Public Act 096-0047
 		





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    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 and renumbering Section 
2AAA, as added by Public Act 95-765, as follows:
 
    (815 ILCS 505/2CCC)
    Sec. 2CCC
2AAA. Internet game gaming service provider; 
cancellation.
    (a) As used in this Section:
        "Internet game gaming service provider" means a person 
    who provides a web site that includes information, 
    software, data, text, photographs, graphics, sound, or 
    video that may be accessed by a consumer on a paid 
    subscription basis for a fee for the purpose of the 
    consumer playing a single player or multiplayer game 
    through the Internet or that may be downloaded for the 
    consumer to play on his or her computer outside of the 
    Internet. "Internet game gaming service provider" does not 
    include online gambling or other gaming where a consumer 
    can enter to win money.
    (b) This Section applies only to agreements under which an 
Internet game gaming service provider provides service to 
consumers, for home and personal use, for a stated term that is 
automatically renewed for another term unless the consumer 
cancels the service.
    (c) An Internet game gaming service provider must give a 
consumer who is an Illinois resident a disclosure of the 
methods the consumer may use to cancel the service. One of the 
methods of cancellation must provide for online cancellation of 
the service via email, chat, instant messaging, web-based 
forms, or any other means of communicating information over a 
computer network the following: (1) a secure method at the 
Internet gaming service provider's web site that the consumer 
may use to cancel the service, which method shall not require 
the consumer to make a telephone call or send U.S. Postal 
Service mail to effectuate the cancellation; and (2) 
instructions that the consumer may follow to cancel the service 
at the Internet gaming service provider's web site.
    (d) This Section does not apply to any entity that merely 
provides the host platform on the web site to the Internet game 
gaming service provider. 
    (e) A person who violates this Section commits an unlawful 
practice within the meaning of this Act. 

(Source: P.A. 95-765, eff. 1-1-09; revised 9-25-08.)
 

    Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon 
becoming law.