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1    AN ACT concerning regulation.
 
2    Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
3represented in the General Assembly:
 
4    Section 5. The Public Utilities Act is amended by changing
5Section 19-135 as follows:
 
6    (220 ILCS 5/19-135)
7    Sec. 19-135. Single billing. It is the intent of the
8General Assembly that in any service area where customers are
9able to choose their natural gas supplier, a single billing
10option shall be offered to customers for both the services
11provided by the alternative gas supplier and the delivery
12services provided by the gas utility. A gas utility shall file
13a tariff pursuant to Article IX of this Act that allows
14alternative gas suppliers to issue single bills to residential
15and small commercial customers for both the services provided
16by the alternative gas supplier and the delivery services
17provided by the gas utility to customers; provided that if a
18form of single billing is being offered in a gas utility's
19service area on August 26, 2002, then the effective date of
20this amendatory Act of the 92nd General Assembly, that form of
21single billing shall remain in effect unless and until
22otherwise ordered by the Commission.
23    An alternative gas supplier may petition the Commission to

 

 

HB3037 Engrossed- 2 -LRB097 05720 ASK 45784 b

1establish a standardized, uniform form of single billing for
2use throughout the State by all gas utilities.
3(Source: P.A. 92-852, eff. 8-26-02.)