SB1140 Enrolled LRB096 07217 MJR 17303 b

1     AN ACT concerning regulation.
 
2     Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
3 represented in the General Assembly:
 
4     Section 5. The Public Utilities Act is amended by adding
5 Section 16-111.8 as follows:
 
6     (220 ILCS 5/16-111.8 new)
7     Sec. 16-111.8. Rate relief; electricity suppliers. On and
8 after the effective date of this amendatory Act of the 96th
9 General Assembly, any electric utility providing rate relief
10 pursuant to Section 16-111.5A of this Act shall not deem any
11 residential or non-residential customer to be ineligible to
12 receive that relief solely based upon that customer's purchase
13 of electricity from a supplier other than that electric utility
14 at the time the rate relief is to be credited to that customer.
15 Nothing in this Section shall entitle customers of an electric
16 utility that had been previously deemed ineligible prior to the
17 effective date of this amendatory Act of the 96th General
18 Assembly to become eligible for rate relief credits.
 
19     Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon
20 becoming law.