Bill Text: IL HB5756 | 2013-2014 | 98th General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Amends the Service Obligations and Conditions Article of the Public Utilities Act. Provides that a utility shall reconnect or restore a residential customer's service no later than 48 hours after the resolution of the reason for the disconnection or termination, including entering into a repayment agreement with the utility, if the customer's gas or electric service is used to provide or control the primary source of space heating in the dwelling. Requires a utility to issue a credit to the residential customer's account if the disconnection is made in error or the utility fails to reconnect service for 2 or more days beyond the authorized 48 hours. Prohibits a utility from billing reconnection charges to the residential customer if that customer's service is not reconnected within 48 hours or if service was disconnected in error. Provides that the credits issued to a residential customer's account shall not be a recoverable expense and that the revenue reduction caused by the credits shall not be recoverable in the utility's rates. Defines "monthly customer charge". Provides that electric and gas utilities shall record the time between the resolution of the reason for disconnection and the reconnection of service and include that information in a report filed with the Illinois Commerce Commission providing statistical data concerning numbers of disconnections and reconnections involving utility service and deposits and data concerning the dollar amounts involved in these transactions. Effective immediately.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 4-0)

Status: (Failed) 2014-12-03 - Session Sine Die [HB5756 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2013-HB5756-Amended.html

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Rep. Christian L. Mitchell

Filed: 3/24/2014

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AMENDMENT TO HOUSE BILL 5756
AMENDMENT NO. ______. Amend House Bill 5756 on page 1, line
10, by replacing "service" with "electric or gas service"; and
on page 1, by replacing lines 12 through 15 with the following:
"including entering into a repayment agreement with the
utility."; and
on page 2, by inserting immediately below line 26 the
following:
"(e) This Section does not apply under the following
circumstances:
(1) when utility service has been disconnected at a
location other than the meter, except that this Section
applies to disconnections using automated metering
infrastructure;
(2) when service has been disconnected due to
tampering;

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(3) when the customer or an adult authorized by the
customer does not grant a utility representative access to
the meter or other household area required for reconnection
at the time of any appointment mutually agreed upon by the
utility and the customer;
(4) when an appliance in the customer's premises that
require reconnection by a utility representative is not in
working order such that reconnection would pose a threat to
health or safety; or
(5) when unanticipated circumstances due to
extraordinary weather events or conditions prevent
compliance with this Section.
(f) If a utility subject to this Section incurs incremental
costs associated with compliance with this Section, other than
the credits that are not to be recovered in rates, those
incremental costs that are just and reasonable shall be
recoverable to the extent provided for in Article IX of this
Act.".