A BILL FOR AN ACT to amend the Indiana Code concerning trade regulation.

Plain English Breakdown

The official source material does not provide specific details about the actions courts can take, nor does it clarify how this change will impact existing consumer protection laws for regular citizens.

Expanding Consumer Protection Laws

This bill changes Indiana's laws about unfair business practices to include transactions with government agencies.

What This Bill Does

• Changes the definition of 'consumer transaction' to cover when a product or service is given to state or local government agencies in Indiana.
• Expands who can be called a 'supplier' under these rules to include anyone providing products or services to state or local government agencies.
• Says that only the attorney general can take legal action if there's an unfair business practice involving state agencies.
• Allows an attorney representing a local agency to sue for unfair practices, unless the local government asks the attorney general to handle it instead.

Who It Names or Affects

• State and local government agencies in Indiana
• Businesses that sell products or services to these agencies

Terms To Know

consumer transaction

A deal where a product or service is given from one party to another, now including deals with state and local government.

supplier

An entity that provides products or services, which now includes those who sell to state and local government agencies.

Limits and Unknowns

• The bill does not specify what actions courts can take in cases involving unfair business practices with government agencies.
• It is unclear how this change will affect existing consumer protection laws for regular citizens.

Official Summary Text

A BILL FOR AN ACT to amend the Indiana Code concerning trade regulation.
Deceptive consumer sales.

Current Bill Text

A BILL FOR AN ACT to amend the Indiana Code concerning trade regulation.

Deceptive consumer sales.

Amends the definition of "consumer transaction" for purposes of the deceptive consumer sales act to include the provision of a product or service to a state agency or a local agency in Indiana. Amends the definition of "supplier" for purposes of the deceptive consumer sales act to include an entity that provides a product or service to a state agency or a local agency in Indiana. Provides that an action that arises from a consumer transaction involving the provision of a product or service by a supplier to a state agency may be brought and enforced only by the attorney general. Provides that an action that arises from a consumer transaction involving the provision of a product or service by a supplier to a local agency may be brought and enforced only by an attorney acting on behalf of the local agency, unless the local unit of government served by the local agency requests the attorney general to bring and enforce an action on behalf of the local unit. Provides that in an action that arises from a consumer transaction involving the provision of a product or service by a supplier to a state agency or a local agency, a court may take certain actions.