HB3965 96TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY

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96TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2009 and 2010
HB3965

Introduced 2/26/2009, by Rep. Deborah L. Graham

SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:

815 ILCS 505/2HH

Amends the Consumer Fraud and Deceptive Business Practices Act. Changes provisions concerning the billing and collection practices of electric service providers so that they apply to "utility service providers" rather than "electric service providers". Provides that credit bureaus that receive personal consumer information from a utility service provider may not use that information to determine credit scores.

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 Consumer Fraud and Deceptive Business Practices Act is amended by changing Section 2HH as follows:

(815 ILCS 505/2HH)

Sec. 2HH. Billing and collection practices of utility electric service providers. Each person selling generation, transmission, distribution, metering, or billing of any utility electric service shall display the name, the toll-free telephone number of such service provider, and a description of the services provided on all bills submitted to subscribers of such services. All personal information relating to the subscriber of generation, transmission, distribution, metering, or billing of any utility electric service shall be maintained by the service providers solely for the purpose of generating the bill for such services, and shall not be divulged to any other persons with the exception of credit bureaus, collection agencies, and persons licensed to market utility services electric service in the State of Illinois, without the written consent of the subscriber. Credit bureaus that receive personal consumer information from a utility service provider may not use that information to determine credit scores.

(Source: P.A. 90-561, eff. 12-16-97.)