Sen. Bill Cunningham
Filed: 3/16/2021
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| 1 | AMENDMENT TO SENATE BILL 486
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| 2 | AMENDMENT NO. ______. Amend Senate Bill 486 as follows:
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| 3 | on page 1, line 5, after "Sections", by inserting "13-406,"; | ||||||
| 4 | and | ||||||
| 5 | on page 1, immediately below line 5, by inserting the | ||||||
| 6 | following:
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| 7 | "(220 ILCS 5/13-406) (from Ch. 111 2/3, par. 13-406)
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| 8 | (Section scheduled to be repealed on December 31, 2021)
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| 9 | Sec. 13-406. Abandonment of service. | ||||||
| 10 | (a) No telecommunications carrier offering or providing
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| 11 | noncompetitive telecommunications service pursuant to a valid
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| 12 | Certificate of Service Authority or certificate of public | ||||||
| 13 | convenience and
necessity shall discontinue or abandon such | ||||||
| 14 | service once initiated until
and unless it shall demonstrate, | ||||||
| 15 | and the Commission finds, after notice and
hearing, that such | ||||||
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| 1 | discontinuance or abandonment will not deprive customers
of | ||||||
| 2 | any necessary or essential telecommunications service or | ||||||
| 3 | access thereto
and is not otherwise contrary to the public | ||||||
| 4 | interest. No
telecommunications carrier offering or providing | ||||||
| 5 | competitive
telecommunications service shall completely | ||||||
| 6 | discontinue or abandon such service to an identifiable class | ||||||
| 7 | or group of customers once
initiated except upon 60 days | ||||||
| 8 | notice to the Commission and affected
customers. The | ||||||
| 9 | Commission may, upon its own motion or upon complaint,
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| 10 | investigate the proposed discontinuance or abandonment of a | ||||||
| 11 | competitive
telecommunications service and may, after notice | ||||||
| 12 | and hearing, prohibit such
proposed discontinuance or | ||||||
| 13 | abandonment if the Commission finds that it
would be contrary | ||||||
| 14 | to the public interest. If the Commission does not provide | ||||||
| 15 | notice of a hearing within 60 calendar days after the | ||||||
| 16 | notification or holds a hearing and fails to find that the | ||||||
| 17 | proposed discontinuation or abandonment would be contrary to | ||||||
| 18 | the public interest, the provider may discontinue or abandon | ||||||
| 19 | such service after providing at least 30 days' days notice to | ||||||
| 20 | affected customers. This Section does not apply to a Large | ||||||
| 21 | Electing Provider proceeding under Section 13-406.1.
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| 22 | (b) A Small Electing Provider may choose to cease offering | ||||||
| 23 | or providing a telecommunications service pursuant to either | ||||||
| 24 | this Section or Section 13-406.1 of this Act in the same manner | ||||||
| 25 | as a Large Electing Provider. A Small Electing Provider that | ||||||
| 26 | elects to cease offering or providing a telecommunications | ||||||
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| 1 | service pursuant to Section 13-406.1 shall be subject to all | ||||||
| 2 | of the provisions that apply to a Large Electing Provider | ||||||
| 3 | under Section 13-406.1. In this subsection (b), "Small | ||||||
| 4 | Electing Provider" means an incumbent local exchange carrier, | ||||||
| 5 | as defined in Section 13-202.5 of this Act, that is an Electing | ||||||
| 6 | Provider, as defined in Section 13-506.2 of this Act, and | ||||||
| 7 | that, together with all of its incumbent local exchange | ||||||
| 8 | carrier affiliates offering telecommunications services within | ||||||
| 9 | the State of Illinois, has fewer than 40,000 subscriber access | ||||||
| 10 | lines as of January 1, 2020. | ||||||
| 11 | (Source: P.A. 100-20, eff. 7-1-17.)".
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