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90_HB0239
815 ILCS 505/2B.3 new
Amends the Consumer Fraud and Deceptive Business
Practices Act. Provides that it is an unlawful practice for
a person to discriminate, with respect to the price charged
for services of a similar or like kind, against a person
because of the person's gender. Provides that these
provisions do not prohibit certain price differentiations.
LRB9001655NTsb
LRB9001655NTsb
1 AN ACT to amend the Consumer Fraud and Deceptive Business
2 Practices Act by adding Section 2B.3.
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 2B.3 as follows:
7 (815 ILCS 505/2B.3 new)
8 Sec. 2B.3. Discrimination based on gender.
9 (a) It is an unlawful practice for a person to
10 discriminate, with respect to the price charged for services
11 of similar or like kind, against a person because of the
12 person's gender.
13 (b) Nothing in subsection (a) prohibits price
14 differences based specifically upon the amount of time,
15 difficulty, or cost of providing the services.
16 (c) Nothing in subsection (a) prohibits the
17 differentiation of prices or charges for insurance
18 underwriting or rating practices or for health care services.