Consumer Protection Committee
Filed: 4/20/2004
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| 1 | AMENDMENT TO SENATE BILL 2858
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| 2 | AMENDMENT NO. ______. Amend Senate Bill 2858 by replacing | ||||||
| 3 | everything after the enacting clause with the following:
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| 4 | "Section 5. The Consumer Fraud and Deceptive Business | ||||||
| 5 | Practices Act is amended by adding Section 2QQ as follows: | ||||||
| 6 | (815 ILCS 505/2QQ new) | ||||||
| 7 | Sec. 2QQ. Internet service; cancellation.
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| 8 | (a) As used in this Section: | ||||||
| 9 | "Internet service provider" means a person who provides a | ||||||
| 10 | service that combines computer processing, information | ||||||
| 11 | storage, protocol conversion, and routing with transmission to | ||||||
| 12 | enable a consumer to access Internet content and services. | ||||||
| 13 | (b) This Section applies only to agreements under which an | ||||||
| 14 | Internet service provider provides service to consumers, for | ||||||
| 15 | home and personal use, for a one-year term that is | ||||||
| 16 | automatically renewed for another one-year term unless a | ||||||
| 17 | consumer cancels the service. | ||||||
| 18 | (c) An Internet service provider must give a consumer who | ||||||
| 19 | is an Illinois resident the following: (1) a secure method at | ||||||
| 20 | the Internet service provider's web site that the consumer may | ||||||
| 21 | use to cancel the service, which method shall not require the | ||||||
| 22 | consumer to make a telephone call or send U.S. Postal Service | ||||||
| 23 | mail to effectuate the cancellation; and (2) instructions that | ||||||
| 24 | the consumer may follow to cancel the service at the Internet | ||||||
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| 1 | service provider's web site. | ||||||
| 2 | (d) A person who violates this Section commits an unlawful | ||||||
| 3 | practice within the meaning of this Act.".
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