Flinn Report. Illinois Regulation

              Illinois Regulation is a summary of the weekly regulatory decisions of State agencies published in the Illinois Register and action
taken by the Illinois General Assembly's Joint Committee on Administrative Rules. Illinois Regulation is designed to inform and
involve the public in changes taking place in agency administration.
VOL. 35 Issue 45
Regulation Illinois
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New Regulations
Proposed
Regulations
NEW REGULATIONS: Rules adopted by agencies this week.
PROPOSED REGULATIONS: Rules proposed by agencies this week, commencing a 45-day First Notice period. Public comments must be accepted
by the agency for the period of time indicated.
: Symbol designating rules of special interest to small businesses, small municipalities, and not-for-profit corporations. Agencies are required to consider
comments from these groups and minimize the regulatory burden on them.
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November 4, 2011
Claire B. Eberle, Editor Joint Committee on Administrative Rules 700 Stratton Office Bldg., Springfield IL 62706
Elaine Spencer, Assoc. Editor Illinois General Assembly 217/785-2254 ilga.gov/commission/jcar
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ELECTRICITY BROKERS
The ILLINOIS COMMERCE COMMIS-SION
adopted amendments to "Li-censure
of Retail Electric Agents, Bro-kers
and Consultants" (83 Ill Adm Code
454; 35 Ill Reg 333), effective 11/1/11,
that implement Public Act 96-1385.
The Part concerns licensing require-ments
for persons engaged in the
procurement or sale of retail electric-ity
supplies for third parties. The Illi-nois
Power Agency is exempted by
these amendments from the Part's re-quirements,
as are persons acting
exclusively on behalf of a retail elec-tric
supplier on condition that exclu-sivity
is disclosed to the customer.
Further amendments impose the fol-lowing
additional disclosure require-ments
to the customer on licensees:
(1) the fact that they are not employed
by the utility operating in the appli-cable
service area and they will be
receiving compensation from the sup-plier
and (2) on or after 7/1/11, the
total price per kilowatt-hour and the
total anticipated costs, inclusive of all
fees or commissions received by the
licensee, that will be paid by the
customer over the period of the con-tract.
Also, a public, redacted version
of the licensee's required, verified an-nual
report may be submitted to ICC
along with a proprietary version to
protect against disclosure of com-petitively
sensitive market share infor-mation.
The redacted information will
be afforded proprietary status for 2
years. A change since 1st Notice adds
statutory language requiring licens-ees
to use one electric supply esti-mate
prepared for a particular cus-tomer
consistently in all service offers
presented to that customer. Those
affected by this rulemaking include
electric utilities and alternative retail
electric suppliers that are small busi-nesses.
Questions/requests for copies: Conrad
Rubinkowski, ICC, 527 E. Capitol Ave.,
Springfield IL 62701, 217/785-3922.
Please reference docket 10-0733.
OCCUPATIONAL THERAPISTS
The DEPARTMENT OF FINANCIAL
AND PROFESSIONAL REGULATION
adopted amendments to rules titled
"Illinois Occupational Therapy Prac-tice
Act" (68 Ill Adm Code 1315; 35 Ill
Reg 6253), effective 11/4/11. The
rulemaking increases the fee for resto-ration
of a license from other than
inactive status from $20 to $50 plus all
lapsed renewal fees and expands the
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 SCHOOLS
The STATE BOARD OF EDUCATION
proposed amendments to its rules
titled "Public Schools Evaluation, Rec-ognition
and Supervision" (23 Ill. Adm.
Code 1; 35 Ill. Reg. 17572) to imple-ment
provisions in 3 Public Acts, up-date
a document incorporated by
reference and reflect current require-ments
for special education supervi-sors.
PA 97-8 requires that all voting
school board members elected or
appointed after June 2011 complete 4
hours of professional development
leadership training in education and
labor law, financial oversight and ac-countability
and fiduciary responsi-bilities
of a school board member.
The training may be provided by an
association responsible for training
school board members or by another
qualified provider approved by SBE.
The requirements for providers seek-ing
SBE approval to provide this train-ing
to school board members are set
out, as well as SBE's approval criteria.
SBE will post the names of all ap-proved
providers on its website. Ap-proval
is valid for 2 calendar years.
The rulemaking also implements a
provision in PA 97-339 that specifies
how pupils enrolled in a remote edu-
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