Illinois House Bill 5021

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 5-0)
Status: Introduced on February 7 2024 - 25% progression
Action: 2024-04-05 - Rule 19(a) / Re-referred to Rules Committee
Pending: House Rules Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [HTML]

Creates the Municipal and Cooperative Electric Utility Planning and Transparency Act. Sets forth legislative findings and objectives. Provides that beginning on November 1, 2024, and every 3 years thereafter on November 1, all electric cooperatives with members in the State, municipal power agencies, and municipalities shall file with the Illinois Power Agency an integrated resource plan. Includes provisions regarding the purposes and available resources for the integrated resource plan and rulemaking powers of the Agency. Requires the Agency to maintain a list of qualified experts or expert consulting firms for the purpose of developing integrated resource plans. Sets forth meeting requirements for an electric cooperative and publishing and posting requirements for specific information related to an electric cooperative. Amends the Open Meetings Act. Provides that a public body may hold closed meetings to consider the operation by a municipality of a municipal utility or the operation of a municipal power agency or municipal natural gas agency when the discussion involves certain topics. Amends the Illinois Municipal Code. Allows any additional municipality which operates an electric utility system to join a municipal power agency consistent with the bylaws of the municipal power agency, and upon payment of any termination obligations. Outlines a number of requirements for a municipal power agency. Makes other changes. Amends the Public Utilities Act. In a provision regarding net electricity metering, defines "electricity provider" and "electric utility". Makes other changes. Amends the Eminent Domain Act. Provides that for all acquisitions where the property, or any right or interest in property, is to be used for utility purposes, and where the condemning authority is an entity required to submit an integrated resource plan under the Municipal and Cooperative Electric Utility Planning and Transparency Act, the rebuttable presumption that such acquisition of that property is primarily for the benefit, use, or enjoyment of the public and necessary for a public purpose shall only apply if the most recent integrated resource plan filed by the condemning authority identified the facility or articulated a need for a facility similar capacity and type to the facility for which the property or right or interest is sought. Effective immediately.

UTIL-BOARD ELECT PLANNING

Rep. Janet Yang Rohr [D]	Rep. Maura Hirschauer [D]	Rep. Anne Stava-Murray [D]	Rep. Robyn Gabel [D]
Rep. Joyce Mason [D]

Date	Chamber	Action
2024-04-05	House	Rule 19(a) / Re-referred to Rules Committee
2024-03-27	House	Added Co-Sponsor Rep. Joyce Mason
2024-03-06	House	To Utilities Subcommittee
2024-02-28	House	Assigned to Public Utilities Committee
2024-02-21	House	Added Chief Co-Sponsor Rep. Robyn Gabel
2024-02-20	House	Added Chief Co-Sponsor Rep. Anne Stava-Murray
2024-02-20	House	Added Chief Co-Sponsor Rep. Maura Hirschauer
2024-02-08	House	Referred to Rules Committee
2024-02-08	House	First Reading
2024-02-07	House	Filed with the Clerk by Rep. Janet Yang Rohr

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
220	5	16-107.5	Amended Code	Citation Text
220	5	17-500	Amended Code	Citation Text
5	120	2	Amended Code	Citation Text
65	5	11-119.1-10	Amended Code	Citation Text
65	5	11-119.1-4	Amended Code	Citation Text
65	5	11-119.1-5.5	New Code	See Bill Text
735	30	5-5-5	Amended Code	Citation Text

Type	Source
Summary	https://www.ilga.gov/legislation/BillStatus.asp?DocNum=5021&GAID=17&DocTypeID=HB&SessionID=112&GA=103
Text	https://www.ilga.gov/legislation/103/HB/10300HB5021.htm