Illinois General Assembly - Bill Status for SB0018

Replaces everything after the enacting clause. Creates the Energy Transition Act. Includes provisions regarding: Regional Administrators; the Clean Jobs Workforce Network Program; the Clean Jobs Curriculum; the Energy Transition Barrier Reduction Program; the Energy Transition Navigators; the Illinois Climate Works Preapprenticeship Program; the Clean Energy Contractor Incubator Program; the Returning Residents Clean Jobs Training Program; the Clean Energy Primes Contractor Accelerator Program; the Jobs and Environmental Justice Grant Program; and the Energy Workforce Advisory Council. Makes conforming changes in the Illinois Administrative Procedure Act and the Illinois Finance Authority Act. Creates the Energy Community Reinvestment Act. Includes provisions regarding: the Energy Transition Workforce Commission; the Energy Transition Community Grants; the Displaced Energy Workers Bill of Rights; the Dislocated Energy Worker Dependent Transition Scholarship; consideration of energy worker employment; an Energy Community Investment Report; and administrative review. Creates the Community, Energy, Climate, and Jobs Planning Act. Includes provisions regarding: the creation of Community Energy, Climate, and Jobs Plans; the Community Energy, Climate, and Jobs Planning process; and joint Community Energy, Climate, and Jobs Plans. Creates the Clean Energy Jobs and Justice Fund Act. Includes provisions regarding: the Clean Energy Jobs and Justice Fund; the board of directors; powers and duties; primary responsibilities in early program development; executive director and fund management; and dissolution of the Fund. Makes additional and conforming changes in: the Illinois Administrative Procedure Act; the Illinois Governmental Ethics Act; the Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity Law of the Civil Administrative Code of Illinois; the Electric Vehicle Act; the Illinois Enterprise Zone Act; the Department of Labor Law of the Civil Administrative Code of Illinois; the Energy Efficient Building Act; the Illinois Power Agency Act; the State Finance Act; the Illinois Procurement Code; the Business Enterprise for Minorities, Women, and Persons with Disabilities Act; the State Property Control Act; the Gas Use Tax Law; the Property Tax Code; the Gas Revenue Tax Act; the Electricity Excise Tax Law; the School Code; the University of Illinois Act; the Public Utilities Act; the Environmental Protection Act; and the Illinois Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act. Makes other changes. Effective immediately.

In the Energy Transition Act, makes changes to provisions concerning the Clean Jobs Workforce Network Program, the Energy Transition Barrier Reduction Program, Energy Transition Navigators, the Illinois Climate Works Preapprenticeship Program, and the Jobs and Environmental Justice Grant Program. In the Energy Community Reinvestment Act, makes changes to provisions concerning the Energy Transition Workforce Commission, Energy Transition Community Grants, and the Displaced Energy Workers Bill of Rights. Repeals the Energy Transition Act, the Energy Community Reinvestment Act, the Community Energy, Climate, and Jobs Planning Act, and the Illinois Clean Energy Jobs and Justice Fund Act 24 (rather than 14) years after the effective date of the Act. Makes additional changes in the Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity Law of the Civil Administrative Code of Illinois. In the Electric Vehicle Act, makes changes to provisions concerning rulemaking and resources, beneficial electrification, and the charging rebate program. In the Energy Efficient Building Act, makes changes to provisions concerning input from interested parties and the Illinois Stretch Energy Code. In the Illinois Power Agency Act, makes changes to provisions concerning legislative declarations and findings, the Illinois Power Agency Renewable Energy Resources Fund and the Illinois Solar for All Program, agency officials, the Planning and Procurement Bureau, and aggregation of electrical load by municipalities, townships, and counties. Makes additional changes in the Illinois Procurement Code. Deletes changes to the Gas Use Tax Law and the Gas Revenue Tax Act. In the Public Utilities Act, makes changes in provisions concerning electric and gas public utilities ethical conduct and transparency, energy efficiency and demand-response measures, utility-scale pilot projects, distributed generation rebate, recovery of costs associated with the provision of delivery and other services, accelerated repayment of excess deferred income tax, the Energy Transition Assistance Fund, the Equitable Energy Upgrade Program, and the Energy Storage Program. Makes additional changes in the Environmental Protection Act.

In the Illinois Power Agency Act, in a provision regarding the procurement of renewable energy credits from new renewable energy facilities installed at or adjacent to the sites of electric generating facilities that burn or burned coal as their primary fuel source, provides that the first procurement event shall be conducted no later than January 30, 2022, unless the Agency elects to delay it, until no later than May 1, 2022 (rather than March 31, 2022), due to its overall volume of work. In the Property Tax Code, provides that spent fuel pools and dry cask storage systems in which nuclear fuel is stored and is pending further or final disposal from a nuclear power plant that was decommissioned before January 1, 2021 shall be considered real property and be assessable. In the Public Utilities Act, provides that the rules adopted by the Illinois Commerce Commission to carry out the provisions regarding the Multi-Year Integrated Grid Plan may (rather than shall) be effective no later than 90 days after the effective date of the amendatory Act. In the Environmental Protection Act: Deletes language providing that all public GHG-emitting units that use coal as a fuel source shall reduce carbon dioxide emissions by 105% of the unit's 2021 annual carbon emission amount, that at least 95% of the carbon dioxide emission reductions shall be attained through carbon capture and sequestration or unit retirement by 2045, that the remainder of the total carbon dioxide emission reductions required by 2045 and thereafter shall be attained through direct air carbon capture or any other available technology proven to directly remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, and that all EGUs and large greenhouse gas-emitting units that use coal as a fuel and are public GHG-emitting units that are greater than 700 megawatts of nameplate capacity shall follow specified requirements. Provides instead that all EGUs and large greenhouse gas-emitting units that use coal as a fuel and are public GHG-emitting units shall permanently reduce carbon dioxide and copollutant emissions to zero no later than December 31, 2045. Makes other changes to the Public Utilities Act and the Environmental Protection Act. Makes additional changes to the Energy Transition Act and the Illinois Procurement Code.

Date	Chamber	Action
1/10/2023	Senate	Session Sine Die

Date	Chamber	Action
1/29/2021	Senate	Filed with Secretary by Sen. Don Harmon
1/29/2021	Senate	First Reading
1/29/2021	Senate	Referred to Assignments
3/9/2021	Senate	Assigned to Executive
3/17/2021	Senate	Do Pass Executive; 015-000-000
3/17/2021	Senate	Placed on Calendar Order of 2nd Reading March 23, 2021
4/15/2021	Senate	Second Reading
4/15/2021	Senate	Placed on Calendar Order of 3rd Reading April 20, 2021
4/23/2021	Senate	Rule 2-10 Third Reading Deadline Established As April 30, 2021
4/30/2021	Senate	Rule 2-10 Third Reading Deadline Established As May 21, 2021
5/21/2021	Senate	Rule 2-10 Third Reading Deadline Established As May 31, 2021
5/31/2021	Senate	Rule 3-9(a) / Re-referred to Assignments
8/31/2021	Senate	Rule 2-10 Third Reading Deadline Established As December 1, 2021
8/31/2021	Senate	Approved for Consideration Assignments
8/31/2021	Senate	Placed on Calendar Order of 3rd Reading
8/31/2021	Senate	Senate Floor Amendment No. 1 Filed with Secretary by Sen. Michael E. Hastings
8/31/2021	Senate	Senate Floor Amendment No. 1 Referred to Assignments
8/31/2021	Senate	Senate Floor Amendment No. 2 Filed with Secretary by Sen. Michael E. Hastings
8/31/2021	Senate	Senate Floor Amendment No. 2 Referred to Assignments
8/31/2021	Senate	Senate Floor Amendment No. 3 Filed with Secretary by Sen. Michael E. Hastings
8/31/2021	Senate	Senate Floor Amendment No. 3 Referred to Assignments
8/31/2021	Senate	Senate Floor Amendment No. 1 Be Approved for Consideration Assignments
8/31/2021	Senate	Senate Floor Amendment No. 2 Be Approved for Consideration Assignments
8/31/2021	Senate	Senate Floor Amendment No. 3 Be Approved for Consideration Assignments
8/31/2021	Senate	Recalled to Second Reading
8/31/2021	Senate	Senate Floor Amendment No. 1 Adopted; Hastings
8/31/2021	Senate	Senate Floor Amendment No. 2 Adopted; Hastings
8/31/2021	Senate	Senate Floor Amendment No. 3 Adopted; Hastings
8/31/2021	Senate	Placed on Calendar Order of 3rd Reading
9/1/2021	Senate	Added as Chief Co-Sponsor Sen. Patrick J. Joyce
9/1/2021	Senate	3/5 Vote Required
9/1/2021	Senate	Third Reading - Passed; 039-016-002
9/2/2021	House	Arrived in House
9/2/2021	House	Chief House Sponsor Rep. Emanuel Chris Welch
9/3/2021	House	First Reading
9/3/2021	House	Referred to Rules Committee
9/3/2021	House	Assigned to Executive Committee
9/3/2021	Senate	Added as Chief Co-Sponsor Sen. Bill Cunningham
9/7/2021	Senate	Added as Chief Co-Sponsor Sen. Michael E. Hastings
9/9/2021	House	House Committee Amendment No. 1 Filed with Clerk by Rep. Charles Meier
9/9/2021	House	House Committee Amendment No. 1 Referred to Rules Committee
9/10/2021	House	Rule 19(a) / Re-referred to Rules Committee
1/10/2023	Senate	Session Sine Die

	Deletes reference to:
	20 ILCS 1115/1	from Ch. 96 1/2, par. 7601