HB1453ham001 98TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY

Rep. Kelly Burke

Filed: 2/21/2013

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AMENDMENT TO HOUSE BILL 1453

AMENDMENT NO. ______. Amend House Bill 1453 by replacing everything after the enacting clause with the following:

"Section 5. The Public Utilities Act is amended by changing Section 19-112 as follows:

(220 ILCS 5/19-112)

Sec. 19-112. Managerial resources.

(a) An alternative gas supplier must maintain sufficient managerial resources and abilities to provide the service for which it has a certificate of service authority. In determining the level of managerial resources and abilities that the alternative gas supplier must demonstrate, the Commission shall consider, in addition to the requirements in Section 19-110(e)(1), the following:

(1) complaints to the Commission by consumers regarding the alternative gas supplier, including those that reflect on the alternative gas supplier's ability to properly manage solicitation and authorization; and

(2) the alternative gas supplier's involvement in the Commission's consumer complaint process, including the resources the alternative gas supplier dedicates to the process and the alternative gas supplier's ability to manage the issues raised by complaints, and the resolutions of the complaints; and .

(3) the availability of the alternative gas supplier's customer services department to customers by either a toll-free phone number or the internet and the publication of the hours that the toll-free or internet access is available.

(b) The provisions of this Section shall apply only to alternative gas suppliers serving or seeking to serve residential or small commercial customers and only to the extent such alternative gas suppliers provide services to residential or small commercial customers, unless otherwise noted.

(Source: P.A. 95-1051, eff. 4-10-09; 96-1000, eff. 7-2-10.)

Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon becoming law.".