Illinois Senate Bill 50 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: Introduced on January 29 2021 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2022-06-15 - Chief Sponsor Changed to Sen. Don Harmon
Pending: Senate Assignments Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [HTML]

Amends the Public Utilities Act. Changes the definition of "public utility" to exclude commercial natural gas cooperatives. Provides that for a commercial natural gas cooperative to qualify and be recognized by the Illinois Commerce Commission, the properties that receive retail natural gas service from each commercial natural gas cooperative: (i) shall not have a public utility-owned natural gas transportation pipeline located within the properties at the time of commencement of service; (ii) shall comprise of not less than 500 acres and not more than 2,500 acres, which territory does not need to be contiguous; and (iii) shall be used exclusively for non-residential purposes. Effective July 1, 2021.

UTILITIES-GAS COOPERATIVE

Sen. Don Harmon [D]

Sen. Steve McClure [R]

Date	Chamber	Action
2022-06-15	Senate	Chief Sponsor Changed to Sen. Don Harmon
2021-04-30	Senate	Rule 3-9(a) / Re-referred to Assignments
2021-04-23	Senate	Rule 2-10 Third Reading Deadline Established As April 30, 2021
2021-04-20	Senate	Placed on Calendar Order of 3rd Reading April 21, 2021
2021-04-20	Senate	Second Reading
2021-04-15	Senate	Placed on Calendar Order of 2nd Reading April 20, 2021
2021-04-15	Senate	Do Pass as Amended Energy and Public Utilities; 016-000-000
2021-04-15	Senate	Senate Committee Amendment No. 1 Adopted
2021-04-13	Senate	Senate Committee Amendment No. 1 Assignments Refers to Energy and Public Utilities
2021-04-09	Senate	Senate Committee Amendment No. 1 Referred to Assignments
2021-04-09	Senate	Senate Committee Amendment No. 1 Filed with Secretary by Sen. Rachelle Crowe
2021-03-24	Senate	Added as Co-Sponsor Sen. Steve McClure
2021-02-09	Senate	Assigned to Energy and Public Utilities
2021-01-29	Senate	Referred to Assignments
2021-01-29	Senate	First Reading
2021-01-29	Senate	Filed with Secretary by Sen. Rachelle Crowe

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
220	5	3-105	Amended Code	Citation Text

Type	Source
Summary	https://www.ilga.gov/legislation/BillStatus.asp?DocNum=50&GAID=16&DocTypeID=SB&SessionID=110&GA=102
Text	https://www.ilga.gov/legislation/102/SB/10200SB0050.htm
Amendment	https://www.ilga.gov/legislation/102/SB/10200SB0050sam001.htm