Full Text of HR0361 095th General Assembly
HR0361 95TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
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| HOUSE RESOLUTION
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| WHEREAS, The citizens of Illinois are entitled to safe, | 3 |
| affordable, and reliable electric service; and
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| WHEREAS, Electricity is an essential service for Illinois' | 5 |
| 12.5 million citizens; and
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| WHEREAS, The General Assembly passed the Electric Service | 7 |
| Customer Choice and Rate Relief Law of 1997, which gave | 8 |
| Illinois residential consumers a rate reduction and froze their | 9 |
| electric rates from 1997 through 2006; and
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| WHEREAS, In 2007, most Illinois electric utilities no | 11 |
| longer own generation facilities and must procure energy in the | 12 |
| wholesale marketplace on behalf of Illinois residential | 13 |
| customers; and
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| WHEREAS, Illinois residential electric consumers are | 15 |
| seeing massive increases to their electric bills in 2007; and
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| WHEREAS, All parties in this dispute, including the | 17 |
| electrical service providers, have expressed the willingness | 18 |
| to work together to moderate the effects of electrical rate | 19 |
| increases upon all affected customers; and
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| WHEREAS, There is an urgent need to develop an agreed | 2 |
| transitional program to reduce electrical rates to affected | 3 |
| consumers, and the vast majority of both parties serving in | 4 |
| both houses of the General Assembly would willingly vote for | 5 |
| such a plan; therefore, be it | 6 |
| RESOLVED, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE | 7 |
| NINETY-FIFTH GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that we | 8 |
| urge the convocation of a summit of the Governor and the four | 9 |
| legislative leaders to meet with consumer advocates, | 10 |
| commercial and industrial consumers of electricity, electrical | 11 |
| service providers, and the Illinois Commerce Commission to | 12 |
| develop legislation to create an agreed electrical pricing | 13 |
| policy for the State of Illinois; and be it further
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| RESOLVED, That a copy of this resolution be presented to | 15 |
| the Governor of Illinois, the Speaker of the House, the House | 16 |
| Minority Leader, the President of the Senate, and the Senate | 17 |
| Minority Leader.
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