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90_SB1744

      220 ILCS 5/13-506.2 new
          Amends the Public Utilities Act.  Requires  the  Commerce
      Commission   to   order   carriers   to   provide   unbundled
      telecommunications  services  and  network  elements to other
      telecommunications  carriers  authorized  to  provide   local
      exchange   telecommunications  services  in  any  combination
      requested.  Provides that a telecommunications carrier  shall
      unbundle  telecommunications services and network elements in
      the  same  manner  required  by  the  Federal  Communications
      Commission for the provisions of telecommunications  services
      and   network   elements  provided  under  its  jurisdiction.
      Effective immediately.
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 1        AN ACT to  amend  the  Public  Utilities  Act  by  adding
 2    Section 13-506.2.
 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 13-506.2 as follows:
 7        (220 ILCS 5/13-506.2 new)
 8        Sec. 13-506.2.  Unbundling of noncompetitive services and
 9    network elements.  A telecommunications carrier that provides
10    both  noncompetitive   and   competitive   telecommunications
11    services  shall provide all noncompetitive telecommunications
12    services and network elements on an unbundled  basis  to  the
13    same  extent  the  Federal Communications Commission requires
14    that carrier  to  unbundle  the  same  services  and  network
15    elements  provided  under  its  jurisdiction.   The  Illinois
16    Commerce  Commission  may  require  additional  unbundling of
17    noncompetitive  telecommunications   services   and   network
18    elements   over   which   it  has  jurisdiction  based  on  a
19    determination, after  notice  and  hearing,  that  additional
20    unbundling  is  in the public interest and is consistent with
21    the policy goals and  other  provisions  of  this  Act.   The
22    Illinois  Commerce  Commission shall order a carrier required
23    to  provide   unbundled   noncompetitive   telecommunications
24    services  and  network elements to provide any combination of
25    unbundled  services  and  network  elements  to   any   other
26    telecommunications  carrier  certificated  to  provide  local
27    exchange  telecommunications  services  that  requests such a
28    combination of unbundled services or network elements, if the
29    Commission determines that provision of such a combination of
30    unbundled services or  network  elements  is  in  the  public
31    interest  and  is  consistent with the policy goals and other
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 1    provisions of this  Act.   The  rate  for  a  combination  of
 2    unbundled  services  or network elements shall not exceed the
 3    sum of the tariffed  rates  for  the  unbundled  services  or
 4    network elements in the combination.
 5        Section  99.  Effective date.  This Act takes effect upon
 6    becoming law.

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