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1 AMENDMENT TO SENATE BILL 700
2 AMENDMENT NO. . Amend Senate Bill 700 by replacing
3 the title with the following:
4 "AN ACT relating to competition in the telecommunications
5 industry amending named Acts."; and
6 by replacing everything after the enacting clause with the
7 following:
8 "Section 5. The Public Utilities Act is amended by
9 changing Sections 13-102 and 13-103 as follows:
10 (220 ILCS 5/13-102) (from Ch. 111 2/3, par. 13-102)
11 (This Section is scheduled to be repealed July 1, 1999.)
12 Sec. 13-102. Findings. With respect to
13 telecommunications services, as herein defined, the General
14 Assembly finds that:
15 (a) universally available and widely affordable
16 telecommunications services are essential to the health,
17 welfare and prosperity of all Illinois citizens;
18 (b) recent federal regulatory and judicial rulings in
19 the 1980s have caused a restructuring of the
20 telecommunications industry and have opened some aspects of
21 the industry to competitive entry, thereby necessitating
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1 revision of State telecommunications regulatory policies and
2 practices;
3 (c) revisions in telecommunications regulatory policies
4 and practices in Illinois beginning in the mid-1980s brought
5 the benefits of competition to consumers in many
6 telecommunications markets, but not in local exchange
7 telecommunications service markets;
8 (d) the federal Telecommunications Act of 1996
9 established the goal of opening all telecommunications
10 service markets to competition and accords to the states the
11 responsibility to establish and enforce policies necessary to
12 attain that goal;
13 (e) it is in the immediate interest of the People of the
14 State of Illinois for the State to exercise its rights within
15 the new framework of federal telecommunications policy to
16 ensure that the economic benefits of competition in all
17 telecommunications service markets are realized as
18 effectively as possible;
19 (f) (c) the competitive offering of all
20 telecommunications services will increase may create the
21 potential for increased innovation and efficiency in the
22 provision of telecommunications services and may lead to
23 reduced prices for consumers, increased investment in
24 communications infrastructure, the creation of new jobs, and
25 the attraction of new businesses to Illinois; and
26 (g) (d) protection of the public interest requires
27 changes in the continued regulation of telecommunications
28 carriers and services to ensure, to the maximum feasible
29 extent, the reasonable and timely development of effective
30 competition in all telecommunications service markets for the
31 foreseeable future.
32 (Source: P.A. 84-1063.)
33 (220 ILCS 5/13-103) (from Ch. 111 2/3, par. 13-103)
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1 (This Section is scheduled to be repealed July 1, 1999.)
2 Sec. 13-103. Policy. Consistent with its findings, the
3 General Assembly declares that it is the policy of the State
4 of Illinois that:
5 (a) telecommunications services should be available to
6 all Illinois citizens at just, reasonable, and affordable
7 rates and that such services should be provided as widely and
8 economically as possible in sufficient variety, quality,
9 quantity and reliability to satisfy the public interest;
10 (b) when consistent with the protection of consumers of
11 telecommunications services and the furtherance of other
12 public interest goals, competition in all telecommunications
13 service markets should be pursued permitted to function as a
14 substitute for certain aspects of regulation in determining
15 the variety, quality and price of telecommunications services
16 and that the economic burdens of regulation should be reduced
17 to the extent possible consistent with the furtherance of
18 market competition and protection of the public interest;
19 (c) all necessary and appropriate modifications to State
20 regulation of telecommunications carriers and services should
21 be implemented without unnecessary disruption to the
22 telecommunications infrastructure system or to consumers of
23 telecommunications services and that it is necessary and
24 appropriate to establish rules to encourage and ensure a
25 reasonable period of time to permit preparation for orderly
26 transitions in the development provision of markets for all
27 telecommunications services;
28 (d) the consumers of telecommunications services and
29 facilities provided by persons or companies subject to
30 regulation pursuant to this Act and Article should be
31 required to pay only reasonable and non-discriminatory rates
32 or charges and that in no case should rates or charges for
33 non-competitive telecommunications services include any
34 portion of the cost of providing competitive
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1 telecommunications services, as defined in Section 13-209, or
2 the cost of any nonregulated activities;
3 (e) the regulatory policies and procedures provided in
4 this Article are established in recognition of the changing
5 nature of the telecommunications industry and therefore
6 should be subject to systematic legislative review to ensure
7 that the public benefits intended to result from such
8 policies and procedures are fully realized; and
9 (f) development of and prudent investment in advanced
10 telecommunications services and networks that foster economic
11 development of the State should be encouraged through the
12 implementation and enforcement of policies that promote
13 effective and sustained competition in all telecommunications
14 service markets.
15 (Source: P.A. 87-856.)
16 Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon
17 becoming law.".