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Full Text of SB1703  100th General Assembly

SB1703sam001 100TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY

Sen. Neil Anderson

Filed: 3/10/2017

 

 


 

 


 
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AMENDMENT TO SENATE BILL 1703

2    AMENDMENT NO. ______. Amend Senate Bill 1703 by replacing
3everything after the enacting clause with the following:
 
4    "Section 5. The Public Utilities Act is amended by changing
5Section 16-101 as follows:
 
6    (220 ILCS 5/16-101)
7    Sec. 16-101. Short title and applicability.
8    (a) This Article may be cited as the the Electric Service
9Customer Choice and Rate Relief Law of 1997 and shall apply to
10electric utilities and alternative retail electric suppliers
11as defined in this Article. Except to the extent modified or
12supplemented by the provisions of this Article, or where the
13context clearly renders such provisions inapplicable, the
14other Articles of the Public Utilities Act pertaining to public
15utilities, public utility rates and services and the regulation
16thereof, are fully and equally applicable to the tariffed

 

 

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1services electric utilities provide.
2    (b) The provisions of subsections (a) through (h) of
3Section 16-111 of this Act shall not be applicable to any
4electric utility which elects to file biennial rate proceedings
5before the Commission in the years 1998, 2000 and 2002. An
6electric utility electing this option shall do so by filing a
7notice of such election with the Commission within 60 days
8after the effective date of this amendatory Act of 1997, or its
9right to make such election shall be irrevocably waived. An
10electric utility electing the option specified in this
11paragraph shall file its rate proceeding with the Commission no
12later than August 1 of the years 1998, 2000, and 2002. The
13electric utility's filing shall comply with all requirements of
1483 Illinois Administrative Code Parts 255 and 285 as though the
15electric utility were filing for an increase in its rates,
16without regard to whether such filing would produce an
17increase, a decrease or no change in the electric utility's
18rates and the Commission shall review the electric utility's
19filing and shall issue its order in accordance with the
20provisions of Section 9-201 of this Act.
21(Source: P.A. 90-561, eff. 12-16-97.)".