Bill Text: IL HB3021 | 2025-2026 | 104th General Assembly | Introduced


Bill Title: Amends the Consumer Fraud and Deceptive Business Practices Act. Provides that it is an unlawful practice for any person to engage in a commercial transaction or trade practice with a consumer in which: (1) the consumer is communicating or otherwise interacting with a chatbot, artificial intelligence agent, avatar, or other computer technology that engages in a textual or aural conversation; (2) the communication may mislead or deceive a reasonable consumer to believe that the consumer is communicating with a human representative; and (3) the consumer is not notified in a clear and conspicuous manner that the consumer is communicating with an artificial intelligence system and not a human representative. Effective January 1, 2026.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2025-02-06 - Referred to Rules Committee [HB3021 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2025-HB3021-Introduced.html

104TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2025 and 2026
HB3021

Introduced , by Rep. Abdelnasser Rashid

SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
815 ILCS 505/2HHHH new

Amends the Consumer Fraud and Deceptive Business Practices Act. Provides that it is an unlawful practice for any person to engage in a commercial transaction or trade practice with a consumer in which: (1) the consumer is communicating or otherwise interacting with a chatbot, artificial intelligence agent, avatar, or other computer technology that engages in a textual or aural conversation; (2) the communication may mislead or deceive a reasonable consumer to believe that the consumer is communicating with a human representative; and (3) the consumer is not notified in a clear and conspicuous manner that the consumer is communicating with an artificial intelligence system and not a human representative. Effective January 1, 2026.
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A BILL FOR

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1 AN ACT concerning business.
2 Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
3represented in the General Assembly:
4 Section 5. The Consumer Fraud and Deceptive Business
5Practices Act is amended by adding Section 2HHHH as follows:
6 (815 ILCS 505/2HHHH new)
7 Sec. 2HHHH. Commercial transactions; artificial
8intelligence disclosure. It is an unlawful practice within the
9meaning of this Act, whether or not a consumer is in fact
10misled, deceived, or damaged, for any person to engage in a
11commercial transaction or trade practice with a consumer in
12which:
13 (1) the consumer is communicating or otherwise
14 interacting with a chatbot, artificial intelligence agent,
15 avatar, or other computer technology that engages in a
16 textual or aural conversation;
17 (2) the communication may mislead or deceive a
18 reasonable consumer to believe that the consumer is
19 communicating with a human representative; and
20 (3) the consumer is not notified in a clear and
21 conspicuous manner that the consumer is communicating with
22 an artificial intelligence system and not a human
23 representative.

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