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91_HB4196
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1 AN ACT to amend the Consumer Fraud and Deceptive Business
2 Practices Act by adding Section 2KK.
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 2KK as follows:
7 (815 ILCS 505/2KK new)
8 Sec. 2KK. Billing practices for cellular phone service.
9 (a) As used in this Section:
10 (1) "Cellular phone" means a device that by means
11 of two-way cellular, broadband PCS, geographic area 800
12 MHZ and 900 MHZ commercial mobile radio service, wireless
13 communications service, or other commercial mobile radio
14 service, as defined by the Federal Communications
15 Commission, enables a person to engage in real-time,
16 two-way voice communication and is interconnected with
17 the public switched network.
18 (2) "Wireless carrier" means a provider of two-way
19 cellular, broadband PCS, geographic area 800 MHZ and 900
20 MHZ Commercial Mobile Radio Service (CMRS), Wireless
21 Communications Service (WCS), or other Commercial Mobile
22 Radio Service (CMRS), as defined by the Federal
23 Communications Commission, offering radio communications
24 that may provide fixed, mobile, radio location, or
25 satellite communication services to individuals or
26 businesses within its assigned spectrum block and
27 geographical area or that offers real-time, two-way voice
28 service that is interconnected with the public switched
29 network, including a reseller of such service.
30 (b) A wireless carrier may not impose a charge on a
31 consumer for receiving a call by means of a cellular phone
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1 that has a telephone number within an area code assigned to
2 Illinois by the North American Numbering Plan Administrator
3 unless the consumer is given a reasonable opportunity to
4 cancel receipt of the call after answering without incurring
5 a charge or any other obligation.
6 (c) Any person who violates this Section commits an
7 unlawful practice within the meaning of this Act.