Full Text of HB2527 96th General Assembly
HB2527 96TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
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96TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2009 and 2010 HB2527
Introduced 2/20/2009, by Rep. Thomas Holbrook SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED: |
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Amends the Alternative Gas Supplier Law in the Public Utilities Act. Provides that "single billing" means the combined billing of the services provided by both a natural gas utility and an alternative gas supplier to any customer who has enrolled in a customer choice program.
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A BILL FOR
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| AN ACT concerning utilities.
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| Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
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| represented in the General Assembly:
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| Section 5. The Public Utilities Act is amended by changing | 5 |
| Section 19-105 as follows:
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| (220 ILCS 5/19-105)
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| Sec. 19-105. Definitions. For the purposes of this Article, | 8 |
| the following
terms shall be defined as set forth in this | 9 |
| Section.
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| "Alternative gas supplier" means every person, | 11 |
| cooperative, corporation,
municipal corporation, company, | 12 |
| association, joint stock company or
association, firm,
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| partnership, individual, or other entity, their lessees, | 14 |
| trustees, or receivers
appointed by
any court whatsoever, that | 15 |
| offers gas for sale, lease, or in exchange for other
value
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| received to one or more customers, or that engages in the | 17 |
| furnishing of gas to
one or
more customers, and shall include | 18 |
| affiliated interests of a gas utility,
resellers,
aggregators | 19 |
| and marketers, but shall not include (i) gas utilities (or any
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| agent of the gas
utility to the extent the gas utility provides | 21 |
| tariffed services to customers
through an
agent); (ii) public | 22 |
| utilities that are owned and operated by any political
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| subdivision, public institution of higher education or |
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| municipal corporation
of this State, or public utilities that | 2 |
| are owned by a political
subdivision, public institution of | 3 |
| higher education, or municipal corporation
and operated by any | 4 |
| of its lessees or operating agents; (iii)
natural gas | 5 |
| cooperatives that are not-for-profit corporations operated for
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| the purpose of administering, on a cooperative basis, the
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| furnishing of natural gas for the benefit of their members who
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| are
consumers of natural gas; and (iv) the ownership or | 9 |
| operation
of a facility that sells compressed natural gas at | 10 |
| retail to the public for use
only as a motor vehicle fuel and | 11 |
| the selling of compressed natural gas at
retail to the public | 12 |
| for use only as a motor vehicle fuel.
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| "Gas utility" means a public utility, as defined in Section | 14 |
| 3-105 of this
Act,
that
has a franchise, license, permit, or | 15 |
| right to furnish or sell gas
or transportation services to
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| customers within a service area.
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| "Residential customer" means a customer who receives gas | 18 |
| utility service for
household purposes distributed to a | 19 |
| dwelling of 2 or fewer units which is
billed under
a | 20 |
| residential rate or gas utility service for household purposes | 21 |
| distributed to
a dwelling
unit or units which is billed under a | 22 |
| residential rate and is registered by a
separate meter
for each | 23 |
| dwelling unit.
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| "Service area" means (i) the geographic area within which a | 25 |
| gas utility was
lawfully entitled to provide gas to customers | 26 |
| as of the effective date
of this
amendatory
Act of the 92nd |
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| General Assembly and includes (ii) the location of any
customer | 2 |
| to
which the gas utility was lawfully providing gas utility | 3 |
| services on such
effective date.
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| "Single billing" means the combined billing of the services | 5 |
| provided by both a natural gas utility and an alternative gas | 6 |
| supplier to any customer who has enrolled in a customer choice | 7 |
| program. | 8 |
| "Small commercial customer" means a nonresidential retail | 9 |
| customer of
a
natural gas utility
who is identified by the | 10 |
| alternative gas supplier, prior
to becoming a customer of the | 11 |
| alternative gas supplier, as
consuming 5,000 or fewer therms of | 12 |
| natural gas
during the previous year; provided that any | 13 |
| alternative gas
supplier may remove the customer from | 14 |
| designation as a "small
commercial customer" if the customer | 15 |
| consumes more than 5,000 therms
of natural gas in any calendar | 16 |
| year after becoming a customer of the
alternative gas supplier.
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| "Tariffed service" means a service provided to customers by | 18 |
| a gas
utility as
defined by its rates on file with the | 19 |
| Commission pursuant to the provisions of
Article IX
of this | 20 |
| Act.
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| "Transportation services" means those services provided by | 22 |
| the gas utility
that
are necessary in order for the storage, | 23 |
| transmission and distribution systems
to
function so that
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| customers located in the gas utility's service area can receive | 25 |
| gas from
suppliers other
than the gas utility and shall | 26 |
| include, without limitation, standard metering
and billing
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| (Source: P.A. 94-738, eff. 5-4-06.)
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