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90_HB0101
220 ILCS 5/2-103 from Ch. 111 2/3, par. 2-103
Amends the Public Utilities Act to prohibit employees of
the Illinois Commerce Commission from becoming employed by a
regulated public utility within 2 years after the end of
their employment with the Commission. Extends certain
existing employment limitations applicable to Commissioners
from one to 2 years. Effective July 1, 1997.
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1 AN ACT to amend the Public Utilities Act by changing
2 Section 2-103.
3 Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
4 represented in the General Assembly:
5 Section 5. The Public Utilities Act is amended by
6 changing Section 2-103 as follows:
7 (220 ILCS 5/2-103) (from Ch. 111 2/3, par. 2-103)
8 Sec. 2-103. Employment limitations.
9 (a) No former member of the Commission may, for a period
10 of 2 years (one year in the case of a person whose service as
11 a Commissioner ends before July 1, 1997) following the
12 termination of his or her services with the Commission,
13 represent any person before the Commission in a professional
14 capacity with respect to any particular Commission matter in
15 which he or she participated personally and substantially as
16 a member of the Commission.
17 (b) No former member of the Commission may act as agent
18 or attorney for any one other than the State of Illinois in
19 connection with any particular Commission matter in which he
20 or she participated personally and substantially as a member
21 of the Commission, through decision, approval, disapproval,
22 recommendation, the rendering of service, investigation, or
23 otherwise.
24 (c) No former member of the Commission may accept any
25 employment with any public utility subject to Commission
26 regulations for 2 years (one year in the case of a person
27 whose service as a Commissioner ends before July 1, 1997)
28 following the termination of his or her services with the
29 Commission.
30 (d) No public utility subject to Commission regulation
31 shall offer a former member of the Commission employment for
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1 a period of 2 years (one year in the case of a person whose
2 service as a Commissioner ends before July 1, 1997) following
3 the termination of the former Commission member's service
4 with the Commission, or otherwise hire such person as an
5 agent or attorney where such employment or contractual
6 relation would be in violation of this Section.
7 (e) While employed by the Commission and for 2 years
8 following the end of his or her employment with the
9 Commission, a person shall not accept employment with or
10 agree to perform services for or on behalf of any public
11 utility subject to regulation by the Commission.
12 (f) A public utility subject to regulation by the
13 Commission shall not offer employment to any current employee
14 of the Commission or otherwise engage or contract with a
15 current employee of the Commission to perform services for or
16 on behalf of the public utility.
17 A public utility subject to regulation by the Commission
18 shall not offer employment to any former employee of the
19 Commission whose employment with the Commission ends on or
20 after July 1, 1997, or otherwise engage or contract with such
21 a former employee of the Commission to perform services for
22 or on behalf of the public utility, for a period of 2 years
23 following the termination of the former employee's employment
24 with the Commission.
25 (g) For the purposes of subsections (e) and (f), a
26 person who directly provides legal, technical, or other
27 personal services to the Commission under a contract shall be
28 deemed to be an employee of the Commission for the duration
29 of the contract, regardless of whether the contracting party
30 is the person individually or a firm, partnership, or other
31 business entity with which the person is affiliated.
32 (Source: P.A. 84-617.)
33 Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect July
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1 1, 1997.