Executive Committee
Filed: 5/28/2008
 
 

 




 

 		












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AMENDMENT TO SENATE BILL 878 




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    AMENDMENT NO. ______. Amend Senate Bill 878  by replacing 
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everything after the enacting clause with the following:


 
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    "Section 5. The Renewable Energy, Energy Efficiency, and 
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Coal Resources
Development Law of 1997 is amended by changing 
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Section 6-2 as follows:
 



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    (20 ILCS 687/6-2)


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    (Section scheduled to be repealed on December 12, 2015)

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    Sec. 6-2. Findings and intent. The The General Assembly

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finds and declares that it is desirable to obtain the

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environmental quality, public health, and fuel diversity

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benefits of developing new renewable energy resources and
clean 
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coal technologies for use in Illinois and to lower the
cost of 
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renewable energy resources and clean coal resources
provided to 
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utility consumers. The General Assembly finds and
declares that 
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the benefits of electricity from renewable
energy resources and 
 


 






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clean coal technologies accrue to the
public at large, thus 
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consumers and electric utilities and
alternative retail 
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electric suppliers share an interest in
developing and using a 
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significant level of these
environmentally preferable 
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resources in the State's
electricity supply portfolio. The 
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General Assembly finds and
declares that encouraging energy 
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efficiency will improve the
environmental quality and public 
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health in the State of
Illinois.

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(Source: P.A. 90-561, eff. 12-16-97.)".