Bill Text: IL SB0715 | 2011-2012 | 97th General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Amends the Public Utilities Act. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the short title and applicability of the Electric Service Customer Choice and Rate Relief Law of 1997.

Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1)

Status: (Failed) 2013-01-08 - Session Sine Die [SB0715 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2011-SB0715-Introduced.html

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97TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2011 and 2012 SB0715 Introduced 2/8/2011, by Sen. John J. Cullerton SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
220 ILCS 5/16-101
Amends the Public Utilities Act. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the short title and applicability of the Electric Service Customer Choice and Rate Relief Law of 1997.
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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 16-101 as follows:
(220 ILCS 5/16-101)
Sec. 16-101. Short title and applicability.
(a) This Article may be cited as the the Electric Service
Customer Choice and Rate Relief Law of 1997 and shall apply to
electric utilities and alternative retail electric suppliers
as defined in this Article. Except to the extent modified or
supplemented by the provisions of this Article, or where the
context clearly renders such provisions inapplicable, the
other Articles of the Public Utilities Act pertaining to public
utilities, public utility rates and services and the regulation
thereof, are fully and equally applicable to the tariffed
services electric utilities provide.
(b) The provisions of subsections (a) through (h) of
Section 16-111 of this Act shall not be applicable to any
electric utility which elects to file biennial rate proceedings
before the Commission in the years 1998, 2000 and 2002. An
electric utility electing this option shall do so by filing a
notice of such election with the Commission within 60 days

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after the effective date of this amendatory Act of 1997, or its
right to make such election shall be irrevocably waived. An
electric utility electing the option specified in this
paragraph shall file its rate proceeding with the Commission no
later than August 1 of the years 1998, 2000, and 2002. The
electric utility's filing shall comply with all requirements of
83 Illinois Administrative Code Parts 255 and 285 as though the
electric utility were filing for an increase in its rates,
without regard to whether such filing would produce an
increase, a decrease or no change in the electric utility's
rates and the Commission shall review the electric utility's
filing and shall issue its order in accordance with the
provisions of Section 9-201 of this Act.
(Source: P.A. 90-561, eff. 12-16-97.)