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96TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2009 and 2010
HB0617
Introduced 2/6/2009, by Rep. Raymond Poe SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
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Amends a Section of the Consumer Fraud and Deceptive Business Practices Act regarding Internet gaming service providers. Changes "Internet gaming service provider" to "Internet game service provider" and makes various changes to the definition of the term. Provides that the Section applies only to agreements under which an Internet game service provider provides consumers access to its service or the games on its site, for home and personal use, on a paid subscription basis for a stated term that is automatically renewed for another term unless the consumer cancels the service (rather than to agreements under which an
Internet 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). Provides that an Internet game service provider must give a consumer who is an Illinois resident instructions for canceling the paid subscription, and that these instructions should be posted on the Internet game service provider's web site (rather than providing that an Internet gaming service provider must give such a consumer a secure method at the 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 instructions that the consumer may follow to cancel the service at the Internet gaming service provider's web site). Adds language providing that the Section does not require an Internet game service provider to adopt a particular method of cancellation. Effective January 1, 2010.
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| AN ACT concerning business.
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| Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
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| represented in the General Assembly:
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| Section 5. The Consumer Fraud and Deceptive Business |
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| Practices Act is amended by changing and renumbering Section |
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| 2AAA to 2CCC, as added by Public Act 95-765, as follows:
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| (815 ILCS 505/2CCC) |
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| Sec. 2CCC
2AAA. Internet game gaming service provider; |
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| cancellation. |
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| (a) As used in this Section: |
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| "Internet game gaming service provider" means a person |
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| who provides a web site that includes information, |
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| software, data, text, photographs, graphics, sound, or |
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| video that may be accessed by a consumer on a paid |
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| subscription basis for a fee for the purpose of enabling |
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| the consumer to play playing a single player or multiplayer |
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| game on through the Internet or that may be downloaded to |
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| for the consumer's computer consumer to play offline for so |
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| long as that person remains a paid subscriber on his or her |
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| computer outside of the Internet. "Internet game gaming |
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| service provider" does not include online gambling or other |
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| gaming where a consumer can enter to win money. |
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| (b) This Section applies only to agreements under which an |