Bill Text: IL HB0341 | 2009-2010 | 96th General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Amends the Check Cashing Act. Provides that, if a casino-based electronic check acceptance service has taken part in a casino-based transaction involving a check that is dishonored, then a casino-based electronic check acceptance service may not recover treble damages from a person who writes a check for use in a casino-based transaction that is dishonored.

Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 2-1)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2009-03-13 - Rule 19(a) / Re-referred to Rules Committee [HB0341 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2009-HB0341-Introduced.html

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96TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2009 and 2010 HB0341 Introduced 1/27/2009, by Rep. Rosemary Mulligan SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
815 ILCS 315/1 from Ch. 121 1/2, par. 1901
815 ILCS 315/3 new
Amends the Check Cashing Act. Provides that, if a casino-based electronic check acceptance service has taken part in a casino-based transaction involving a check that is dishonored, then a casino-based electronic check acceptance service may not recover treble damages from a person who writes a check for use in a casino-based transaction that is dishonored.
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A BILL FOR
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AN ACT concerning business.
Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
represented in the General Assembly:
Section 5. The Check Cashing Act is amended by changing
Section 1 and adding Section 3 as follows:
(815 ILCS 315/1) (from Ch. 121 1/2, par. 1901)
Sec. 1. Definitions. As used in this Act: ,
"Merchant" means a person, firm, association, partnership
or corporation primarily engaged in the business of selling
tangible personal property at retail.
"Casino-based electronic check acceptance service" means
any check-guarantee, check-acceptance, check-co-signing, or
check-risk-management service that is performed by a firm that
is engaged in the financial service industry or in any branch
of the financial service industry, provided that the service is
performed as part of a transaction involving a check that takes
place on a riverboat subject to the Riverboat Gambling Act, or
in a facility associated with the riverboat located within
1,000 feet of the riverboat.
(Source: P.A. 85-997.)
(815 ILCS 315/3 new)
Sec. 3. Casino-based electronic check acceptance services.

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Notwithstanding any law to the contrary, if a casino-based
electronic check acceptance service has taken part in a
casino-based transaction involving a check that is dishonored,
then a casino-based electronic check acceptance service may not
recover treble damages from a person who writes a check for use
in a casino-based transaction that is dishonored.