Bill Text: IL HB0718 | 2019-2020 | 101st General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Amends the Public Utilities Act. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the reading of meters.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2019-04-12 - Rule 19(a) / Re-referred to Rules Committee [HB0718 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2019-HB0718-Introduced.html

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101ST GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2019 and 2020 HB0718 Introduced , by Rep. Michael J. Madigan SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
220 ILCS 5/8-302 from Ch. 111 2/3, par. 8-302
Amends the Public Utilities Act. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the reading of meters.
LRB101 03446 JRG 48454 b
A BILL FOR
HB0718 LRB101 03446 JRG 48454 b
AN ACT concerning regulation.
Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
represented in the General Assembly:
Section 5. The Public Utilities Act is amended by changing
Section 8-302 as follows:
(220 ILCS 5/8-302) (from Ch. 111 2/3, par. 8-302)
Sec. 8-302. The The Commission shall require that every
public utility furnishing natural or artificial gas,
electricity or water to the public, where the individual
consumption is measured by meter, shall, upon written request
of any consumer, cause the meter reader at the time of reading
such consumer's meter to leave at such meter a card showing the
present reading of the meter, the last previous reading, and
the dates of such two readings.
(Source: P.A. 84-617.)