Bill Sponsors: IL HB2463 | 2023-2024 | 103rd General Assembly

Bill Title: Creates the Deceptive Practices of Limited Services Pregnancy Centers Act. Prohibits a limited services pregnancy center from using or employing any deception, fraud, false pretense, false promise, or misrepresentation, or the concealment, suppression, or omission of any material fact, with the intent that others rely upon the concealment, suppression or omission of such material fact: to interfere with an individual seeking to gain entry or access to a provider of abortion or emergency contraception; to induce an individual to enter or access the limited services pregnancy center; in advertising, soliciting, or otherwise offering pregnancy-related services; or in conducting, providing, or performing pregnancy-related services. Allows the Attorney General to enforce the Act when: it appears to the Attorney General that a limited services pregnancy center has engaged in, is engaging in, or is about to engage in any practice declared to be unlawful by the Act; the Attorney General receives a written complaint of the commission of a practice declared to be unlawful under the Act; or the Attorney General believes it to be in the public interest that an investigation should be made to ascertain whether a limited services pregnancy center has engaged in, is engaging in, or is about to engage in, any practice declared to be unlawful by the Act. Establishes the remedies available under the Act for violation of the Act, including preliminary or permanent injunction and a civil penalty not to exceed $50,000. Allows any party aggrieved by a violation of the Act to bring an action against any limited services pregnancy center that has committed such a violation, in which the court may award actual damages and any other relief the court deems proper. Effective immediately.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 16-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2023-03-29 - Added Chief Co-Sponsor Rep. Gregg Johnson [HB2463 Detail]

Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [HTML]

Sponsors

NameTypeSponsorshipDistrictFinancialEncyclopediaBiography
Representative Terra Costa Howard [D]PrimarySponsored BillsHD-042FollowTheMoneyBallotpediaVoteSmart
Representative Dagmara Avelar [D]CosponsorSponsored BillsHD-085FollowTheMoneyBallotpediaVoteSmart
Representative Kelly Cassidy [D]CosponsorSponsored BillsHD-014FollowTheMoneyBallotpediaVoteSmart
Senator Lakesia Collins [D]CosponsorSponsored BillsSD-005FollowTheMoneyBallotpediaVoteSmart
Representative Gregg Johnson [D]CosponsorSponsored BillsHD-072FollowTheMoneyBallotpediaVoteSmart
Representative Ann Williams [D]CosponsorSponsored BillsHD-011FollowTheMoneyBallotpediaVoteSmart
Representative Anna Moeller [D]CosponsorSponsored BillsHD-043FollowTheMoneyBallotpediaVoteSmart
Representative Margaret Croke [D]CosponsorSponsored BillsHD-012FollowTheMoneyBallotpediaVoteSmart
Representative Maura Hirschauer [D]CosponsorSponsored BillsHD-049FollowTheMoneyBallotpediaVoteSmart
Representative Joyce Mason [D]CosponsorSponsored BillsHD-061FollowTheMoneyBallotpediaVoteSmart
Representative Janet Yang Rohr [D]CosponsorSponsored BillsHD-041FollowTheMoneyBallotpediaVoteSmart
Representative Anne Stava-Murray [D]CosponsorSponsored BillsHD-081FollowTheMoneyBallotpediaVoteSmart
Representative Barbara Hernandez [D]CosponsorSponsored BillsHD-050FollowTheMoneyBallotpediaVoteSmart
Representative Jennifer Gong-Gershowitz [D]CosponsorSponsored BillsHD-017FollowTheMoneyBallotpediaVoteSmart
Representative Will Guzzardi [D]CosponsorSponsored BillsHD-039FollowTheMoneyBallotpediaVoteSmart
Representative Lilian Jimenez [D]CosponsorSponsored BillsHD-004FollowTheMoneyBallotpediaVoteSmart

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