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90_HB0789
220 ILCS 5/7-102.5 new
Amends the Public Utilities Act. Prohibits gas and
electric public utilities from subsidizing nonutility
services with funds received under regulated rates.
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1 AN ACT to amend the Public Utilities Act by adding
2 Section 7-102.5.
3 Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
4 represented in the General Assembly:
5 Section 5. The Public Utilities Act is amended by adding
6 Section 7-102.5 as follows:
7 (220 ILCS 5/7-102.5 new)
8 Sec. 7-102.5. Subsidization of nonutility services
9 prohibited. A rate-regulated gas or electric public utility
10 may not directly or indirectly include any costs or expenses
11 attributable to providing nonutility service in regulated
12 rates or charges. A rate-regulated gas or electric public
13 utility or its affiliates may not use vehicles, service
14 tools, equipment, instruments, billing systems, customer
15 information or marketing programs, or employees for which
16 costs, salaries, or benefits are recoverable in the regulated
17 rates for electric service or gas service, or revenues
18 derived from the regulated rates, to install, service, or
19 repair residential, commercial, or industrial gas or electric
20 heating, ventilating, or air conditioning systems, or
21 interior load side lighting systems and fixtures or sell at
22 retail heating, ventilating, air conditioning, or interior
23 lighting equipment.
24 For the purposes of this Section "nonutility service"
25 includes, but is not limited to, the sale, lease,
26 installation, or other conveyance of industrial, commercial,
27 or residential gas or electric appliances, load side
28 electrical systems, including fixtures and components, steel
29 fabrication, and heating, ventilating, or air conditioning
30 systems and component parts for the service, repair,
31 installation, or maintenance of any of these items. For the
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1 purposes of this Section, "commercial" means a place of
2 business primarily used for the storage or sale, at wholesale
3 or retail, of goods, wares, services, or merchandise. For
4 the purposes of this Section, "industrial" means a place of
5 business primarily used for the manufacture, assembly, or
6 distribution of goods, wares, services, or merchandise.
7 Nothing in this Section shall be construed to prohibit a
8 regulated gas or electric public utility from using its
9 utility vehicles, service tools and instruments, and
10 employees to market utility systems, services, and equipment,
11 to light pilots, or to eliminate a customer emergency or
12 threat to public safety.