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91_HB3022
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1 AN ACT to amend the Public Utilities Act by changing
2 Section 13-506.
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 13-506 as follows:
7 (220 ILCS 5/13-506)
8 (Section scheduled to be repealed on July 1, 2001)
9 Sec. 13-506. Tariffs for competitive telecommunications
10 services.
11 (a) Telecommunications carriers may file proposed
12 tariffs for any competitive telecommunications service that
13 which includes and specifically describes a range, band,
14 formula, or standard within which or by which a change in
15 rates or charges for such telecommunications service could be
16 made without prior notice or prior Commission approval,
17 provided that any and all rates or charges within the band or
18 range, or determinable by the operation of the formula or
19 standard, are consistent with the public interest and the
20 purpose and policies of this Article and Act, and are likely
21 to remain so for the foreseeable future. To the extent any
22 proposed band or range encompasses rates or charges which are
23 not consistent with the public interest and the purposes and
24 policies of this Article and Act or otherwise fully proper,
25 or any proposed formula or standard determines rates or
26 charges which are not consistent with the purposes and
27 policies of this Article and Act or otherwise fully proper,
28 the Commission after notice and hearing shall have the power
29 to modify the level, scope, or limits of such band or range,
30 and to modify or limit the operation of such formula or
31 standard, as necessary, to ensure that rates or charges
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1 resulting therefrom are consistent with the purposes and
2 policies of this Article and Act and fully proper, and likely
3 to remain so in the foreseeable future.
4 (b) The Commission may require a telecommunications
5 carrier to file a variable tariff as described in paragraph
6 (a) for any or all competitive telecommunications services
7 which are offered or provided by such carrier, if the
8 Commission finds, after notice and hearing, that the
9 determination of rates or charges for such service by a
10 tariff would improve the Commission's ability to effectively
11 regulate such rates or charges and that such improvement is
12 required by the public interest. Any such tariff required by
13 the Commission shall be approved only if it is also
14 consistent with the provisions of paragraph (a) of this
15 Section.
16 (c) After a tariff filed pursuant to this Section
17 becomes effective, the telecommunications carrier shall
18 determine the rates and charges for services according to the
19 provisions thereof.
20 (Source: P.A. 90-185, eff. 7-23-97; 90-574, eff. 3-20-98;
21 90-655, eff. 7-30-98.)