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90_SB1265sam002

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 1                    AMENDMENT TO SENATE BILL 1265
 2        AMENDMENT NO.     .  Amend Senate Bill 1265, AS  AMENDED,
 3    by  inserting  immediately  after  the  end of Section 15 the
 4    following:
 5        "Section 20.  The Public  Utilities  Act  is  amended  by
 6    changing Section 17-300 as follows:
 7        (220 ILCS 5/17-300)
 8        Sec.  17-300.   Election  to  be  an  alternative  retail
 9    electric supplier.
10        (a)  An  electric cooperative or municipal system may, by
11    appropriate  action,  and  at  the  sole  discretion  of  the
12    governing body  of  each,  make  an  election  to  become  an
13    alternative   retail  electric  supplier.  A  generation  and
14    transmission electric cooperative may not, as an  alternative
15    retail  electric supplier, serve any present or future retail
16    customers of a distribution electric cooperative not a member
17    of that  generation  and  transmission  electric  cooperative
18    unless  at  least  30%  of  the total number of meters of the
19    generation   and    transmission    electric    cooperative's
20    member-cooperatives are eligible to obtain electric power and
21    energy  from  an  alternative  retail electric supplier other
22    than the generation and transmission electric cooperative  or
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 1    an  electric  utility  due  to  member-cooperative  elections
 2    pursuant to either Section 17-200 or 17-300.
 3        (b)  Commission authority over an electric cooperative or
 4    municipal   system  electing  to  be  an  alternative  retail
 5    electric supplier.   An  electric  cooperative  or  municipal
 6    system electing to be an alternative retail electric supplier
 7    shall  provide  those  services  in  accordance with Sections
 8    16-115A and 16-115B of this Act,  to the  extent  that  these
 9    Sections  have  application  to the services being offered by
10    the  electric  cooperative  or   municipal   system   as   an
11    alternative retail electric supplier.  In no case shall these
12    provisions  apply  to the existing or future customers taking
13    delivery services from an electric cooperative  or  municipal
14    system  pursuant  to  their  respective  authority  under the
15    Electric Supplier Act or the Illinois Municipal Code.
16        (c)  Notification of election to be an alternative retail
17    electric supplier.   Upon  filing  notice  of  intent  by  an
18    electric  cooperative  or  a  municipal  system  to become an
19    alternative retail electric supplier,  the  Commission  shall
20    issue  within  45 days a certificate of service authority for
21    the entire State or for a specified geographic  area  of  the
22    State, as specified in the notice.  Issuance of a certificate
23    of service authority shall constitute compliance with Section
24    16-115 of this Act.
25        (d)  Delivery  services provided by electric cooperatives
26    or  municipal  systems.   Municipal   systems   or   electric
27    cooperatives  making  an election under this Section shall be
28    required to provide delivery  services  on  their  respective
29    systems to the electric utility or utilities in whose service
30    area  or  areas  the  proposed service will be offered.  Such
31    required delivery services to be  provided  by  the  electric
32    cooperatives   and  municipal  systems  shall  be  reasonably
33    comparable to the delivery services provided to the  electric
34    cooperative's and municipal system's own customers.
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 1        (e)  Exclusive  authority  over  distribution facilities.
 2    Provided that,  and  subject  to  their  authority  to  serve
 3    customers  pursuant to the Electric Supplier Act with respect
 4    to  electric  cooperatives  and  pursuant  to  the   Illinois
 5    Municipal  Code with respect to municipal systems, each shall
 6    continue to provide the exclusive distribution facilities for
 7    any  existing  and  future  customers   that   the   electric
 8    cooperative  or  municipal  system  is  now  or in the future
 9    otherwise entitled to serve, and which customers are  now  or
10    in  the  future  receiving service provided by an alternative
11    retail electric supplier.
12    (Source: P.A. 90-561, eff. 12-16-97.)".

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