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1 AMENDMENT TO SENATE BILL 1265
2 AMENDMENT NO. . Amend Senate Bill 1265, AS AMENDED,
3 by inserting immediately after the end of Section 15 the
4 following:
5 "Section 20. The Public Utilities Act is amended by
6 changing Section 17-300 as follows:
7 (220 ILCS 5/17-300)
8 Sec. 17-300. Election to be an alternative retail
9 electric supplier.
10 (a) An electric cooperative or municipal system may, by
11 appropriate action, and at the sole discretion of the
12 governing body of each, make an election to become an
13 alternative retail electric supplier. A generation and
14 transmission electric cooperative may not, as an alternative
15 retail electric supplier, serve any present or future retail
16 customers of a distribution electric cooperative not a member
17 of that generation and transmission electric cooperative
18 unless at least 30% of the total number of meters of the
19 generation and transmission electric cooperative's
20 member-cooperatives are eligible to obtain electric power and
21 energy from an alternative retail electric supplier other
22 than the generation and transmission electric cooperative or
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1 an electric utility due to member-cooperative elections
2 pursuant to either Section 17-200 or 17-300.
3 (b) Commission authority over an electric cooperative or
4 municipal system electing to be an alternative retail
5 electric supplier. An electric cooperative or municipal
6 system electing to be an alternative retail electric supplier
7 shall provide those services in accordance with Sections
8 16-115A and 16-115B of this Act, to the extent that these
9 Sections have application to the services being offered by
10 the electric cooperative or municipal system as an
11 alternative retail electric supplier. In no case shall these
12 provisions apply to the existing or future customers taking
13 delivery services from an electric cooperative or municipal
14 system pursuant to their respective authority under the
15 Electric Supplier Act or the Illinois Municipal Code.
16 (c) Notification of election to be an alternative retail
17 electric supplier. Upon filing notice of intent by an
18 electric cooperative or a municipal system to become an
19 alternative retail electric supplier, the Commission shall
20 issue within 45 days a certificate of service authority for
21 the entire State or for a specified geographic area of the
22 State, as specified in the notice. Issuance of a certificate
23 of service authority shall constitute compliance with Section
24 16-115 of this Act.
25 (d) Delivery services provided by electric cooperatives
26 or municipal systems. Municipal systems or electric
27 cooperatives making an election under this Section shall be
28 required to provide delivery services on their respective
29 systems to the electric utility or utilities in whose service
30 area or areas the proposed service will be offered. Such
31 required delivery services to be provided by the electric
32 cooperatives and municipal systems shall be reasonably
33 comparable to the delivery services provided to the electric
34 cooperative's and municipal system's own customers.
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1 (e) Exclusive authority over distribution facilities.
2 Provided that, and subject to their authority to serve
3 customers pursuant to the Electric Supplier Act with respect
4 to electric cooperatives and pursuant to the Illinois
5 Municipal Code with respect to municipal systems, each shall
6 continue to provide the exclusive distribution facilities for
7 any existing and future customers that the electric
8 cooperative or municipal system is now or in the future
9 otherwise entitled to serve, and which customers are now or
10 in the future receiving service provided by an alternative
11 retail electric supplier.
12 (Source: P.A. 90-561, eff. 12-16-97.)".
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