96TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2009 and 2010
HB1493

 

Introduced 2/18/2009, by Rep. Michael J. Madigan - Barbara Flynn Currie - Jack D. Franks

 

SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
 
20 ILCS 687/6-2

    Amends the Renewable Energy, Energy Efficiency, and Coal Resources Development Law of 1997. Makes a technical change in Section concerning legislative findings.


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A BILL FOR

 

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1     AN ACT concerning State government.
 
2     Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
3 represented in the General Assembly:
 
4     Section 5. The Renewable Energy, Energy Efficiency, and
5 Coal Resources Development Law of 1997 is amended by changing
6 Section 6-2 as follows:
 
7     (20 ILCS 687/6-2)
8     (Section scheduled to be repealed on December 12, 2015)
9     Sec. 6-2. Findings and intent. The The General Assembly
10 finds and declares that it is desirable to obtain the
11 environmental quality, public health, and fuel diversity
12 benefits of developing new renewable energy resources and clean
13 coal technologies for use in Illinois and to lower the cost of
14 renewable energy resources and clean coal resources provided to
15 utility consumers. The General Assembly finds and declares that
16 the benefits of electricity from renewable energy resources and
17 clean coal technologies accrue to the public at large, thus
18 consumers and electric utilities and alternative retail
19 electric suppliers share an interest in developing and using a
20 significant level of these environmentally preferable
21 resources in the State's electricity supply portfolio. The
22 General Assembly finds and declares that encouraging energy
23 efficiency will improve the environmental quality and public

 

 

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1 health in the State of Illinois.
2 (Source: P.A. 90-561, eff. 12-16-97.)