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 1                    AMENDMENT TO HOUSE BILL 1632

 2        AMENDMENT NO.     .  Amend House Bill 1632  by  replacing
 3    everything after the enacting clause with the following:

 4        "Section  5.  The  Consumer  Fraud and Deceptive Business
 5    Practices Act is amended by adding Section 2P.1 as follows:

 6        (815 ILCS 505/2P.1 new)
 7        Sec. 2P.1.  Telemarketing; free trials.
 8        (a)  As used in this  Section,  "telemarketing"  means  a
 9    plan,  program,  or campaign which is conducted to induce the
10    purchase  of  goods  or  services  by  use  of  one  or  more
11    telephones and which involves calls to or from more than  one
12    consumer.
13        (b)  A person or entity that, by means of a telemarketing
14    plan,  program, or campaign, offers free goods or services to
15    an Illinois consumer on a trial basis and assesses a periodic
16    fee or charge for the goods or services after the end of  the
17    free  trial  period must send to the consumer who accepts the
18    free goods or services an invoice that the consumer  may  use
19    to  pay  the  periodic  fee  or  charge  or indicate that the
20    consumer no longer wishes to receive the  goods  or  services
21    after  the  end  of  the  free trial period. The invoice must
22    contain an address and telephone number the consumer may  use
 
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 1    to  cancel  the  goods  or services if the consumer no longer
 2    wishes to receive the free goods or services after the end of
 3    the free trial period.
 4        (c)  Violation of this Section  constitutes  an  unlawful
 5    practice within the meaning of this Act.".