Bill Text: IL HB0898 | 2015-2016 | 99th General Assembly | Introduced

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

Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2015-04-24 - Rule 19(a) / Re-referred to Rules Committee [HB0898 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2015-HB0898-Introduced.html

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99TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2015 and 2016 HB0898 Introduced , by Rep. Michael J. Madigan SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
220 ILCS 5/13-101 from Ch. 111 2/3, par. 13-101
Amends the Public Utilities Act. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning telecommunications.
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A BILL FOR
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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 13-101 as follows:
(220 ILCS 5/13-101) (from Ch. 111 2/3, par. 13-101)
(Section scheduled to be repealed on July 1, 2015)
Sec. 13-101. Application of Act to telecommunications
rates and services. The The Sections of this Act pertaining to
public utilities, public utility rates and services, and the
regulation thereof, are fully and equally applicable to
noncompetitive telecommunications rates and services, and the
regulation thereof, except to the extent modified or
supplemented by the specific provisions of this Article or
where the context clearly renders such provisions
inapplicable. Articles I through IV, Sections 5-101, 5-106,
5-108, 5-110, 5-201, 5-202.1, 5-203, 8-301, 8-305, 8-501,
8-502, 8-503, 8-505, 8-509, 8-509.5, 8-510, 9-221, 9-222,
9-222.1, 9-222.2, 9-241, 9-250, and 9-252.1, and Article X of
this Act are fully and equally applicable to the noncompetitive
and competitive services of an Electing Provider and to
competitive telecommunications rates and services, and the
regulation thereof except that Section 5-109 shall apply to the

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services of an Electing Provider and to competitive
telecommunications rates and services only to the extent that
the Commission requires annual reports authorized by Section
5-109, provided the telecommunications provider may use
generally accepted accounting practices or accounting systems
it uses for financial reporting purposes in the annual report,
and except that Sections 8-505 and 9-250 shall not apply to
competitive retail telecommunications services and Sections
8-501 and 9-241 shall not apply to competitive services; in
addition, as to competitive telecommunications rates and
services, and the regulation thereof, and with the exception of
competitive retail telecommunications service rates and
services, all rules and regulations made by a
telecommunications carrier affecting or pertaining to its
charges or service shall be just and reasonable. As of the
effective date of this amendatory Act of the 92nd General
Assembly, Sections 4-202, 4-203, and 5-202 of this Act shall
cease to apply to telecommunications rates and services.
(Source: P.A. 98-45, eff. 6-28-13.)