HB2819 Summary

• Amends the Telecommunications Infrastructure Maintenance Fee Act to clarify that municipalities cannot impose new franchise fees or charges on telecommunications retailers for public right-of-way access.

• Explicitly permits municipalities to require telecommunications carriers to pay a reasonable application fee to gain access to the public right-of-way.

• Maintains that existing agreements between telecommunications retailers and municipalities entered before this Act remain valid according to their stated terms.

• Reserves regulation of pole, conduit, and facility sharing terms exclusively to the Illinois Commerce Commission and Federal Communications Commission, excluding this from municipal home rule powers.

• Takes effect immediately upon becoming law.