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91_SB0085

 
                                               LRB9101780RCpk

 1        AN ACT to amend the Consumer Fraud and Deceptive Business
 2    Practices Act by adding Section 2JJ.

 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 2JJ as follows:

 7        (815 ILCS 505/2JJ new)
 8        Sec. 2JJ.  Shoppers club information.
 9        (a)  It is an unlawful practice for any person who is  an
10    officer,   manager,   or  employee  of  a  retail  mercantile
11    establishment to sell, give, or permit access by a person who
12    is not  an  officer,  manager,  or  employee  of  the  retail
13    mercantile  establishment  to any information contained in an
14    application for a shoppers  club  membership  or  information
15    concerning purchases of merchandise with a shoppers club card
16    without the consent of the applicant or member.
17        (b)  For the purposes of this Section:
18        "Merchandise"   means   any  item  of  tangible  personal
19    property.
20        "Retail mercantile establishment" means any  place  where
21    merchandise  is  sold  or  offered  for sale at retail to the
22    public or to persons who are members of the shopper's club.
23        "Shoppers club" means a membership in a  discount  buying
24    program  in  which  the purchaser is given a reduction in the
25    price of the merchandise by displaying a card that when  used
26    with  an electronic scanning device or sales recording device
27    at the time of the purchase of the merchandise  displays  the
28    discount price of the merchandise.

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