Bill Text: IL HB0773 | 2025-2026 | 104th General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Amends the Public Utilities Act. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the short title and applicability of the Electric Service Customer Choice and Rate Relief Law of 1997.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2025-01-09 - Referred to Rules Committee [HB0773 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2025-HB0773-Introduced.html

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104TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2025 and 2026 HB0773 Introduced , by Rep. Emanuel "Chris" Welch SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
220 ILCS 5/16-101
Amends the Public Utilities Act. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the short title and applicability of the Electric Service Customer Choice and Rate Relief Law of 1997.
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A BILL FOR
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AN ACT concerning regulation.
Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
represented in the General Assembly:
Section 5. The Public Utilities Act is amended by changing
Section 16-101 as follows:
(220 ILCS 5/16-101)
Sec. 16-101. Short title and applicability.
(a) This Article may be cited as the the Electric Service
Customer Choice and Rate Relief Law of 1997 and shall apply to
electric utilities and alternative retail electric suppliers
as defined in this Article. Except to the extent modified or
supplemented by the provisions of this Article, or where the
context clearly renders such provisions inapplicable, the
other Articles of the Public Utilities Act pertaining to
public utilities, public utility rates and services and the
regulation thereof, are fully and equally applicable to the
tariffed services electric utilities provide.
(b) The provisions of subsections (a) through (h) of
Section 16-111 of this Act shall not be applicable to any
electric utility which elects to file biennial rate
proceedings before the Commission in the years 1998, 2000 and
2002. An electric utility electing this option shall do so by
filing a notice of such election with the Commission within 60

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days after the effective date of this amendatory Act of 1997,
or its right to make such election shall be irrevocably
waived. An electric utility electing the option specified in
this paragraph shall file its rate proceeding with the
Commission no later than August 1 of the years 1998, 2000, and
2002. The electric utility's filing shall comply with all
requirements of 83 Illinois Administrative Code Parts 255 and
285 as though the electric utility were filing for an increase
in its rates, without regard to whether such filing would
produce an increase, a decrease or no change in the electric
utility's rates and the Commission shall review the electric
utility's filing and shall issue its order in accordance with
the provisions of Section 9-201 of this Act.
(Source: P.A. 90-561, eff. 12-16-97.)