Bill Text: IL HB4147 | 2025-2026 | 104th General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Creates the Home Utility Relief Act. Requires the Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity to create, as soon as practicable, a Home Utility Rebate Program to provide rebates to households that use electricity and that have a median household income between 100% and 500% of the poverty guidelines updated periodically in the Federal Register by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Provides that eligible households shall receive the rebates as soon as practicable after implementation of the program. Requires the Department to, by rule, establish qualifications for program participation which may include requirements that apply under the Energy Assistance Act and other requirements. Provides that rebates provided under the program shall be funded through appropriations made from the Home Utility Rebate Relief Fund created under the Act. Requires the State Comptroller to direct and the State Treasurer to transfer $500,000,000 from the General Revenue Fund to the Home Utility Rebate Relief Fund to provide rebates to qualifying households for State fiscal years 2026 and 2027. Provides that any funds left over at the end of the second month following the conclusion of payments to households in a fiscal year may be awarded to certain qualifying first-time small business owners as determined by the Department. Requires the Department to adopt emergency rules in accordance with the Illinois Administrative Procedure Act to implement the program. Amends the State Finance Act to include the Home Utility Rebate Relief Fund as a special fund. Effective immediately.

Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Republican 2)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2026-06-15 - Added Co-Sponsor Rep. Kyle Moore [HB4147 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2025-HB4147-Introduced.html

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104TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2025 and 2026HB4147 Introduced , by Rep. Regan Deering SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
New Act
5 ILCS 100/5-45.70 new
30 ILCS 105/5.1038 new
Creates the Home Utility Relief Act. Requires the Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity to create, as soon as practicable, a Home Utility Rebate Program to provide rebates to households that use electricity and that have a median household income between 100% and 500% of the poverty guidelines updated periodically in the Federal Register by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Provides that eligible households shall receive the rebates as soon as practicable after implementation of the program. Requires the Department to, by rule, establish qualifications for program participation which may include requirements that apply under the Energy Assistance Act and other requirements. Provides that rebates provided under the program shall be funded through appropriations made from the Home Utility Rebate Relief Fund created under the Act. Requires the State Comptroller to direct and the State Treasurer to transfer $500,000,000 from the General Revenue Fund to the Home Utility Rebate Relief Fund to provide rebates to qualifying households for State fiscal years 2026 and 2027. Provides that any funds left over at the end of the second month following the conclusion of payments to households in a fiscal year may be awarded to certain qualifying first-time small business owners as determined by the Department. Requires the Department to adopt emergency rules in accordance with the Illinois Administrative Procedure Act to implement the program. Amends the State Finance Act to include the Home Utility Rebate Relief Fund as a special fund. Effective immediately.
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A BILL FOR
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AN ACT concerning public aid.
Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
represented in the General Assembly:
Section 1. Short title. This Act may be cited as the Home
Utility Relief Act.
Section 5. Home Utility Rebate Program.
(a) As soon as practicable, the Department of Commerce and
Economic Opportunity shall create a Home Utility Rebate
Program to provide rebates to households that use electricity
and that have a median household income between 100% and 500%
of the poverty guidelines updated periodically in the Federal
Register by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
under the authority of 42 U.S.C. 9902(2). Eligible households
shall receive the rebates as soon as practicable after
implementation of the program. The Department shall, by rule,
establish qualifications for program participation, which may
include requirements that apply under the Energy Assistance
Act and other requirements.
(b) Rebates provided under the program shall be funded
through appropriations made from the Home Utility Rebate
Relief Fund created under Section 10. The State Comptroller
shall direct and the State Treasurer shall transfer
$500,000,000 from the General Revenue Fund to the Home Utility

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Rebate Relief Fund to provide rebates to qualifying households
for State fiscal years 2026 and 2027. Any funds left over at
the end of the second month following the conclusion of
payments to households in a fiscal year may be awarded to
certain qualifying first-time small business owners as
determined by the Department.
(c) The Department shall adopt emergency rules in
accordance with the Illinois Administrative Procedure Act to
implement the Home Utility Rebate Program.
Section 10. Home Utility Rebate Relief Fund. The Home
Utility Rebate Relief Fund is created as a special fund in the
State treasury. The Fund shall consist of any moneys deposited
into the Fund as provided under subsection (b) of Section 5.
Moneys in the Fund shall be expended for the Home Utility
Rebate Program as provided under Section 5 and for no other
purpose. All interest earned on moneys in the Fund shall be
deposited into the Fund.
Section 15. The Illinois Administrative Procedure Act is
amended by adding Section 5-45.70 as follows:
(5 ILCS 100/5-45.70 new)
Sec. 5-45.70. Emergency rulemaking; Home Utility Rebate
Program. To provide for the expeditious and timely
implementation of the Home Utility Rebate Program authorized

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under the Home Utility Relief Act, emergency rules
implementing the Home Utility Rebate Program may be adopted in
accordance with Section 5-45 by the Department of Commerce and
Economic Opportunity. The adoption of emergency rules
authorized by Section 5-45 and this Section is deemed to be
necessary for the public interest, safety, and welfare.
This Section is repealed 3 years after the effective date
of this amendatory Act of the 104th General Assembly.
Section 20. The State Finance Act is amended by adding
Section 5.1038 as follows:
(30 ILCS 105/5.1038 new)
Sec. 5.1038. The Home Utility Rebate Relief Fund.
Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon
becoming law.