94TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2005 and 2006
HB1938


 
Introduced 2/14/2005, by Rep. Michael J. Madigan - Barbara Flynn Currie - Annazette Collins
 
SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
 		














220 ILCS 5/13-406
  from Ch. 111 2/3, par. 13-406







    Amends the Public Utilities Act.  Makes a technical change in a Section concerning discontinuation or abandonment of telecommunications service.
















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HB1938

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    AN ACT concerning regulation.

 
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    Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
 
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represented in the General Assembly:


 
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    Section 5. The Public Utilities Act is amended by changing 
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Section 13-406 as follows:
 



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    (220 ILCS 5/13-406)  (from Ch. 111 2/3, par. 13-406)



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    (Section scheduled to be repealed on July 1, 2005)

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    Sec. 13-406. No telecommunications carrier offering or 
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providing
noncompetitive telecommunications service pursuant 
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to a valid
Certificate of Service Authority or certificate of 
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public convenience and
and
necessity shall discontinue or 
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abandon such service once initiated until
and unless it shall 
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demonstrate, and the Commission finds, after notice and

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hearing, that such discontinuance or abandonment will not 
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deprive customers
of any necessary or essential 
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telecommunications service or access thereto
and is not 
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otherwise contrary to the public interest.  No

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telecommunications carrier offering or providing competitive

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telecommunications service shall discontinue or abandon such 
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service once
initiated except upon 30 days notice to the 
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Commission and affected
customers.  The Commission may, upon its 
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own motion or upon complaint,
investigate the proposed 
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discontinuance or abandonment of a competitive

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telecommunications service and may, after notice and hearing, 
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prohibit such
proposed discontinuance or abandonment if the 
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Commission finds that it
would be contrary to the public 
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interest.
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(Source: P.A. 84-1063.)