93RD GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2003 and 2004
HB5838

 

Introduced 2/6/2004, by Michael J. Madigan

 

SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
 
20 ILCS 687/6-2

    Amends the Renewable Energy, Energy Efficiency, and Coal Resources Development Law of 1997. Makes a technical change in Section concerning legislative findings.


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A BILL FOR

 

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1     AN ACT concerning coal development.
 
2     Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
3 represented in the General Assembly:
 
4     Section 5. The Renewable Energy, Energy Efficiency, and
5 Coal Resources Development Law of 1997 is amended by changing
6 Section 6-2 as follows:
 
7     (20 ILCS 687/6-2)
8     (Section scheduled to be repealed on December 16, 2007)
9     Sec. 6-2. Findings and intent. The General Assembly finds
10 and declares that it is desirable to obtain the environmental
11 quality, public health, and fuel diversity benefits of
12 developing new renewable energy resources and clean coal
13 technologies for use in this State Illinois and to lower the
14 cost of renewable energy resources and clean coal resources
15 provided to utility consumers. The General Assembly finds and
16 declares that the benefits of electricity from renewable energy
17 resources and clean coal technologies accrue to the public at
18 large, thus consumers and electric utilities and alternative
19 retail electric suppliers share an interest in developing and
20 using a significant level of these environmentally preferable
21 resources in the State's electricity supply portfolio. The
22 General Assembly finds and declares that encouraging energy
23 efficiency will improve the environmental quality and public
24 health in the State of Illinois.
25 (Source: P.A. 90-561, eff. 12-16-97.)