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Public Utilities Committee
Filed: 5/5/2009
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| AMENDMENT TO SENATE BILL 1140
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| AMENDMENT NO. ______. Amend Senate Bill 1140 by replacing |
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| everything after the enacting clause with the following:
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| "Section 5. The Public Utilities Act is amended by adding |
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| Section 16-111.8 as follows: |
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| (220 ILCS 5/16-111.8 new) |
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| Sec. 16-111.8. Rate relief; electricity suppliers. On and |
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| after the effective date of this amendatory Act of the 96th |
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| General Assembly, any electric utility providing rate relief |
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| pursuant to Section 16-111.5A of this Act shall not deem any |
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| residential or non-residential customer to be ineligible to |
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| receive that relief solely based upon that customer's purchase |
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| of electricity from a supplier other than that electric utility |
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| at the time the rate relief is to be credited to that customer. |
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| Nothing in this Section shall entitle customers of an electric |
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| utility that had been previously deemed ineligible prior to the |