Bill Text: IL SB3153 | 2015-2016 | 99th General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Amends the Small Business Utility Advocate Act. Defines "small business" as any Illinois based business which meets the requirements under specified provisions of the Illinois Procurement Code (rather than the Illinois Small Business Purchasing Act).

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-07-31 - Pursuant to Senate Rule 3-9(b) / Referred to Assignments [SB3153 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2015-SB3153-Introduced.html

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99TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2015 and 2016 SB3153 Introduced 2/19/2016, by Sen. Wm. Sam McCann SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
220 ILCS 40/3 from Ch. 111 2/3, par. 1203
Amends the Small Business Utility Advocate Act. Defines "small business" as any Illinois based business which meets the requirements under specified provisions of the Illinois Procurement Code (rather than the Illinois Small Business Purchasing Act).
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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 Small Business Utility Advocate Act is
amended by changing Section 3 as follows:
(220 ILCS 40/3) (from Ch. 111 2/3, par. 1203)
Sec. 3. Definitions. For the purposes of this Act:
(a) "Commission" means the Illinois Commerce Commission,
or its successor agency.
(b) "Small business" means any Illinois based business
which meets the requirements under Section 45-45 of the
Illinois Procurement Code. 3 of the "Illinois Small Business
Purchasing Act", approved September 1, 1972, as now or
hereafter amended.
(c) "Customer" means a small business, as herein defined,
which has agreed with a utility to pay for gas, electric,
telecommunication, water or sanitary sewer utility service.
(d) "User" means a small business, as herein defined, which
receives gas, electric, telecommunication, water or sanitary
sewer utility service.
(e) "Utility service" means electricity, gas
telecommunications, water or sanitary sewer service supplied
by a public utility.

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(f) "Public utility" shall have the same meaning as defined
in Section 3 of the "Citizens Utility Board Act", certified
December 1, 1983, as now or hereafter amended.
(g) "Small Business Utility Advocate" or "Advocate" means
the person appointed pursuant to Section 4 of this Act.
(Source: P.A. 84-686.)