101ST GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2019 and 2020
SB3340
 
Introduced 2/14/2020, by Sen. Dan McConchie
 
SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
 

 
New Act

     Creates the Telemarketing Disclosure and Privacy Act. Provides that telemarketers may not interfere with the operation of a caller identification device or service. Provides for the Illinois Commerce Commission to impose an administrative penalty not to exceed $1,000 for each violation. Effective immediately.
  


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1    AN ACT concerning regulation.
  
 
2    Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
 
3represented in the General Assembly:
  
 
 
4    Section 1. Short title. This Act may be cited as the 
5Telemarketing Disclosure and Privacy Act.
 
6    Section 5. Definitions. As used in this Act:


7    "Caller identification information" means the name, 
8telephone number, or other identifying data of the person or 
9entity originating a call using a telecommunications service or 
10voice over Internet protocol (VoIP).


11    "Caller identification service" means any service or 
12device designed to provide the user of the service or device 
13with the telephone number or other information regarding the 
14origination of a call made using a telecommunications service 
15or VoIP service. This term includes automatic number 
16identification services.


17    "Telemarketer" means a person who makes or causes to be 
18made a telemarketing call.


19    "Telemarketing call" means an unsolicited telephone call 
20made to:

21        (1)   solicit a sale of a consumer good or service;

22        (2)   solicit an extension of credit for a consumer good 
23    or service; or

 
 
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1        (3)   obtain information that may be used to solicit a 
2    sale of a consumer good or service or to extend credit for 
3    the sale.

 
4    Section 10. Circumvention of caller identification 
5prohibited.

6    (a)   A telemarketer may not:

7        (1)    interfere with or circumvent the capability of a 
8    caller identification service or device to access or 
9    provide to the recipient of the telemarketing call any 
10    information regarding the call that the service or device 
11    is capable of providing;

12        (2)   fail to provide caller identification information 
13    in a manner that is accessible by a caller identification 
14    service or device, if the telemarketer is capable of 
15    providing the information in that manner; or

16        (3)   cause misleading information to be transmitted to a 
17    recipient's caller identification service or device or to 
18    otherwise misrepresent the origin of a telemarketing call.


19    (b)   A telemarketer does not violate this Section if the 
20telemarketer substitutes the name and telephone number of the 
21person on whose behalf the call is made for the telemarketer's 
22name and telephone number.

 
23    Section 15. Enforcement. The Illinois Commerce Commission 
24shall receive and investigate complaints concerning violations 
 
 
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1of this Act and may impose an administrative penalty not to 
2exceed $1,000 for each violation.
 
 
3    Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon 
4becoming law.