republic-os/legislation/us/states/il/100th/hb-3400.md

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Bill	UTILITY-BILLING FOR SERVICES	Amends the Illinois Municipal Code. Provides that the corporate authorities of a municipality shall bill for any utility service, including previously unbilled service, within 12 months (for residential customers) or 24 months (for non-residential customers) after the provision of the utility service. Provides exceptions to the time limits for billing when the customer prevented the utility from accurately reading the meter. Provides that the corporate authorities shall not intentionally delay billing beyond the normal billing cycle, shall label amounts attributed to previously unbilled service as such, shall prorate previously unbilled service amounts to reflect varying rates during the unbilled time, and provide the customer with a payment arrangement option for previously unbilled service amounts. Amends the Public Water District Act, the Water Service District Act, the Water Authorities Act, and the Water Commission Act making similar changes. Effective immediately.	us/states/il	Illinois General Assembly	100th	HB 3400	Illinois HB 3400 (100th)	bill		enacted		3	34	2	2017-02-09	2017-08-18	openstates	ocd-bill/dd8e337a-5bc6-4f13-8fcf-6b9ee2d16a02	http://ilga.gov/legislation/BillStatus.asp?DocNum=3400&GAID=14&DocTypeID=HB&LegId=105171&SessionID=91&GA=100	44f74db9bfb6a27ca043f0491092de6fe92ac74c72e0890ab251db8d36b6a5c2	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-il

Illinois HB 3400 (100th) — UTILITY-BILLING FOR SERVICES

Amends the Illinois Municipal Code. Provides that the corporate authorities of a municipality shall bill for any utility service, including previously unbilled service, within 12 months (for residential customers) or 24 months (for non-residential customers) after the provision of the utility service. Provides exceptions to the time limits for billing when the customer prevented the utility from accurately reading the meter. Provides that the corporate authorities shall not intentionally delay billing beyond the normal billing cycle, shall label amounts attributed to previously unbilled service as such, shall prorate previously unbilled service amounts to reflect varying rates during the unbilled time, and provide the customer with a payment arrangement option for previously unbilled service amounts. Amends the Public Water District Act, the Water Service District Act, the Water Authorities Act, and the Water Commission Act making similar changes. Effective immediately.

Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. Introduced (filed) — source
2. Engrossed (committee substitute) — source
3. Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Third Reading — 104–0 (pass) · lower
• Third Reading — 55–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Joe Sosnowski — primary (person)

Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

• 2017-02-09 Filed with the Clerk by Rep. Joe Sosnowski filing
• 2017-02-10 First Reading reading-1
• 2017-02-10 Referred to Rules Committee referral-committee
• 2017-02-22 Assigned to Cities & Villages Committee referral-committee
• 2017-03-20 House Committee Amendment No. 1 Filed with Clerk by Rep. Joe Sosnowski amendment-introduction
• 2017-03-20 House Committee Amendment No. 1 Referred to Rules Committee referral-committee
• 2017-03-21 House Committee Amendment No. 1 Rules Refers to Cities & Villages Committee
• 2017-03-24 House Committee Amendment No. 2 Filed with Clerk by Rep. Joe Sosnowski amendment-introduction
• 2017-03-24 House Committee Amendment No. 2 Referred to Rules Committee referral-committee
• 2017-03-27 House Committee Amendment No. 2 Rules Refers to Cities & Villages Committee
• 2017-03-28 House Committee Amendment No. 1 Adopted in Cities & Villages Committee; by Voice Vote amendment-passage
• 2017-03-28 House Committee Amendment No. 2 Adopted in Cities & Villages Committee; by Voice Vote amendment-passage
• 2017-03-28 Do Pass as Amended / Short Debate Cities & Villages Committee; 014-000-000 committee-passage
• 2017-03-29 Placed on Calendar 2nd Reading - Short Debate
• 2017-04-05 Second Reading - Short Debate reading-2
• 2017-04-05 Placed on Calendar Order of 3rd Reading - Short Debate
• 2017-04-07 Third Reading - Short Debate - Passed 104-000-000 reading-3, passage
• 2017-04-20 Arrive in Senate introduction
• 2017-04-20 Placed on Calendar Order of First Reading April 25, 2017 reading-1
• 2017-05-04 Chief Senate Sponsor Sen. Pamela J. Althoff
• 2017-05-04 First Reading reading-1
• 2017-05-04 Referred to Assignments referral-committee
• 2017-05-05 Assigned to Local Government referral-committee
• 2017-05-12 Rule 2-10 Committee Deadline Established As May 19, 2017
• 2017-05-17 Do Pass Local Government; 009-000-000 committee-passage
• 2017-05-17 Placed on Calendar Order of 2nd Reading May 18, 2017
• 2017-05-19 Second Reading reading-2
• 2017-05-19 Placed on Calendar Order of 3rd Reading May 22, 2017
• 2017-05-25 Third Reading - Passed; 055-000-000 reading-3, passage
• 2017-05-25 Passed Both Houses
• 2017-06-23 Sent to the Governor executive-receipt
• 2017-08-18 Governor Approved executive-signature
• 2017-08-18 Effective Date August 18, 2017
• 2017-08-18 Public Act . . . . . . . . . 100-0178 became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/dd8e337a-5bc6-4f13-8fcf-6b9ee2d16a02. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Illinois legislature records).