Bill Amendment: IL HB0632 | 2021-2022 | 102nd General Assembly

NOTE: For additional amemendments please see the Bill Drafting List

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Bill Title: REGULATION-TECH

Status: 2021-04-09 - Added Co-Sponsor Rep. Deb Conroy [HB0632 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2021-HB0632-House_Amendment_001.html

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Rep. Kambium Buckner

Filed: 3/9/2021

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AMENDMENT TO HOUSE BILL 632
AMENDMENT NO. ______. Amend House Bill 632 by replacing
everything after the enacting clause with the following:
"Section 1. Short title. This Act may be cited as the Water
Shutoff Restoration Act.
Section 5. Purpose. The purpose of this Act is to further
the interest of the State of Illinois in the proper management
of a significant public health issue by ensuring nonpayment
alone is not an appropriate justification for terminating
water services essential for basic hygiene during a pandemic.
The health and safety of Illinois residents are otherwise at
risk.
Section 10. Definitions. As used in this Act:
"Occupied residence" means a house or other type of
shelter that is used or intended to be used for human occupancy

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and has been occupied by humans for more than a total of 6
months in the last 2 years at that location.
"Public water supply authority" means an entity that
provides water for human consumption through pipes or other
constructed conveyances to at least 15 service connections or
serves an average of at least 25 people for at least 60 days
per year within the State of Illinois.
Section 15. Requirements. Public water supply authorities
must use their best efforts to restore full water service to
occupied residences that are without water service due to
nonpayment unless those occupied residences have improper
cross-connections that would risk public safety. For occupied
residences with improper cross-connections that would risk
public safety, public water supply authorities must use their
best efforts to rectify the cross-connection and restore full
water service to those occupied residences.
Section 20. Report. Public water supply authorities must
identify occupied residences without full water service within
their service areas and report their findings to the Illinois
Commerce Commission within 8 weeks after the effective date of
this Act and every month thereafter. These reports must detail
what efforts have been made to provide full water service to
occupied residences that still do not have full water service.

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Section 25. Intent of Act. This Act is not intended to
relieve residents of their obligation to pay public water
supply authorities, but to prevent public water authorities
from using disconnection as a course of action for nonpayment.
Section 30. Repeal. This Act is repealed on January 1,
2023.
Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon
becoming law.".