HB2086 96TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY

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96TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2009 and 2010
HB2086

Introduced 2/18/2009, by Rep. Michael J. Madigan - Barbara Flynn Currie - Marlow H. Colvin

SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:

815 ILCS 140/1a

from Ch. 17, par. 6002

Amends the Credit Card Issuance Act. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning unlawful discrimination.

A BILL FOR

AN ACT concerning business.

Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly:

Section 5. The Credit Card Issuance Act is amended by changing Section 1a as follows:

(815 ILCS 140/1a) (from Ch. 17, par. 6002)

Sec. 1a. No person may be denied a credit card, upon proper application therefor, solely on account of unlawful discrimination, as defined and and prohibited in Section 4-103 of the Illinois Human Rights Act. No question requesting any information concerning an applicant's marital status shall appear on any credit card application except in connection with an application for a joint account.

(Source: P.A. 81-1216.)