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 1        AN ACT concerning public utilities.

 2        Be it enacted by the People of  the  State  of  Illinois,
 3    represented in the General Assembly:

 4        Section 5.  The Public Utilities Act is amended by adding
 5    Sections 8-501.5, 8-505.5, and 9-245 as follows:

 6        (220 ILCS 5/8-501.5 new)
 7        Sec.  8-501.5.  Employees  and  independent  contractors;
 8    background checks.
 9        (a)  Before  hiring an employee or independent contractor
10    to  perform  work   involving   facilities   used   for   the
11    distribution  of  natural  gas to customers, a public utility
12    shall, in  accordance  with  Commission  rules,  require  the
13    proposed  employee  or  independent  contractor to complete a
14    certificate listing the proposed employee's  or  contractor's
15    violations of pertinent safety or environmental laws.
16        (b)  The  Commission  shall  adopt rules establishing the
17    requirements for the certificates referred to  in  subsection
18    (a).

19        (220 ILCS 5/8-505.5 new)
20        Sec.   8-505.5.  Work   on   natural   gas  regulator  or
21    manometer.  The Commission shall require, under such rules as
22    it may prescribe, a public utility that is performing work on
23    a natural gas regulator or manometer containing mercury  that
24    is  used to provide natural gas service to test the immediate
25    area around the regulator or manometer for mercury before and
26    after work is performed using testing instruments of the type
27    approved by the Commission.  Copies of the test  results,  if
28    requested,  shall be provided to the occupant or owner of the
29    property upon which the regulator or manometer is located  at
30    the  time  the  work is performed.  The test results shall be
 
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 1    available for inspection by the Commission.

 2        (220 ILCS 5/9-245 new)
 3        Sec. 9-245.  Rates; environmental fines and  remediation.
 4    In  determining  the  rates  for  a public utility engaged in
 5    providing natural gas service, the Commission may not include
 6    any  expenditure  for  fines  or  remediation   and   related
 7    activities  incurred as a result of mercury spills associated
 8    with  gas  pressure  regulators,  manometers,  or  any  other
 9    devices containing mercury  in  the  utility's  system.   Any
10    related  insurance  or  third  party  recoveries must also be
11    excluded for ratemaking purposes.

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

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