Rep. Deborah L. Graham
Filed: 3/8/2007
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1 | AMENDMENT TO HOUSE BILL 318
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2 | AMENDMENT NO. ______. Amend House Bill 318, AS AMENDED, by | ||||||
3 | replacing everything after the enacting clause with the | ||||||
4 | following:
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5 | "Section 5. The Consumer Fraud and Deceptive Business | ||||||
6 | Practices Act is amended by changing Section 2HH as follows:
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7 | (815 ILCS 505/2HH)
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8 | Sec. 2HH. Billing and collection practices of utility
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9 | electric
service providers. Each person selling generation,
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10 | transmission, distribution, metering, or billing of any | ||||||
11 | utility
electric
service shall display the name, the toll-free | ||||||
12 | telephone number
of such service provider, and a description of | ||||||
13 | the services
provided on all bills submitted to subscribers of | ||||||
14 | such
services. All personal information relating to the
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15 | subscriber of generation, transmission, distribution, | ||||||
16 | metering,
or billing of any utility
electric service shall be |
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1 | maintained by the
service providers solely for the purpose of | ||||||
2 | generating the
bill for such services, and shall not be | ||||||
3 | divulged to any
other persons with the exception of credit | ||||||
4 | bureaus,
collection agencies, and persons licensed to market | ||||||
5 | utility services
electric
service in the State of Illinois, | ||||||
6 | without the written consent
of the subscriber. Credit bureaus | ||||||
7 | that receive personal consumer information from a utility | ||||||
8 | service provider may not use that information to determine | ||||||
9 | credit scores.
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10 | (Source: P.A. 90-561, eff. 12-16-97.)".
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