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
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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, | |||||||||||||||||||
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 adding Section 2HHHH as follows:
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6 | (815 ILCS 505/2HHHH new) | |||||||||||||||||||
7 | Sec. 2HHHH. Commercial transactions; artificial | |||||||||||||||||||
8 | intelligence disclosure. It is an unlawful practice within the | |||||||||||||||||||
9 | meaning of this Act, whether or not a consumer is in fact | |||||||||||||||||||
10 | misled, deceived, or damaged, for any person to engage in a | |||||||||||||||||||
11 | commercial transaction or trade practice with a consumer in | |||||||||||||||||||
12 | which: | |||||||||||||||||||
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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