HB 2580

Abstract

Amends the Criminal Identification Act. Authorizes the Department of State Police to furnish to a peace officer certain information pertaining to the identification of any person for the purpose of determining whether that person may be granted or denied access to municipal utility facilities. Amends the Illinois Municipal Code to create a new Division concerning terrorism prevention. Authorizes the appropriate agency of a municipality to promulgate rules for the exclusion of any person from all or a portion of any water treatment facility, water pumping station, electrical transfer station, electrical generation facility, natural gas facility, or any other utility facility owned or operated by the municipality, based on criminal conviction information about that person obtained under the Criminal Identification Act. Amends the Public Utilities Act. Requires the Illinois Commerce Commission to require all electric public utilities to establish a security policy that includes on-site safeguards to restrict physical or electronic access to critical infrastructure and computerized control and data systems by personnel employed by or under contract with the electric public utility company or by personnel of any entity regulated by the Commission that supplies power to wholesale or residential markets. Requires the Commission to maintain a record of and requires each regulated entity that supplies power to wholesale or residential markets to provide to the Commission an annual affidavit signed by a representative of the regulated entity that states that the entity follows, at a minimum, the most current security guidelines set forth by the North American Energy Reliability Council.