Bill Text: IL HB4275 | 2017-2018 | 100th General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Amends the Physical Fitness Services Act. Provides that no contract for basic physical fitness services shall require payment of a total amount in excess of $6,500 (rather than $2500) per year, with certain exceptions; and that no contract for family or couple memberships for basic physical fitness services shall require payment in excess of $6,500 (rather than $2,500) per year per person covered under the membership. In a provision permitting a person to renew a contract for physical fitness services for consecutive periods of not more than one year each, removes the requirement that each renewal be for a reasonable consideration not less than 10% of the cash price of the original membership. Effective June 1, 2018.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Passed) 2018-08-01 - Public Act . . . . . . . . . 100-0658 [HB4275 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2017-HB4275-Introduced.html

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100TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2017 and 2018 HB4275 Introduced , by Rep. Jaime M. Andrade, Jr. SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
815 ILCS 645/8 from Ch. 29, par. 58
Amends the Physical Fitness Services Act. Provides that no contract for basic physical fitness services shall require payment of a total amount in excess of $6,500 (rather than $2500) per year, with certain exceptions; and that no contract for family or couple memberships for basic physical fitness services shall require payment in excess of $6,500 (rather than $2,500) per year per person covered under the membership. In a provision permitting a person to renew a contract for physical fitness services for consecutive periods of not more than one year each, removes the requirement that each renewal be for a reasonable consideration not less than 10% of the cash price of the original membership. Effective June 1, 2018.
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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 Physical Fitness Services Act is amended by
changing Section 8 as follows:
(815 ILCS 645/8) (from Ch. 29, par. 58)
Sec. 8. Prohibited contract provisions.
(a) No contract for basic physical fitness services shall
require payment of a total amount in excess of $6,500 $2500 per
year, and every such contract must so provide in writing;
except that this limit shall not apply to any contract for: (1)
family or couple memberships, or (2) group memberships, where
the purchaser is a corporation or other business entity or any
social, fraternal or charitable organization not created for
the purpose of encouraging this contractual arrangement.
(b) No contract for family or couple memberships for basic
physical fitness services shall require payment in excess of
$6,500 $2,500 per year per person covered under the membership.
(c) No contract for physical fitness services shall require
payments or financing over a period in excess of 3 years from
the date the contract is entered into, nor shall the term of
any such contract be measured by the life of the customer. The
initial term of services to be rendered under the contract may

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not extend over a period of more than 2 years from the date the
parties enter into the contract; provided that the customer may
be given an option to renew the contract for consecutive
periods of not more than one year each for a reasonable
consideration not less than 10% of the cash price of the
original membership.
(d) No contract for physical fitness services shall require
or entail the execution of any note by the customer which, when
separately negotiated, will cut off as to third parties any
right of action or defense which the customer may have against
the physical fitness center. No right of action or defense
arising out of a contract for physical fitness services which
the customer has against the center shall be cut off by
assignment of the contract whether or not the assignee acquires
the contract in good faith and for value. Such an assignee is
not a holder in due course.
(Source: P.A. 94-663, eff. 1-1-06; 94-687, eff. 11-3-05.)
Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect June 1,
2018.