Bill Text: IL HB2472 | 2019-2020 | 101st General Assembly | Enrolled
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Bill Title: Reinserts the bill as introduced and expands the scope to apply to services as well as products that cause or contribute to injuries. Effective immediately.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 7-0)
Status: (Passed) 2019-06-21 - Public Act . . . . . . . . . 101-0025 [HB2472 Detail]
Download: Illinois-2019-HB2472-Enrolled.html
Bill Title: Reinserts the bill as introduced and expands the scope to apply to services as well as products that cause or contribute to injuries. Effective immediately.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 7-0)
Status: (Passed) 2019-06-21 - Public Act . . . . . . . . . 101-0025 [HB2472 Detail]
Download: Illinois-2019-HB2472-Enrolled.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,
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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 10b as follows:
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6 | (815 ILCS 505/10b) (from Ch. 121 1/2, par. 270b)
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7 | (Text of Section WITHOUT the changes made by P.A. 89-7, | ||||||
8 | which has been held
unconstitutional)
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9 | Sec. 10b. Nothing in this Act shall apply to any of the | ||||||
10 | following:
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11 | (1) Actions or transactions specifically authorized by | ||||||
12 | laws administered
by any regulatory body or officer acting | ||||||
13 | under statutory authority of this
State or the United States ; | ||||||
14 | however, notwithstanding any action or approval by a regulatory | ||||||
15 | body or officer acting under statutory authority of this State | ||||||
16 | or the United States, the manufacture, distribution, or sale of | ||||||
17 | a product or service that causes or contributes to cause bodily | ||||||
18 | injury, death, or property damage is not an action or | ||||||
19 | transaction "specifically authorized" within the meaning of | ||||||
20 | this item (1) .
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21 | (2) The provisions of "An act to protect trademark owners, | ||||||
22 | distributors,
and the public against injurious and uneconomic | ||||||
23 | practices in the
distribution of articles of standard quality |
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1 | under a trademark, brand or
name," approved July 8, 1935, as | ||||||
2 | amended.
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3 | (3) Acts done by the publisher, owner, agent, or employee | ||||||
4 | of a
newspaper, periodical or radio or television station in | ||||||
5 | the publication or
dissemination of an advertisement, when the | ||||||
6 | owner, agent or employee did
not have knowledge of the false, | ||||||
7 | misleading or deceptive character of the
advertisement, did not | ||||||
8 | prepare the advertisement, or did not have a direct
financial | ||||||
9 | interest in the sale or distribution of the advertised product | ||||||
10 | or
service.
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11 | (4) The communication of any false, misleading or deceptive | ||||||
12 | information,
provided by the seller of real estate located in | ||||||
13 | Illinois, by a real estate
salesman or broker licensed under | ||||||
14 | "The Real Estate Brokers License Act",
unless the salesman or | ||||||
15 | broker knows of the false, misleading or deceptive
character of | ||||||
16 | such information. This provision shall be effective as to any
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17 | communication, whenever occurring.
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18 | (5) (Blank).
This item (5)
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19 | (6) The communication of any false, misleading, or | ||||||
20 | deceptive information by
an insurance producer, registered | ||||||
21 | firm, or limited insurance representative,
as those terms are | ||||||
22 | defined in the Illinois Insurance Code, or by an insurance
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23 | agency or brokerage house concerning the sale, placement, | ||||||
24 | procurement, renewal,
binding, cancellation of, or terms of any | ||||||
25 | type of insurance or any policy of
insurance unless the | ||||||
26 | insurance producer has actual knowledge of
the false, |
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1 | misleading, or deceptive character of the information. This
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2 | provision shall be effective as to any communications, whenever | ||||||
3 | occurring.
This item (6) applies to all causes of action that | ||||||
4 | accrue on or after the
effective date of this amendatory Act of | ||||||
5 | 1995.
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6 | (Source: P.A. 84-894; 89-152, eff. 1-1-96; revised 1-22-98 .)
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7 | Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon | ||||||
8 | becoming law.
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