Amends the Electric Service Customer Choice and Rate Relief Law of 1997 in the Public Utilities Act. Provides that an electric utility with more than 100,000 customers in the State shall file a tariff pursuant to specified provisions that provides alternative retail electric suppliers, and electric utilities other than the electric utility in whose service area the retail customers are located, with the option to have the electric utility purchase 2 billing cycles worth of uncollectible receivables for power and energy service provided to residential retail customers and to non-residential retail customers (instead of non-residential retail customers with a non-coincident peak demand of less than 400 kilowatts) upon returning that customer to that electric utility for delivery and energy service after that alternative retail electric supplier, or an electric utility other than the electric utility in whose service area the retail customer is located, has made reasonable collection efforts on that account. Makes a technical correction. Effective immediately.
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Resolves that the following people are appointed to the Standing Committee of Correspondents: Ray Long, Chicago Tribune; Doug Finke, GateHouse News Service; Dave McKinney, Chicago Sun-Times; Gordon Graham, WAND-TV; and Amanda Vinicky, WUIS-Radio.
Resolves that the Secretary inform the House of Representatives that the Senate has organized by the election of a President and other permanent officers and is ready to proceed with business of session.
Resolves that, for the 97th General Assembly, Jillayne Rock is elected Secretary of the Senate, Scott Kaiser is elected Assistant Secretary of the Senate, Joe Dominguez is elected Sergeant-at-Arms, Dirk R. Eilers is elected Assistant Sergeant-at-Arms.
Resolves that the Secretary shall prepare each day an exact transcript of the Journal and furnish it to the Legislative Printing Unit, which shall print copies of the Journal.
Creates the Illinois Vacant and Abandoned Properties Act. Contains only a short title provision.
Mourns the death of Dr. Lorraine D. Williams of East St. Louis.
Mourns the death of Mamie Clayborne Bolden of East St. Louis.
Mourns the death of Delores Hutt Longley.
Mourns the death of Tyrone Leon Thompson of St. Louis, Missouri.