Bill Text: IL SB3014 | 2015-2016 | 99th General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Amends the Public Utilities Act. Provides that an electric utility serving more than 1,000,000 customers shall make available at no cost to an alternative retail electric supplier a list of customer names and addresses of residential and small commercial customers who have not been declared competitive for the purpose of marketing alternative retail electric supply service. Provides that the Illinois Commerce Commission may allow additional information on the lists if it finds the information necessary to allow innovative product offerings. Provides that customers shall have the right to remove their information from the marketing list at least annually. Effective immediately.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-04-08 - Rule 3-9(a) / Re-referred to Assignments [SB3014 Detail]
Download: Illinois-2015-SB3014-Introduced.html
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| 1 | AN ACT concerning regulation.
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| 2 | Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
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| 3 | represented in the General Assembly:
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| 4 | Section 5. The Public Utilities Act is amended by changing | |||||||||||||||||||
| 5 | Section 16-122 as follows:
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| 6 | (220 ILCS 5/16-122)
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| 7 | Sec. 16-122. Customer information.
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| 8 | (a) Upon the request of a retail customer, or a person
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| 9 | presents verifiable authorization and is acting as the
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| 10 | customer's agent, and payment of a reasonable fee, electric
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| 11 | utilities shall provide to the customer or its authorized
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| 12 | the customer's billing and usage data.
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| 13 | (b) Upon request from any alternative retail electric
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| 14 | supplier and payment of a reasonable fee, an electric utility
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| 15 | serving retail customers in its service area shall make
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| 16 | available generic information concerning the usage, load shape
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| 17 | curve or other general characteristics of customers by rate
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| 18 | classification. Provided however, no customer specific
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| 19 | billing, usage or load shape data shall be provided under this
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| 20 | subsection unless authorization to provide such information is
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| 21 | provided by the customer pursuant to subsection (a) of this
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| 22 | Section.
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| 23 | (c) Upon request from a unit of local government and | |||||||||||||||||||
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| 1 | payment of a
reasonable fee, an electric utility shall make | ||||||
| 2 | available information concerning
the usage, load shape curves, | ||||||
| 3 | and other characteristics of customers by
customer | ||||||
| 4 | classification and location within the boundaries of the unit | ||||||
| 5 | of local
government, however, no customer specific billing, | ||||||
| 6 | usage, or load shape data
shall be provided under this | ||||||
| 7 | subsection unless authorization to provide that
information is | ||||||
| 8 | provided by the customer.
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| 9 | (d) All such customer information shall be made available
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| 10 | in a timely fashion in an electronic format, if available.
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| 11 | (e) An electric utility serving more than 1,000,000 | ||||||
| 12 | customers shall make available at no cost to an alternative | ||||||
| 13 | retail electric supplier a list of customer names and addresses | ||||||
| 14 | of residential and small commercial customers who have not been | ||||||
| 15 | declared competitive for the purpose of marketing alternative | ||||||
| 16 | retail electric supply service. The Commission may allow | ||||||
| 17 | additional information on the lists if it finds the information | ||||||
| 18 | necessary to allow innovative product offerings. Customers | ||||||
| 19 | shall have the right to remove their information from the | ||||||
| 20 | marketing list at least annually. | ||||||
| 21 | (Source: P.A. 92-585, eff. 6-26-02.)
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| 22 | Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon | ||||||
| 23 | becoming law.
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