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| | 104TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2025 and 2026
HB4260 Introduced 1/14/2026, by Rep. Amy Briel SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
| | | Amends the Consumer Fraud and Deceptive Business Practices Act. Provides that every hospital must advertise what services it provides. Provides that every hospital providing telehealth services must specify that those services are provided via telehealth. Provides that every hospital must make clearly available on its website information about what services it provides and what services are provided via telehealth. |
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| | HB4260 | | LRB104 16490 SPS 29886 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 2MMMM as follows:
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| 6 | | (815 ILCS 505/2MMMM new) |
| 7 | | Sec. 2MMMM. Hospital services advertising. |
| 8 | | (a) As used in this Section: |
| 9 | | "Hospital" means a hospital licensed under the Hospital |
| 10 | | Licensing Act or a hospital organized under the University of |
| 11 | | Illinois Hospital Act. |
| 12 | | "Telehealth services" has the meaning given to that term |
| 13 | | in the Telehealth Act. |
| 14 | | (b) Every hospital must advertise what services it |
| 15 | | provides. Every hospital providing telehealth services must |
| 16 | | specify that those services are provided via telehealth. Every |
| 17 | | hospital must make clearly available on its website |
| 18 | | information about what services it provides and what services |
| 19 | | are provided via telehealth. |
| 20 | | (c) A person who violates this Section commits an unlawful |
| 21 | | practice within the meaning of this Act. |