Illinois General Assembly - Bill Status for HB5025

Creates the Funeral Practices Act. Provides that in selling or offering to sell funeral goods or funeral services to the public, it is an unfair or deceptive act or practice for a funeral provider to not furnish accurate price information disclosing the cost to the purchaser for each of the specific funeral goods and funeral services used in connection with the disposition of deceased human bodies. Provides that if a funeral provider complies with preventive requirements he or she is not engaged in unfair or deceptive acts or practices. Provides that in selling or offering to sell funeral goods or funeral services to the public, it is a deceptive act or practice for a funeral provider to misrepresent provisions concerning embalming, caskets for cremations, outer burial containers, and cash advances. Provides that funeral providers must retain and make available for inspection by the Federal Trade Commission true and accurate copies of price lists for at least one year after the date of their last distribution to customers, and a copy of each statement of funeral goods and services selected, for at least one year from the date of the arrangements conference. Provides that funeral providers must make all disclosures to the customer in a clear and conspicuous manner.

Deletes everything after the enacting clause. Creates the Funeral Practices Act and amends the Consumer Fraud and Deceptive Business Practices Act. Inserts provisions substantially similar to those of HB 5025, except: (1) provides that cash advance items are not subject to the provisions of the Unemployment Insurance Act, (2) provides that funeral goods means the goods which are sold or offered for sale directly to the public for use in connection with funeral services by a funeral home, cemetery, crematory, casket retailer, memorial retailer or their employees and agents (instead of a funeral directors, cemetarian, cremationists, casket retailer, and memorial retailer), (3) provides similar language for the definition of funeral services as funeral goods, (4) adds a Section concerning enforcement of the Act, (5) amends the Consumer Fraud and Deceptive Business Practices Act to provide that any person who knowingly violates the Funeral Practices Act commits an unlawful practice, and (6) makes technical and grammatical changes.

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