Bill Status of HB5021  103rd General Assembly

Short Description:  UTIL-BOARD ELECT PLANNING

House Sponsors
Rep. Janet Yang Rohr - Maura Hirschauer - Anne Stava-Murray - Robyn Gabel and Joyce Mason

Last Action
DateChamber Action
  1/7/2025HouseSession Sine Die

Statutes Amended In Order of Appearance
New Act
5 ILCS 120/2from Ch. 102, par. 42
65 ILCS 5/11-119.1-4from Ch. 24, par. 11-119.1-4
65 ILCS 5/11-119.1-5.5 new
65 ILCS 5/11-119.1-10from Ch. 24, par. 11-119.1-10
220 ILCS 5/16-107.5
220 ILCS 5/17-500
735 ILCS 30/5-5-5


Synopsis As Introduced
Creates the Municipal and Cooperative Electric Utility Planning and Transparency Act. Sets forth legislative findings and objectives. Provides that beginning on November 1, 2024, and every 3 years thereafter on November 1, all electric cooperatives with members in the State, municipal power agencies, and municipalities shall file with the Illinois Power Agency an integrated resource plan. Includes provisions regarding the purposes and available resources for the integrated resource plan and rulemaking powers of the Agency. Requires the Agency to maintain a list of qualified experts or expert consulting firms for the purpose of developing integrated resource plans. Sets forth meeting requirements for an electric cooperative and publishing and posting requirements for specific information related to an electric cooperative. Amends the Open Meetings Act. Provides that a public body may hold closed meetings to consider the operation by a municipality of a municipal utility or the operation of a municipal power agency or municipal natural gas agency when the discussion involves certain topics. Amends the Illinois Municipal Code. Allows any additional municipality which operates an electric utility system to join a municipal power agency consistent with the bylaws of the municipal power agency, and upon payment of any termination obligations. Outlines a number of requirements for a municipal power agency. Makes other changes. Amends the Public Utilities Act. In a provision regarding net electricity metering, defines "electricity provider" and "electric utility". Makes other changes. Amends the Eminent Domain Act. Provides that for all acquisitions where the property, or any right or interest in property, is to be used for utility purposes, and where the condemning authority is an entity required to submit an integrated resource plan under the Municipal and Cooperative Electric Utility Planning and Transparency Act, the rebuttable presumption that such acquisition of that property is primarily for the benefit, use, or enjoyment of the public and necessary for a public purpose shall only apply if the most recent integrated resource plan filed by the condemning authority identified the facility or articulated a need for a facility of similar capacity and type to the facility for which the property or right or interest is sought. Effective immediately.

Actions 
DateChamber Action
  2/7/2024HouseFiled with the Clerk by Rep. Janet Yang Rohr
  2/8/2024HouseFirst Reading
  2/8/2024HouseReferred to Rules Committee
  2/20/2024HouseAdded Chief Co-Sponsor Rep. Maura Hirschauer
  2/20/2024HouseAdded Chief Co-Sponsor Rep. Anne Stava-Murray
  2/21/2024HouseAdded Chief Co-Sponsor Rep. Robyn Gabel
  2/28/2024HouseAssigned to Public Utilities Committee
  3/6/2024HouseTo Utilities Subcommittee
  3/27/2024HouseAdded Co-Sponsor Rep. Joyce Mason
  4/5/2024HouseRule 19(a) / Re-referred to Rules Committee
  1/7/2025HouseSession Sine Die