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| | 103RD GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2023 and 2024
HB1281 Introduced 1/31/2023, by Rep. Daniel Didech SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
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Amends the Consumer Fraud and Deceptive Business Practices Act. Provides that the furnishing of health care services by a health care professional or health care provider may not be conditioned on the patient providing a credit card number to be kept on file by the health care professional or health care provider. Provides that a violation constitutes an unlawful practice within the meaning of the Act.
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| | HB1281 | | LRB103 04649 SPS 49657 b |
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| 1 | | AN ACT concerning business.
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| 2 | | Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
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| 3 | | represented in the General Assembly:
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| 4 | | Section 5. The Consumer Fraud and Deceptive Business |
| 5 | | Practices Act is amended by adding Section 2BBBB as follows:
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| 6 | | (815 ILCS 505/2BBBB new) |
| 7 | | Sec. 2BBBB. Use of credit cards when providing health care |
| 8 | | services. |
| 9 | | (a) As used in this Section: |
| 10 | | "Health care professional" means a physician, registered |
| 11 | | professional nurse, or other individual appropriately licensed |
| 12 | | or registered to provide health care services. |
| 13 | | "Health care provider" means any physician, hospital |
| 14 | | facility, facility licensed under the Home Nursing Care Act, |
| 15 | | long-term care facility as defined in Section 1-113 of the |
| 16 | | Nursing Home Care Act, or other person that is appropriately |
| 17 | | licensed or registered to provide health care services. |
| 18 | | "Health care provider" does not include independent practice |
| 19 | | associations or physician-hospital organizations. |
| 20 | | "Patient" means the individual who is receiving health |
| 21 | | care services from the health care professional or health care |
| 22 | | provider and any individual who is the guarantor of the |
| 23 | | payment for such services. |