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 1        AN ACT to amend the  Public  Utilities  Act  by  changing
 2    Section 13-901.

 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 13-901 as follows:

 7        (220 ILCS 5/13-901) (from Ch. 111 2/3, par. 13-901)
 8        (Section scheduled to be repealed on July 1, 1999)
 9        Sec. 13-901.  Operator Service Provider.
10        (a)  For the purposes of this Section:
11             (1)  "Operator   service   provider"   means   every
12        telecommunications   carrier   that   provides   operator
13        services  or  any  other  person  or  entity   that   the
14        Commission determines is providing operator services.
15             (2)  "Aggregator" means any person or entity that is
16        not an operator service provider and that in the ordinary
17        course  of  its  operations makes telephones available to
18        the  public  or  to  transient  users  of  its   premises
19        including,  but not limited to, a hotel, motel, hospital,
20        or university for telephone calls between  points  within
21        this  State  that  are  specified  by  the  user using an
22        operator service provider.
23             (3)  "Operator       services"       means       any
24        telecommunications service that includes, as a component,
25        any automatic or live assistance to a consumer to arrange
26        for billing or completion, or both, of a  telephone  call
27        between  points  within  this State that are specified by
28        the user through a method other than:
29                  (A)  automatic completion with billing  to  the
30             telephone from which the call originated;
31                  (B)  completion  through  an  access  code or a
 
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 1             proprietory account number  used  by  the  consumer,
 2             with  billing  to  an account previously established
 3             with the carrier by the consumer; or
 4                  (C)  completion in association  with  directory
 5             assistance services.
 6        (b)  The  Commission  shall,  by rule or order, adopt and
 7    enforce  operating  requirements   for   the   provision   of
 8    operator-assisted services. The rules shall apply to operator
 9    service  providers  and  to  aggregators.  The rules shall be
10    compatible  with  the   rules    adopted   by   the   Federal
11    Communications   Commission   under   the  federal  Telephone
12    Operator Consumer Services Improvement  Act  of  1990.  These
13    requirements  shall  address,  but not necessarily be limited
14    to, the following:
15             (1)  oral and written notification of  the  identity
16        of  the operator service provider and the availability of
17        information regarding operator  service  provider  rates,
18        collection methods, and complaint resolution methods;
19             (2)  restrictions   on   billing   and  charges  for
20        operator services;
21             (3)  restrictions on "call splashing" as  that  term
22        is defined in 47 C.F.R. Section 64.708;
23             (4)  access  to other telecommunications carriers by
24        the use of access codes including,  but  not  limited  to
25        800, 888, 950, and 10XXX numbers;
26             (5)  the   appropriate   routing   and  handling  of
27        emergency calls;
28             (6)  the enforcement of these rules through  tariffs
29        for  operator services and by a requirement that operator
30        service providers withhold  payment  of  compensation  to
31        aggregators  that  have  been found to be noncomplying by
32        the Commission.
33        (c)  The Commission shall adopt  any  rule  necessary  to
34    make  rules  previously adopted under this Section compatible
 
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 1    with the rules of the Federal  Communications  Commission  no
 2    later  than  one  year  after  the  effective  date  of  this
 3    amendatory Act of 1993.
 4        (d)  A  violation  of  any rule adopted by the Commission
 5    under subsection (b) is a business offense subject to a  fine
 6    of  not  less than $1,000 nor more than $5,000.  In addition,
 7    the Commission may,  after  notice  and  hearing,  order  any
 8    telecommunications   carrier  to  terminate  service  to  any
 9    aggregator found to have violated any rule.
10        (e)  This Section is repealed on July 1, 1999.
11    (Source: P.A. 90-38, eff. 6-27-97.)

12        Section 99.  Effective date.  This Act takes effect  upon
13    becoming law.

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