Illinois General Assembly - Bill Status for HB3312

Creates the Utility Data Access Act. Requires the Illinois Commerce Commission to enact the following procedures: (1) a utility shall retain all consumption data for a period of not less than 2 years; (2) a qualified utility shall retain monthly consumption data used for billing for a period of not less than 15 years; (3) a utility shall honor an account holder's request to transmit the account holder's covered usage data held by the utility to any entity designated by the account holder; (4) a qualified data recipient with respect to a qualified building or qualified property may request that a qualified utility provide aggregated usage data for the qualified building or qualified property; (5) a utility shall deliver requested data on a schedule set by the Commission; and (6) the account holder request process and utility delivery of requested data shall be convenient and secure. Establishes requirements for: the Commission's participation in a stakeholder process; the form and timeline in which covered usage data is provided to the data recipient; entry of data into the benchmarking tool; and the provision of covered usage data to recipients upon account holder authorization. Provides that, except in cases where the utility has not followed processes established by the Act or the utility is grossly negligent, the utility shall be held harmless for third-party misuse of data shared under the Act and no cause of action may be initiated against the utility for such subsequent misuse. Provides that prior to filing for cost recovery, a qualified utility must first demonstrate good faith efforts to secure federal, State, or other relevant funding options. Sets forth provisions regarding funding for the Commission to carry out its responsibilities under the Act and the Commission selecting and engaging outside consultants with experience in benchmarking and utility data access. States findings. Defines terms.

Replaces everything after the enacting clause. Reinserts the provisions of the introduced bill with the following changes. In provisions concerning utility data access, provides that the Illinois Commerce Commission shall enact procedures whereby a qualified utility shall retain, for a period of not less than 7 years, monthly consumption data that reflects consumption that occurred in or after 2022 and that was used for billing (rather than a qualified utility shall retain monthly consumption data used for billing for a period of not less than 15 years). Provides that a qualified utility shall retain, for a period of not less than 15 years, monthly consumption data that reflects consumption that occurred in or after 2028 and that was used for billing. Provides that the account holder request process and utility delivery of requested data shall be convenient and secure, and, at the Commission's direction, requests to the utility may be submitted exclusively through an online portal (rather than only the request process shall be convenient and secure). Provides that data recipients may request and receive timely revisions correcting erroneous utility data. Removes provisions concerning the stakeholder process. Provides that, for any covered usage data that a utility provides to a data recipient must be available to be requested online, except that a nonqualified utility may provide only paper request forms upon a showing of hardship (rather than the covered usage data must be available to be requested online and in printable paper form). Makes other changes.

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