Full Text of HB2380 102nd General Assembly
HB2380ham001 102ND GENERAL ASSEMBLY | Rep. Lawrence Walsh, Jr. Filed: 3/12/2021
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| 1 | | AMENDMENT TO HOUSE BILL 2380
| 2 | | AMENDMENT NO. ______. Amend House Bill 2380 as follows:
| 3 | | on page 1, line 5, after "Sections", by inserting "13-406,"; | 4 | | and | 5 | | on page 1, immediately below line 5, by inserting the | 6 | | following:
| 7 | | "(220 ILCS 5/13-406) (from Ch. 111 2/3, par. 13-406)
| 8 | | (Section scheduled to be repealed on December 31, 2021)
| 9 | | Sec. 13-406. Abandonment of service. | 10 | | (a) No telecommunications carrier offering or providing
| 11 | | noncompetitive telecommunications service pursuant to a valid
| 12 | | Certificate of Service Authority or certificate of public | 13 | | convenience and
necessity shall discontinue or abandon such | 14 | | service once initiated until
and unless it shall demonstrate, | 15 | | and the Commission finds, after notice and
hearing, that such |
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| 1 | | discontinuance or abandonment will not deprive customers
of | 2 | | any necessary or essential telecommunications service or | 3 | | access thereto
and is not otherwise contrary to the public | 4 | | interest. No
telecommunications carrier offering or providing | 5 | | competitive
telecommunications service shall completely | 6 | | discontinue or abandon such service to an identifiable class | 7 | | or group of customers once
initiated except upon 60 days | 8 | | notice to the Commission and affected
customers. The | 9 | | Commission may, upon its own motion or upon complaint,
| 10 | | investigate the proposed discontinuance or abandonment of a | 11 | | competitive
telecommunications service and may, after notice | 12 | | and hearing, prohibit such
proposed discontinuance or | 13 | | abandonment if the Commission finds that it
would be contrary | 14 | | to the public interest. If the Commission does not provide | 15 | | notice of a hearing within 60 calendar days after the | 16 | | notification or holds a hearing and fails to find that the | 17 | | proposed discontinuation or abandonment would be contrary to | 18 | | the public interest, the provider may discontinue or abandon | 19 | | such service after providing at least 30 days' days notice to | 20 | | affected customers. This Section does not apply to a Large | 21 | | Electing Provider proceeding under Section 13-406.1.
| 22 | | (b) A Small Electing Provider may choose to cease offering | 23 | | or providing a telecommunications service pursuant to either | 24 | | this Section or Section 13-406.1 of this Act in the same manner | 25 | | as a Large Electing Provider. A Small Electing Provider that | 26 | | elects to cease offering or providing a telecommunications |
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| 1 | | service pursuant to Section 13-406.1 shall be subject to all | 2 | | of the provisions that apply to a Large Electing Provider | 3 | | under Section 13-406.1. In this subsection (b), "Small | 4 | | Electing Provider" means an incumbent local exchange carrier, | 5 | | as defined in Section 13-202.5 of this Act, that is an Electing | 6 | | Provider, as defined in Section 13-506.2 of this Act, and | 7 | | that, together with all of its incumbent local exchange | 8 | | carrier affiliates offering telecommunications services within | 9 | | the State of Illinois, has fewer than 40,000 subscriber access | 10 | | lines as of January 1, 2020. | 11 | | (Source: P.A. 100-20, eff. 7-1-17 .)".
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