94TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2005 and 2006
SB1518

 

Introduced 2/23/2005, by Sen. Jacqueline Y. Collins

 

SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
 
815 ILCS 505/2VV new

    Amends the Consumer Fraud and Deceptive Business Practices Act. Makes it is an unlawful practice within the meaning of the Act for a financial institution to record the driver's license number, social security number, or account balance of an account holder of the financial institution on a check presented by the account holder to the financial institution.


LRB094 06590 LCB 36681 b

 

 

A BILL FOR

 

SB1518 LRB094 06590 LCB 36681 b

1     AN ACT concerning business transactions.
 
2     Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
3 represented in the General Assembly:
 
4     Section 5. The Consumer Fraud and Deceptive Business
5 Practices Act is amended by adding Section 2VV as follows:
 
6     (815 ILCS 505/2VV new)
7     Sec. 2VV. Information recorded on checks; prohibition.
8     (a) It is an unlawful practice within the meaning of this
9 Act for a financial institution to record the driver's license
10 number, social security number, or account balance of an
11 account holder of the financial institution on a check
12 presented by the account holder to the financial institution.
13     (b) As used in this Section:
14     "Financial institution" means (i) any bank subject to the
15 Illinois Banking Act, any savings bank subject to the Savings
16 Bank Act, any savings and loan association subject to the
17 Illinois Savings and Loan Act of 1985, or any credit union
18 subject to the Illinois Credit Union Act; or (ii) any federally
19 chartered commercial bank, savings bank, savings and loan
20 association, or credit union organized and operated in this
21 State under the laws of the United States.
22     "Check" means a writing that (i) complies with the
23 requirements of Section 3-104 of the Uniform Commercial Code
24 and (ii) is payable by a third party to an account holder.
25     "Account holder" means a person having a deposit account in
26 a financial institution.