Illinois House Bill 4588 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Completed Legislative Action
Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Republican 1)
Status: Failed on December 3 2014 - 100% progression
Action: 2014-12-03 - Session Sine Die
Text: Latest bill text (Amended) [HTML]

Amends the Illinois Municipal Code. Provides that any investor-owned public utility, municipal-owned public utility, public or municipal corporation, or political subdivision furnishing water or sewer service may discontinue service only on a day followed by a business day and after the water or sewer utility has mailed or delivered by other means a written notice of discontinuance. Provides that specified water or sewer utilities shall not consider a customer's bill, when paid in person, past due unless the payment is made after the due date printed on the bill. Provides that the due date printed on the bill may not be less than 28 days after the date upon which (i) the bill is mailed to the customer, (ii) the bill is delivered in person to the customer, (iii) the bill is sent electronically to the customer, or (iv) the customer is notified that the bill is available electronically. Provides that the bill shall include a bill date that shall not be less than 28 days prior to the due date on the bill. Makes similar changes in the Public Utilities Act. Effective immediately.

UTIL-WATER SEWER DISCONNECT

Rep. Joe Sosnowski [R]

Date	Chamber	Action
2014-12-03	House	Session Sine Die
2014-03-28	House	House Committee Amendment No. 1 Rule 19(a) / Re-referred to Rules Committee
2014-03-28	House	Rule 19(a) / Re-referred to Rules Committee
2014-03-03	House	House Committee Amendment No. 1 Rules Refers to Public Utilities Committee
2014-02-25	House	House Committee Amendment No. 1 Referred to Rules Committee
2014-02-25	House	House Committee Amendment No. 1 Filed with Clerk by Rep. Joe Sosnowski
2014-02-18	House	Assigned to Public Utilities Committee
2014-02-04	House	Referred to Rules Committee
2014-02-04	House	First Reading
2014-02-04	House	Filed with the Clerk by Rep. Joe Sosnowski

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
220	5	8-306	Amended Code	Citation Text
65	5	11-117-12.3	New Code	See Bill Text
65	5	11-117-12.5	New Code	See Bill Text
65	5	11-141-7	Amended Code	Citation Text

Type	Source
Summary	https://www.ilga.gov/legislation/BillStatus.asp?DocNum=4588&GAID=12&DocTypeID=HB&SessionID=85&GA=98
Text	https://www.ilga.gov/legislation/98/HB/09800HB4588.htm
Text	https://www.ilga.gov/legislation/98/HB/09800HB4588ham001.htm