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93RD GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2003 and 2004
HB5405
Introduced 02/06/04, by Michael J. Madigan SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
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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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HB5405 |
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LRB093 17299 AMC 42965 b |
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| AN ACT concerning utilities.
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| Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
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| represented in the General Assembly:
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| Section 5. The Public Utilities Act is amended by changing |
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| Section 16-101 as follows:
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| (220 ILCS 5/16-101)
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| Sec. 16-101. Short title and applicability.
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| (a) This Article may
be cited as the Electric Service |
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| Customer Choice and Rate
Relief Law of 1997 and shall apply to |
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| electric utilities and
alternative retail electric suppliers |
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| as defined in this
Article. Except to the extent modified or |
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| supplemented by the
provisions of this Article, or where the |
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| context clearly
renders such provisions inapplicable, the |
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| other Articles of
the Public Utilities Act pertaining to public |
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| utilities, public utility rates
and services and the regulation |
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| thereof, are fully and equally
applicable to the tariffed |
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| services electric utilities
provide.
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| (b) The provisions of subsections (a) through (h) of |
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| Section 16-111 of this
Act shall not be applicable to any |
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| electric utility which elects to file
biennial rate proceedings |
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| before the Commission in the years 1998, 2000 and
2002. An |
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| electric utility electing this option shall do so by filing a |
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| 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 |
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| right to make such election shall be
irrevocably waived. An |
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| electric utility electing the option specified in this
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| paragraph shall file its rate proceeding with the Commission no |
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| later than
August 1 of the years 1998, 2000, and 2002. The |
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| electric utility's filing
shall comply with all requirements of |
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| 83 Illinois Administrative Code Parts 255
and 285 as though the |
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| electric utility were filing for an increase in its
rates, |
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| without regard to whether such filing would produce an |