Sen. Don Harmon

Filed: 4/14/2010

 

 


 

 


 
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AMENDMENT TO HOUSE BILL 5378

2     AMENDMENT NO. ______. Amend House Bill 5378, on page 1,
3 line 5, by replacing "Section 16-117" with "Sections 16-117 and
4 19-130"; and
 
5 on page 3, by replacing line 12 with the following:
6 "be made subject to sufficient funds and appropriations as
7 described in subsection"; and
 
8 on page 7, immediately below line 25, by inserting the
9 following:
 
10     "(220 ILCS 5/19-130)
11     Sec. 19-130. Commission study and report. The Commission's
12 Office of Retail Market Development Beginning in 2003, and
13 ending in 2007, the Commission shall prepare an annual report
14 regarding the development of competitive retail natural gas
15 markets in Illinois. The report shall be filed by July 1 of

 

 

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1 each year with the Joint Committee on Legislative Support
2 Services of the General Assembly and the Governor and shall be
3 publicly available. The report shall include, at a minimum, the
4 following information:
5         (1) the aggregate annual demand of retail natural gas
6     customers in the State of Illinois in the preceding
7     calendar year;
8         (2) the total annual therms delivered and sold to
9     retail customers in the State of Illinois by each gas
10     utility and each alternative gas supplier in the preceding
11     calendar year;
12         (3) the percentage of therms delivered and sold to
13     customers in the State of Illinois in the preceding
14     calendar year by each gas utility and each alternative gas
15     supplier;
16         (4) the total number of customers in the State of
17     Illinois served in the preceding calendar year by each gas
18     utility and each alternative gas supplier;
19         (1) (5) an analysis of the status and development of
20     the retail natural gas market in the State of Illinois; and
21         (2) a discussion of any identified barriers to the
22     development of competitive retail natural gas markets in
23     the State of Illinois and proposed solutions to overcome
24     the identified barriers; and
25         (3) (6) any other information the Commission considers
26     significant in assessing the development of gas markets in

 

 

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1     the State of Illinois.
2     The Commission's Office of Retail Market Development shall
3 gather input from all interested parties as well as from other
4 bureaus within the Commission to aid in preparation of its
5 annual report, as well as in its assessment of barriers to the
6 development of competitive retail natural gas markets and
7 proposed solutions to overcome those barriers.
8 (Source: P.A. 92-852, eff. 8-26-02.)".