Bill Text: IL HB4698 | 2013-2014 | 98th General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Amends the Uniform Deceptive Trade Practices Act. Includes within the scope of the Act knowingly making a false or misleading statement in a privacy policy published on the Internet or otherwise distributed or published regarding the use of personal information submitted by members of the public.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Failed) 2014-12-03 - Session Sine Die [HB4698 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2013-HB4698-Introduced.html

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98TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2013 and 2014 HB4698 Introduced , by Rep. La Shawn K. Ford SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
815 ILCS 510/2 from Ch. 121 1/2, par. 312
Amends the Uniform Deceptive Trade Practices Act. Includes within the scope of the Act knowingly making a false or misleading statement in a privacy policy published on the Internet or otherwise distributed or published regarding the use of personal information submitted by members of the public.
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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 Uniform Deceptive Trade Practices Act is
amended by changing Section 2 as follows:
(815 ILCS 510/2) (from Ch. 121 1/2, par. 312)
Sec. 2. Deceptive trade practices.
(a) A person engages in a deceptive trade practice when, in
the course of his or her business, vocation, or occupation, the
person:
(1) passes off goods or services as those of another;
(2) causes likelihood of confusion or of
misunderstanding as to the source, sponsorship, approval,
or certification of goods or services;
(3) causes likelihood of confusion or of
misunderstanding as to affiliation, connection, or
association with or certification by another;
(4) uses deceptive representations or designations of
geographic origin in connection with goods or services;
(5) represents that goods or services have
sponsorship, approval, characteristics, ingredients, uses,
benefits, or quantities that they do not have or that a
person has a sponsorship, approval, status, affiliation,

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or connection that he or she does not have;
(6) represents that goods are original or new if they
are deteriorated, altered, reconditioned, reclaimed, used,
or secondhand;
(7) represents that goods or services are of a
particular standard, quality, or grade or that goods are a
particular style or model, if they are of another;
(8) disparages the goods, services, or business of
another by false or misleading representation of fact;
(9) advertises goods or services with intent not to
sell them as advertised;
(10) advertises goods or services with intent not to
supply reasonably expectable public demand, unless the
advertisement discloses a limitation of quantity;
(11) makes false or misleading statements of fact
concerning the reasons for, existence of, or amounts of
price reductions;
(12) engages in any other conduct which similarly
creates a likelihood of confusion or misunderstanding; .
(13) knowingly makes a false or misleading statement in
a disclosure of practices regarding uses of information
collected in connection with a privacy policy, published on
the Internet or otherwise distributed or published,
regarding the use of personal information submitted by
members of the public.
(b) In order to prevail in an action under this Act, a

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plaintiff need not prove competition between the parties or
actual confusion or misunderstanding.
(c) This Section does not affect unfair trade practices
otherwise actionable at common law or under other statutes of
this State.
(Source: P.A. 92-16, eff. 6-28-01)