Appropriates $2 from the General Revenue Fund to the Court of Claims for its FY04 ordinary and contingent expenses. Effective July 1, 2003.
Creates the Riparian Rights Act. Establishes rights to the access and use of the water and bottomland associated with the ownership of the bank or shore of an inland lake or stream. Provides that the owner of these rights has the right to do the following: (a) place a seasonal structure on bottomland to facilitate private noncommercial recreational use of the water if it does not unreasonably interfere with the use of the water by others entitled to use the water or interfere with water flow; (b) reasonably sand beaches to the existing water's edge; (c) construct and operate a pollution control facility that is approved for construction by the Environmental Protection Agency under the Environmental Protection Act; (d) construct and maintain minor drainage structures and facilities that are identified by rule established by the Department of Natural Resources; and (e) construct and maintain privately owned cooling or storage ponds used in connection with a public utility except at the interface with public waters.
Amends the Public Utilities Act. Provides that the Illinois Commerce Commission shall, within 9 months after an application is filed, issue its Order approving or denying any proposed reorganization involving the acquisition by a public utility or its affiliate of all of the common stock or substantially all of the operating assets, whether by merger, creation and acquisition of a limited liability or other company, or otherwise, of another public utility that has secured debt that is, or was, within the year prior to the filing of the application, rated below investment grade by at least 3 nationally recognized rating agencies. Establishes standards for production of electricity through renewable energy resources. Requires electric utilities and alternative retail electric suppliers to supply to Illinois customers electricity produced from renewable energy resources on an increasing scale beginning at 2% in 2005 and rising to 15% in 2020 and each year thereafter. Provides for enforcement by the Commission.
Appropriates $2 from the General Revenue Fund to the Illinois Educational Labor Relations Board for its FY05 ordinary and contingent expenses. Effective July 1, 2004.
Appropriates $2 from the General Revenue Fund to the Historic Preservation Agency for its FY04 ordinary and contingent expenses. Effective July 1, 2003.
Appropriates $2 from the General Revenue Fund to the Office of the Governor for its FY04 ordinary and contingent expenses. Effective July 1, 2003.
Appropriates $2 from the General Revenue Fund to the Department of Central Management Services for a grant to fund the Illinois Channel. Effective July 1, 2003.
Amends the Illinois Public Aid Code. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning disbursements from the Hospital Services Trust Fund. Effective immediately.
Amends the Public Utilities Act. Provides that each electric utility or alternative retail electric supplier shall provide sufficient renewable energy resources to comprise at least 2% of the total electricity that it supplies to its Illinois customers as of December 31, 2005, at least 3% of the total electricity that it supplies to its Illinois customers as of December 31, 2006, at least 5.5% of the total electricity that it supplies to its Illinois customers as of December 31, 2008, at least 8% of the total electricity that it supplies to its Illinois customers as of December 31, 2010, and at least 10% of the total electricity that it supplies to its Illinois customers as of December 31, 2012. Provides that, if an electric utility or alternative retail electric supplier does not purchase and supply all of the amounts of renewable energy specified, then the electric utility or alternative retail electric supplier shall pay a penalty of $25 per megawatthour each year for any shortfall in supply, which shall be deposited into the Renewable Energy Resources Trust Fund.
Amends the Riverboat Gambling Act. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the short title.
