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Rep. Raymond Poe
Filed: 3/19/2009
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| AMENDMENT TO HOUSE BILL 617
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| AMENDMENT NO. ______. Amend House Bill 617 by replacing |
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| everything after the enacting clause with the following:
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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. |