Bill Text: IL HB5576 | 2011-2012 | 97th General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Amends the Consumer Fraud and Deceptive Business Practices Act. Provides that sellers of propane who sell or deliver propane at different prices to different customers with respect to propane sales made during the same calendar week commit an unlawful practice.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Failed) 2013-01-08 - Session Sine Die [HB5576 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2011-HB5576-Introduced.html

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97TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2011 and 2012 HB5576 Introduced , by Rep. Roger L. Eddy SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
815 ILCS 505/2NNN new
Amends the Consumer Fraud and Deceptive Business Practices Act. Provides that sellers of propane who sell or deliver propane at different prices to different customers with respect to propane sales made during the same calendar week commit an unlawful practice.
LRB097 17892 JLS 63115 b
A BILL FOR
HB5576 LRB097 17892 JLS 63115 b
AN ACT concerning propane sellers.
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 2NNN as follows:
(815 ILCS 505/2NNN new)
Sec. 2NNN. Sales practices of propane sellers.
(a) As used in this Section:
"Calendar week" means a period of 7 consecutive days
beginning with Sunday and ending with Saturday.
"Propane" means a hydrocarbon whose chemical
composition is predominately C3H8, whether recovered from
natural gas or crude oil, and includes liquified petroleum
gases and mixtures thereof.
"Propane seller" means a person engaged primarily in
the sale of odorized propane to the ultimate consumer by
delivery to and filling of the consumer's propane storage
device at the consumer's place of consumption.
(b) A propane seller may not sell and deliver propane at
different prices to different consumers with respect to sales
made during the same calendar week.
(c) A violation of this Section constitutes an unlawful
practice within the meaning of this Act.