{"data":{"id":"us-il/20-ilcs-735-10-10","jurisdiction":"us-il","citation":"20 ILCS 735/10-10","heading":"","body":"(Section scheduled to be repealed on September 15, 2045)\nDefinitions. As used in this Act, unless the context otherwise requires:\n\"Agencies\" or \"State agencies\" has the same meaning as \"State agencies\" under Section 1-7 of the Illinois State Auditing Act.\n\"Commission\" means the Energy Transition Workforce Commission created in Section 10-15.\n\"Department\" means the Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity.\n\"Displaced energy worker\" means an energy worker who has lost employment, or is anticipated by the Department to lose employment within the next 5 years, due to the reduced operation or closure of a fossil fuel power plant, nuclear power plant, or coal mine.\n\"Energy worker\" means a person who has been employed full-time for a period of one year or longer, and within the previous 5 years, at a fossil fuel power plant, a nuclear power plant, or a coal mine located within the State of Illinois, whether or not they are employed by the owner of the power plant or mine. Energy workers are considered to be full-time if they work at least 35 hours per week for 45 weeks a year or the 1,820 work-hour equivalent with vacations, paid holidays, and sick time, but not overtime, included in this computation. Classification of an individual as an energy worker continues for 5 years from the latest date of employment or the effective date of this Act, whichever is later.\n\"Environmental justice communities\" shall have the meaning set forth in Section 1-56 of the Illinois Power Agency Act and the most recent Commission-approved long-term renewable resources procurement plan of the Illinois Power Agency.\n\"Investor-owned electric generating plant\" means an electric generating unit or fossil fuel-fired unit that has a nameplate capacity or serves a generator that has a nameplate capacity greater than 25Mwe and that produces electricity, including, but not limited to, coal-fired, coal-derived, oil-fired, natural gas-fired, and cogeneration units.\n\"Local labor market area\" means an economically integrated area within which individuals reside and find employment within a reasonable distance of their places of residence or can readily change jobs without changing their places of residence.\n\"Low-income\" means persons and families whose income does not exceed 80% of area median income, adjusted for family size and revised every 2 years.\n\"Renewable energy enterprise\" means a company that is engaged in the production, manufacturing, distribution, or development of renewable energy resources and associated technologies.\n\"Renewable energy project\" means a project conducted by a renewable energy enterprise for the purpose of generating renewable energy resources or energy storage.\n\"Renewable energy resources\" has the meaning set forth in Section 1-10 of the Illinois Power Agency Act.\n\"Rule\" has the meaning set forth in Section 1-70 of the Illinois Administrative Procedure Act.","path":["CHAPTER 20 EXECUTIVE BRANCH","Energy Community Reinvestment Act."],"source_url":"https://www.ilga.gov/legislation/ILCS/details?ActID=4222\u0026ChapterID=5\u0026ChapAct=FullText\u0026Print=True","current_through":"at least Public Act 104-790","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-09-15T04:46:14Z","sha256":"68c8de0420f00a5394b2fb5ed1c62b334af12056f685e0b35da50dac2c70aa57","source_id":"us-il","stale":false,"prev":"us-il/20-ilcs-735-10-5","next":"us-il/20-ilcs-735-10-15"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}