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92_HB1194 LRB9203160JSpc 1 AN ACT concerning public utilities. 2 Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, 3 represented in the General Assembly: 4 Section 5. The Public Utilities Act is amended by 5 changing Section 16-125A as follows: 6 (220 ILCS 5/16-125A) 7 Sec. 16-125A. Consolidated billing provision for 8 established intergovernmental agreement participants. 9 (a) The tariffs of aneachelectric utility serving at 10 least 1,000,000 customers shall permit governmental 11 customers acting through an intergovernmental agreement that 12 was in effect 30 days prior to the date specified in 13 subsection (b) and which provides for these governmental 14 customers to work cooperatively in the purchase of electric 15 energy to aggregate their monthly kilowatt-hour energy usage 16 and monthly kilowatt billing demand. 17 (b) In implementing the provisions of this Section, the 18 rates and charges applicable under the combined billing 19 tariff of the serving utility in effect on May 1, 1997 shall 20 apply to all load of eligible government customers selected 21 by the governmental customers including, but not limited to, 22 load served under contract. 23 (c) For purposes of this Section, "governmental 24 customers" shall mean any customer that is a municipality, 25 municipal corporation, unit of local government, park 26 district, school district, community college district, 27 forest preserve district, special district, public 28 corporation, body politic and corporate, sanitary or water 29 reclamation district, or other local government agencies, 30 including any entity created by intergovernmental agreement 31 among any of the foregoing entities to implement the -2- LRB9203160JSpc 1 arrangements permitted by subsections (a) and (b) of this 2 Section. 3 (d) Electric utilities shall file tariffs that comply 4 with the requirements of this Section within 60 days after 5 the effective date of this amendatory Act of 1997. 6 (Source: P.A. 90-561, eff. 12-16-97.)