Full Text of HB3482 101st General Assembly
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| 1 | | AN ACT concerning State government.
| 2 | | Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
| 3 | | represented in the General Assembly:
| 4 | | Section 5. The Lake Michigan Wind Energy Act is amended by | 5 | | changing Section 20 as follows: | 6 | | (20 ILCS 896/20)
| 7 | | Sec. 20. Offshore Wind Energy Economic Development Policy | 8 | | Task Force. | 9 | | (a) The Governor shall convene an Offshore Wind Energy | 10 | | Economic Development Policy Task Force, to be chaired by the | 11 | | Director of Commerce and Economic Opportunity, or his or her | 12 | | designee, to analyze and evaluate policy and economic options | 13 | | to facilitate the development of offshore wind energy, and to | 14 | | propose an appropriate Illinois mechanism for purchasing and | 15 | | selling power from possible offshore wind energy projects. The | 16 | | Task Force shall examine mechanisms used in other states and | 17 | | jurisdictions, including, without limitation, feed-in tariffs, | 18 | | renewable energy certificates, renewable energy certificate | 19 | | carve-outs, power purchase agreements, and pilot projects. The | 20 | | Task Force shall report its findings and recommendations to the | 21 | | Governor and General Assembly within 12 months of convening by | 22 | | December 31, 2013 .
| 23 | | (b) The Director of the Illinois Power Agency (or his or |
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| 1 | | her designee), the Executive Director of the Illinois Commerce | 2 | | Commission (or his or her designee), the Director of Natural | 3 | | Resources (or his or her designee), and the Attorney General | 4 | | (or his or her designee) shall serve as ex officio members of | 5 | | the Task Force.
| 6 | | (c) The Governor shall appoint within 90 days of the | 7 | | effective date of this amendatory Act of the 101st General | 8 | | Assembly, the following public members to serve on the Task | 9 | | Force:
| 10 | | (1) one individual from an institution of higher | 11 | | education in Illinois representing the discipline of | 12 | | economics with experience in the study of renewable energy;
| 13 | | (2) one individual representing an energy industry | 14 | | with experience in renewable energy markets;
| 15 | | (3) one individual representing a Statewide consumer | 16 | | or electric ratepayer organization;
| 17 | | (4) one individual representing the offshore wind | 18 | | energy industry;
| 19 | | (5) one individual representing the wind energy supply | 20 | | chain industry;
| 21 | | (6) one individual representing an Illinois electrical | 22 | | cooperative, municipal electrical utility, or association | 23 | | of such cooperatives or utilities;
| 24 | | (7) one individual representing an Illinois industrial | 25 | | union involved in the construction, maintenance, or | 26 | | transportation of electrical generation, distribution, or |
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| 1 | | transmission equipment or components;
| 2 | | (8) one individual representing an Illinois commercial | 3 | | or industrial electrical consumer;
| 4 | | (9) one individual representing an Illinois public | 5 | | education electrical consumer;
| 6 | | (10) one individual representing an independent | 7 | | transmission company;
| 8 | | (11) one individual from the Illinois legal community | 9 | | with experience in contracts, utility law, municipal law, | 10 | | and constitutional law;
| 11 | | (12) one individual representing a Great Lakes | 12 | | regional organization with experience assessing or | 13 | | studying wind energy;
| 14 | | (13) one individual representing a Statewide | 15 | | environmental organization; | 16 | | (14) one resident of the State representing an | 17 | | organization advocating for persons of low or limited | 18 | | incomes;
| 19 | | (15) one individual representing Argonne National | 20 | | Laboratory; and
| 21 | | (16) one individual representing a local community | 22 | | that has aggregated the purchase of electricity.
| 23 | | (d) The Governor may appoint additional public members to | 24 | | the Task Force. | 25 | | (e) The Speaker of the House of Representatives, Minority | 26 | | Leader of the House of Representatives,
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| 1 | | Minority Leader of the Senate shall each appoint one member of | 2 | | the General Assembly to serve on the Task Force.
| 3 | | (f) Members of the Task Force shall serve without | 4 | | compensation.
| 5 | | (Source: P.A. 98-447, eff. 8-16-13; 98-756, eff. 7-16-14.)
| 6 | | Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon | 7 | | becoming law.
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