HB5282 94TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY

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94TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2005 and 2006
HB5282

Introduced 01/25/06, by Rep. Robert Rita

SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:

815 ILCS 601/20

Amends the Automatic Contract Renewal Act. Provides that the Act does not apply to insurance contracts.

A BILL FOR

AN ACT concerning business.

Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly:

Section 5. The Automatic Contract Renewal Act is amended by changing Section 20 as follows:

(815 ILCS 601/20)

Sec. 20. Applicability.

(a) This Act does not apply to a contract entered into before the effective date of this Act.

(b) This amendatory Act of the 93rd General Assembly does not apply to a contract entered into before the effective date of this amendatory Act of the 93rd General Assembly.

(c) This Act does not apply to business-to-business contracts.

(d) This Act does not apply to banks, trust companies, savings and loan associations, savings banks, or credit unions licensed or organized under the laws of any state or the United States, or any foreign bank maintaining a branch or agency licensed or organized under the laws of any state of the United States, or any subsidiary or affiliate thereof.

(e) This Act does not apply to a contract that is extended beyond the original term of the contract as the result of the consumer's initiation of a change in the original contract terms.

(f) This Act does not apply to insurance contracts.

(Source: P.A. 93-950, eff. 1-1-05.)