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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, 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 the 
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    consumer playing a single player or multiplayer game 
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    through the Internet or that may be downloaded for the 
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    consumer to play on his or her computer outside of the 
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    Internet. "Internet game gaming service provider" does not 
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    include online gambling or other gaming where a consumer 
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    can enter to win money.
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    (b) This Section applies only to agreements under which an 
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Internet game gaming service provider provides service to 
 


 






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consumers, for home and personal use, for a stated term that is 
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automatically renewed for another term unless the consumer 
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cancels the service.
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    (c) An Internet game gaming service provider must give a 
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consumer who is an Illinois resident a disclosure of the 
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methods the consumer may use to cancel the service. One of the 
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methods of cancellation must provide for online cancellation of 
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the service via email, chat, instant messaging, web-based 
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forms, or any other means of communicating information over a 
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computer network the following: (1) a secure method at the 
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Internet gaming service provider's web site that the consumer 
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may use to cancel the service, which method shall not require 
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the consumer to make a telephone call or send U.S. Postal 
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Service mail to effectuate the cancellation; and (2) 
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instructions that the consumer may follow to cancel the service 
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at the Internet gaming service provider's web site.
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    (d) This Section does not apply to any entity that merely 
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provides the host platform on the web site to the Internet game 
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gaming service provider. 
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    (e) A person who violates this Section commits an unlawful 
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practice within the meaning of this Act. 

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

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