Full Text of SB0518 100th General Assembly
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| 1 | | AN ACT concerning finance.
| 2 | | Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, | 3 | | represented in the General Assembly:
| 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| 8 | | (Section scheduled to be repealed on December 31, 2020)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 | 17 | | distribution of natural
gas within
the State of Illinois shall, | 18 | | effective January 1, 1998, assess each of its
customer
accounts | 19 | | a monthly Renewable Energy Resources and Coal Technology
| 20 | | Development Assistance Charge. The delivering public utility, | 21 | | municipal
electric or
gas utility, or electric or gas | 22 | | cooperative for a self-assessing purchaser
remains
subject to | 23 | | the collection of the fee imposed by this Section. The monthly
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| 1 | | charge
shall be as follows:
| 2 | | (1) $0.05 per month on each account for residential
| 3 | | electric service as defined in Section 13 of the Energy
| 4 | | Assistance Act;
| 5 | | (2) $0.05 per month on each account for residential
gas | 6 | | service as defined in Section 13 of the
Energy Assistance | 7 | | Act;
| 8 | | (3) $0.50 per month on each account for
nonresidential | 9 | | electric service, as defined in Section 13
of the Energy | 10 | | Assistance Act, which had less than 10
megawatts of peak | 11 | | demand during the previous calendar
year;
| 12 | | (4) $0.50 per month on each account for
nonresidential | 13 | | gas service, as defined in Section 13 of
the Energy | 14 | | Assistance Act, which had distributed to it
less than | 15 | | 4,000,000
therms of gas during the previous calendar year;
| 16 | | (5) $37.50 per month on each account for
nonresidential | 17 | | electric service, as defined in Section 13
of the Energy | 18 | | Assistance Act, which had 10 megawatts
or greater of peak | 19 | | demand during the previous calendar
year; and
| 20 | | (6) $37.50 per month on each account for
nonresidential | 21 | | gas service, as defined in Section 13 of
the Energy | 22 | | Assistance Act, which had 4,000,000 or
more therms of gas | 23 | | distributed to it during the previous
calendar year.
| 24 | | (b) The Renewable Energy Resources and Coal Technology | 25 | | Development
Assistance
Charge assessed by electric and gas | 26 | | public utilities shall be considered a
charge
for public |
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| 1 | | utility service.
| 2 | | (c) Fifty percent of the moneys collected pursuant to
this | 3 | | Section shall be deposited in the Renewable Energy
Resources | 4 | | Trust Fund by the Department of Revenue. From those funds, | 5 | | $2,000,000 may be used annually by the Department to provide | 6 | | grants to the Illinois Green Economy Network for the purposes | 7 | | of funding education and training for renewable energy and | 8 | | energy efficiency technology and for the operation and services | 9 | | of the Illinois Green Economy Network. The remaining 50 percent
| 10 | | of the moneys
collected pursuant to this Section shall be | 11 | | deposited in the
Coal Technology Development Assistance Fund by | 12 | | the Department of Revenue
for the exclusive purposes of (1) | 13 | | capturing or sequestering carbon emissions produced by coal | 14 | | combustion; (2) supporting research on the capture and | 15 | | sequestration of carbon emissions produced by coal combustion; | 16 | | and (3) improving coal miner safety.
| 17 | | (d) By the 20th day of the month following the month in | 18 | | which the charges
imposed by this Section were collected, each | 19 | | utility
and alternative retail electric
supplier collecting | 20 | | charges
pursuant to this Section shall remit
to the Department | 21 | | of Revenue for deposit in the
Renewable Energy Resources Trust | 22 | | Fund and the Coal Technology Development
Assistance Fund all
| 23 | | moneys received as payment of the charge provided for in this
| 24 | | Section on a return prescribed and furnished by the Department | 25 | | of Revenue
showing such information as the Department of | 26 | | Revenue may reasonably require.
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| 1 | | (e) The charges imposed by this Section shall only apply
to | 2 | | customers of municipal electric or gas utilities and electric | 3 | | or gas
cooperatives if the municipal electric or gas utility or | 4 | | electric or
gas
cooperative makes an affirmative decision to | 5 | | impose the
charge.
If a municipal electric or gas utility or an | 6 | | electric or gas cooperative
makes an
affirmative decision to | 7 | | impose the charge provided by this Section, the
municipal
| 8 | | electric or gas utility or electric or gas cooperative shall | 9 | | inform the
Department of
Revenue in writing of such decision | 10 | | when it begins to impose the charge.
If a municipal electric or | 11 | | gas utility or electric or gas
cooperative does not assess this | 12 | | charge, its customers shall
not be eligible for the Renewable | 13 | | Energy Resources Program.
| 14 | | (f) The Department of Revenue may establish such rules as | 15 | | it deems
necessary to implement this Section.
| 16 | | (Source: P.A. 95-481, eff. 8-28-07 .)
| 17 | | Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon | 18 | | becoming law.
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