errors in the individual's criminal history information within | ||||||
18 | 5 business days after notification of an error. Failure to | ||||||
19 | correct an error in the individual's criminal record | ||||||
20 | information constitutes an unlawful practice within the | ||||||
21 | meaning of this Act. | ||||||
22 | (d) A person whose criminal record information is published | ||||||
23 | for profit on a publicly available Internet website or in any | ||||||
24 | other publication that charges a fee for removal or correction | ||||||
25 | of the information may demand the publisher to correct the | ||||||
26 | information if the subject of the information, or his or her |
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1 | representative, sends a letter, via certified mail, to the | ||||||
2 | publishing entity demanding the information be corrected and | ||||||
3 | providing documentation of the correct information. | ||||||
4 | (e) Failure by a for-profit publishing entity that | ||||||
5 | publishes on a publicly available Internet website or in any | ||||||
6 | other publication or criminal history report that charges a fee | ||||||
7 | for removal or correction of the information to correct the | ||||||
8 | person's published criminal record information within 5 | ||||||
9 | business days after receipt of the notice, demand for | ||||||
10 | correction, and the provision of correct information, | ||||||
11 | constitutes an unlawful and deceptive practice within the | ||||||
12 | meaning of this Act. In addition to any other remedy available | ||||||
13 | under this Act, a person who has been injured by a violation of | ||||||
14 | this Section is entitled to the damages of $100 per day, plus | ||||||
15 | attorney's fees, for the publisher's failure to correct the | ||||||
16 | criminal record information. | ||||||
17 | (f) This Section does not apply to a play, book, magazine, | ||||||
18 | newspaper, musical, composition, visual work, work of art, | ||||||
19 | audiovisual work, radio, motion picture, or television | ||||||
20 | program, or a dramatic, literary, or musical work. | ||||||
21 | (g) This Section does not apply to a news medium or | ||||||
22 | reporter as defined in Section 8-902 of the Code of Civil | ||||||
23 | Procedure. | ||||||
24 | (h) This Section does not apply to the Illinois State | ||||||
25 | Police. | ||||||
26 | (i) This Section does not apply to a consumer reporting |
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1 | agency as defined under 15 U.S.C. 1681a(f). | ||||||
2 | (j) Nothing in this Section shall be construed to impose | ||||||
3 | liability on an interactive computer service, as defined in 47 | ||||||
4 | U.S.C. 230(f)(2), for content provided by another person. | ||||||
5 | (Source: P.A. 100-927, eff. 1-1-19 .)
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6 | (815 ILCS 505/11a) (from Ch. 121 1/2, par. 271a)
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7 | Sec. 11a. Construction of Act.
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8 | (a) This Act shall be liberally construed to effect the | ||||||
9 | purposes thereof.
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10 | (b) Nothing in this Act shall be construed to restrict or | ||||||
11 | limit the ability of an aggrieved party to proceed through | ||||||
12 | established federal or State remedies or other alternative | ||||||
13 | methods of redress for similar violations. | ||||||
14 | (Source: P.A. 78-904.)".
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