SB0878ham001 95TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY

Executive Committee

Filed: 5/28/2008

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AMENDMENT TO SENATE BILL 878

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

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

(20 ILCS 687/6-2)

(Section scheduled to be repealed on December 12, 2015)

Sec. 6-2. Findings and intent. The The General Assembly finds and declares that it is desirable to obtain the environmental quality, public health, and fuel diversity benefits of developing new renewable energy resources and clean coal technologies for use in Illinois and to lower the cost of renewable energy resources and clean coal resources provided to utility consumers. The General Assembly finds and declares that the benefits of electricity from renewable energy resources and clean coal technologies accrue to the public at large, thus consumers and electric utilities and alternative retail electric suppliers share an interest in developing and using a significant level of these environmentally preferable resources in the State's electricity supply portfolio. The General Assembly finds and declares that encouraging energy efficiency will improve the environmental quality and public health in the State of Illinois.

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