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90_HB1249
815 ILCS 505/2EE new
Amends the Consumer Fraud and Deceptive Business
Practices Act. Provides that it is unlawful to advertise or
solicit patrons to a gambling establishment without including
a statement regarding obtaining assistance with gambling
problems and including a toll-free "800" telephone number
providing crisis counseling and referral services to problem
gamblers. Effective January 1, 1998.
LRB9004244LDdv
LRB9004244LDdv
1 AN ACT to amend the Consumer Fraud and Deceptive Business
2 Practices Act by adding Section 2EE.
3 Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
4 represented in the General Assembly:
5 Section 5. The Consumer Fraud and Deceptive Business
6 Practices Act is amended by adding Section 2EE as follows:
7 (815 ILCS 505/2EE new)
8 Sec. 2EE. Gambling advertising. It is an unlawful
9 practice for any person, whether the person is in Illinois or
10 not, to send any advertising or solicitation relating to
11 gambling or a gambling establishment to a person in Illinois
12 without including on the advertisement or solicitation a
13 statement regarding obtaining assistance with gambling
14 problems and including the toll-free "800" telephone number
15 maintained by the Department of Human Services under Section
16 5-20 of the Alcoholism and Other Drug Abuse and Dependency
17 Act.
18 Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect
19 January 1, 1998.