Full Text of SB0518 100th General Assembly
SB0518ham001 100TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY | Rep. Carol Sente Filed: 5/18/2017
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| 1 | | AMENDMENT TO SENATE BILL 518
| 2 | | AMENDMENT NO. ______. Amend Senate Bill 518 by replacing | 3 | | everything after the enacting clause with the following:
| 4 | | "Section 5. The Renewable Energy, Energy Efficiency, and | 5 | | Coal Resources
Development Law of 1997 is amended by changing | 6 | | Section 6-5 as follows:
| 7 | | (20 ILCS 687/6-5)
| 8 | | (Section scheduled to be repealed on December 31, 2020)
| 9 | | Sec. 6-5. Renewable Energy Resources and Coal Technology
| 10 | | Development Assistance Charge. | 11 | | (a) Notwithstanding the provisions of Section 16-111 of the | 12 | | Public
Utilities
Act but subject to subsection (e) of this | 13 | | Section,
each
public utility, electric cooperative, as defined | 14 | | in Section 3.4 of the Electric
Supplier
Act, and municipal | 15 | | utility, as referenced in Section 3-105 of the Public
Utilities | 16 | | Act,
that is engaged in the delivery of electricity or the |
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| 1 | | distribution of natural
gas within
the State of Illinois shall, | 2 | | effective January 1, 1998, assess each of its
customer
accounts | 3 | | a monthly Renewable Energy Resources and Coal Technology
| 4 | | Development Assistance Charge. The delivering public utility, | 5 | | municipal
electric or
gas utility, or electric or gas | 6 | | cooperative for a self-assessing purchaser
remains
subject to | 7 | | the collection of the fee imposed by this Section. The monthly
| 8 | | charge
shall be as follows:
| 9 | | (1) $0.05 per month on each account for residential
| 10 | | electric service as defined in Section 13 of the Energy
| 11 | | Assistance Act;
| 12 | | (2) $0.05 per month on each account for residential
gas | 13 | | service as defined in Section 13 of the
Energy Assistance | 14 | | Act;
| 15 | | (3) $0.50 per month on each account for
nonresidential | 16 | | electric service, as defined in Section 13
of the Energy | 17 | | Assistance Act, which had less than 10
megawatts of peak | 18 | | demand during the previous calendar
year;
| 19 | | (4) $0.50 per month on each account for
nonresidential | 20 | | gas service, as defined in Section 13 of
the Energy | 21 | | Assistance Act, which had distributed to it
less than | 22 | | 4,000,000
therms of gas during the previous calendar year;
| 23 | | (5) $37.50 per month on each account for
nonresidential | 24 | | electric service, as defined in Section 13
of the Energy | 25 | | Assistance Act, which had 10 megawatts
or greater of peak | 26 | | demand during the previous calendar
year; and
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| 1 | | (6) $37.50 per month on each account for
nonresidential | 2 | | gas service, as defined in Section 13 of
the Energy | 3 | | Assistance Act, which had 4,000,000 or
more therms of gas | 4 | | distributed to it during the previous
calendar year.
| 5 | | (b) The Renewable Energy Resources and Coal Technology | 6 | | Development
Assistance
Charge assessed by electric and gas | 7 | | public utilities shall be considered a
charge
for public | 8 | | utility service.
| 9 | | (c) Fifty percent of the moneys collected pursuant to
this | 10 | | Section shall be deposited in the Renewable Energy
Resources | 11 | | Trust Fund by the Department of Revenue. From those funds, | 12 | | $2,000,000 may be used annually by the Department to provide | 13 | | grants to the Illinois Green Economy Network for the purposes | 14 | | of funding a statewide network of renewable energy and energy | 15 | | efficiency technology job training and education programs, | 16 | | including contributions towards the attainment of the training | 17 | | and placement goals of the Illinois Solar for All Program under | 18 | | Section 1-56 of the Illinois Power Agency Act, as well as for | 19 | | programs and services to support the advancement of these | 20 | | industry sectors. The remaining 50 percent
of the moneys
| 21 | | collected pursuant to this Section shall be deposited in the
| 22 | | Coal Technology Development Assistance Fund by the Department | 23 | | of Revenue
for the exclusive purposes of (1) capturing or | 24 | | sequestering carbon emissions produced by coal combustion; (2) | 25 | | supporting research on the capture and sequestration of carbon | 26 | | emissions produced by coal combustion; and (3) improving coal |
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| 1 | | miner safety.
| 2 | | (d) By the 20th day of the month following the month in | 3 | | which the charges
imposed by this Section were collected, each | 4 | | utility
and alternative retail electric
supplier collecting | 5 | | charges
pursuant to this Section shall remit
to the Department | 6 | | of Revenue for deposit in the
Renewable Energy Resources Trust | 7 | | Fund and the Coal Technology Development
Assistance Fund all
| 8 | | moneys received as payment of the charge provided for in this
| 9 | | Section on a return prescribed and furnished by the Department | 10 | | of Revenue
showing such information as the Department of | 11 | | Revenue may reasonably require.
| 12 | | (e) The charges imposed by this Section shall only apply
to | 13 | | customers of municipal electric or gas utilities and electric | 14 | | or gas
cooperatives if the municipal electric or gas utility or | 15 | | electric or
gas
cooperative makes an affirmative decision to | 16 | | impose the
charge.
If a municipal electric or gas utility or an | 17 | | electric or gas cooperative
makes an
affirmative decision to | 18 | | impose the charge provided by this Section, the
municipal
| 19 | | electric or gas utility or electric or gas cooperative shall | 20 | | inform the
Department of
Revenue in writing of such decision | 21 | | when it begins to impose the charge.
If a municipal electric or | 22 | | gas utility or electric or gas
cooperative does not assess this | 23 | | charge, its customers shall
not be eligible for the Renewable | 24 | | Energy Resources Program.
| 25 | | (f) The Department of Revenue may establish such rules as | 26 | | it deems
necessary to implement this Section.
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| 1 | | (Source: P.A. 95-481, eff. 8-28-07 .)
| 2 | | Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon | 3 | | becoming law.".
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