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| | 104TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2025 and 2026
HB3021 Introduced 2/6/2025, by Rep. Abdelnasser Rashid SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
| | | Amends the Consumer Fraud and Deceptive Business Practices Act. Provides that it is an unlawful practice for any person to engage in a commercial transaction or trade practice with a consumer in which: (1) the consumer is communicating or otherwise interacting with a chatbot, artificial intelligence agent, avatar, or other computer technology that engages in a textual or aural conversation; (2) the communication may mislead or deceive a reasonable consumer to believe that the consumer is communicating with a human representative; and (3) the consumer is not notified in a clear and conspicuous manner that the consumer is communicating with an artificial intelligence system and not a human representative. Effective January 1, 2026. |
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| | HB3021 | | LRB104 06307 SPS 16342 b |
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| 1 | | AN ACT concerning business.
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| 2 | | Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, |
| 3 | | represented in the General Assembly:
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| 4 | | Section 5. The Consumer Fraud and Deceptive Business |
| 5 | | Practices Act is amended by adding Section 2HHHH as follows:
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| 6 | | (815 ILCS 505/2HHHH new) |
| 7 | | Sec. 2HHHH. Commercial transactions; artificial |
| 8 | | intelligence disclosure. It is an unlawful practice within the |
| 9 | | meaning of this Act, whether or not a consumer is in fact |
| 10 | | misled, deceived, or damaged, for any person to engage in a |
| 11 | | commercial transaction or trade practice with a consumer in |
| 12 | | which: |
| 13 | | (1) the consumer is communicating or otherwise |
| 14 | | interacting with a chatbot, artificial intelligence agent, |
| 15 | | avatar, or other computer technology that engages in a |
| 16 | | textual or aural conversation; |
| 17 | | (2) the communication may mislead or deceive a |
| 18 | | reasonable consumer to believe that the consumer is |
| 19 | | communicating with a human representative; and |
| 20 | | (3) the consumer is not notified in a clear and |
| 21 | | conspicuous manner that the consumer is communicating with |
| 22 | | an artificial intelligence system and not a human |
| 23 | | representative.
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