Illinois General Assembly - Bill Status for SB0482

Amends the Illinois Funeral or Burial Funds Act. Provides that a separate completed contract shall be issued for cemetery merchandise, cemetery services, or undeveloped interment, entombment, or inurnment spaces, and not covered by this Act, unless certain conditions are met. Provides that licenses and license renewals shall be issued for a 5-year term. Provides requirements for license renewal and makes conforming changes in other provisions. Amends the Crematory Regulation Act, the Cemetery Care Act, and the Illinois Pre-Need Cemetery Sales Act. Provides that licenses and license renewals shall be issued for a 5-year term. Provides requirements for license renewal and makes conforming changes in other provisions of the Acts. Adds additional contract requirements under the Illinois Pre-Need Cemetery Sales Act. In the Cemetery Care Act, provides that the Comptroller shall examine at least annually every licensee who holds $750,000 or more (was, $250,000 or more) in its care funds. Amends the Consumer Fraud and Deceptive Business Practices Act. Provides that no person authorized by law to sell funeral services on an at need basis may also sell cemetery services, cemetery merchandise, or interment, inurnment, or entombment spaces on an at need basis, unless the person is also authorized by law to sell such cemetery services, merchandise, or spaces and issues to the consumer a separate contract with the provider of such cemetery services, merchandise, or spaces. Provides requirements for completed contracts. Effective January 1, 2006.

Replaces everything after the enacting clause with the bill as introduced with the following changes. In provisions concerning license renewal in the Illinois Funeral or Burial Funds Act, the Crematory Regulation Act, the Cemetery Care Act, and the Illinois Pre-Need Cemetery Sales Act, (i) provides for the expiration of an existing license according to a schedule developed by the Comptroller pursuant to the original date of issuance and (ii) provides that the Comptroller may prescribe abbreviated application renewal forms for persons holding multiple licenses issued by the Comptroller. In provisions amending the Illinois Funeral or Burial Funds Act, the Cemetery Care Act, and the Illinois Pre-Need Cemetery Sales Act, (i) provides that certain disclosures may be confidential or contain propriety information and (ii) changes certain references from an applicant to a licensee. In provisions amending the Illinois Pre-Need Cemetery Sales Act and the Consumer Fraud and Deceptive Business Practices Act, provides that, upon request by the purchaser, each contract may include a current copy of the provider's rules and regulations pertaining to the site of the completed interment, entombment, or inurnment spaces, if such spaces are to be provided under the contract, and makes conforming changes. In provisions amending the Consumer Fraud and Deceptive Business Practices Act, provides that no person authorized by law to sell funeral services on an at need basis may also sell or arrange for the purchase of (was, sell) cemetery services, cemetery merchandise, or interment, inurnment, or entombment spaces on an at need basis, unless the person is also authorized by law to sell or arrange for the purchase of (was, sell) such cemetery services, merchandise, or spaces and issues to the consumer a separate contract with the provider of such cemetery services, merchandise, or spaces. Makes other changes. Effective January 1, 2006.

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