Bill Text: IL SB0673 | 2013-2014 | 98th General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Amends the Public Utilities Act. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the Illinois Commerce Commission's Office of Retail Market Development's annual report regarding the development of competitive retail natural gas markets in Illinois.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Failed) 2015-01-13 - Session Sine Die [SB0673 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2013-SB0673-Introduced.html

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98TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2013 and 2014 SB0673 Introduced 1/24/2013, by Sen. John J. Cullerton SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
220 ILCS 5/19-130
Amends the Public Utilities Act. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the Illinois Commerce Commission's Office of Retail Market Development's annual report regarding the development of competitive retail natural gas markets in Illinois.
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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 19-130 as follows:
(220 ILCS 5/19-130)
Sec. 19-130. Commission study and report. The The
Commission's Office of Retail Market Development shall prepare
an annual report regarding the development of competitive
retail natural gas markets in Illinois. The report shall be
approved by the Commission and be filed by July 1 of each odd
year with the Joint Committee on Legislative Support Services
of the General Assembly and the Governor and shall be publicly
available. The report shall include, at a minimum, the
following information:
(1) an analysis of the status and development of the
retail natural gas market in the State of Illinois; and
(2) a discussion of any identified barriers to the
development of competitive retail natural gas markets in
Illinois and proposed solutions to overcome identified
barriers; and
(3) any other information the Commission considers
significant in assessing the development of gas markets in

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the State of Illinois.
To aid in preparation of its annual report, as well in its
assessment of barriers to the development of competitive retail
natural gas markets and proposed solutions to overcome those
barriers, the Commission's Office of Retail Market Development
shall gather input from all interested parties as well as from
other bureaus within the Commission.
(Source: P.A. 97-223, eff. 1-1-12.)