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91_HR0556
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1 HOUSE RESOLUTION
2 WHEREAS, Universally available and widely affordable
3 telecommunications services are essential to the health,
4 welfare and prosperity of all Illinois citizens; and
5 WHEREAS, Federal regulatory and judicial rulings in the
6 1980s caused a restructuring of the telecommunications
7 industry and opened some aspects of the industry to
8 competitive entry, thereby necessitating revision of State
9 telecommunications regulatory policies and practices; and
10 WHEREAS Revisions in telecommunications regulatory
11 policies and practices in Illinois beginning in the mid-1980s
12 brought the benefits of competition to consumers in many
13 telecommunications markets, but not in local exchange
14 telecommunications service markets; and
15 WHEREAS, The federal Telecommunications Act of 1996
16 established the goal of opening all telecommunications
17 service markets to competition and accords to the states the
18 responsibility to establish and enforce policies necessary to
19 attain that goal; and
20 WHEREAS, It is in the immediate interest of the People of
21 the State of Illinois for the State to exercise its rights
22 within the new framework of federal telecommunications policy
23 to ensure that the economic benefits of competition in all
24 telecommunications service markets are realized as
25 effectively as possible; and
26 WHEREAS, The competitive offering of all
27 telecommunications services will increase innovation and
28 efficiency in the provision of telecommunications services
29 and may lead to reduced prices for consumers, increased
30 investment in communications infrastructure, the creation of
31 new jobs, and the attraction of new businesses to Illinois;
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1 and
2 WHEREAS, Protection of the public interest requires
3 changes in the regulation of telecommunications carriers and
4 services to ensure, to the maximum feasible extent, the
5 reasonable and timely development of effective competition in
6 all telecommunications service markets; and
7 WHEREAS, The provisions of the Telecommunications Article
8 (XIII) of the Public Utilities Act will be repealed on July
9 1, 2001; therefore, be it
10 RESOLVED, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE
11 NINETY-FIRST GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that
12 there is created the Special House Committee on
13 Telecommunications Review, which shall consist of twelve
14 Representatives, with six members appointed by the Speaker
15 and six members appointed by the Minority Leader; the Speaker
16 shall appoint a co-chairperson from the majority party, and
17 the Minority Leader shall appoint a co-chairperson from the
18 minority party; the Special House Committee on
19 Telecommunication Review is empowered to conduct business
20 when a majority of the committee members have been appointed;
21 and be it further
22 RESOLVED, That this committee shall have the authority
23 granted to other special committees of the House of
24 Representatives.