LEGISLATION ADVANCING OUT OF HOUSE, SENATE
This week is the 3rd Reading deadline in the House and Senate. Unless given an extension, bills that are not called for a vote will be sent back to their respective chamber’s Rules or Assignments Committee. The following are bills that CICI have been involved with and/or are tracking and have already passed from one chamber to another.
Environmentally Preferable Purchasing
This measure, HB 4035 (Tryon, R-Crystal Lake), requires that state agencies procure environmentally preferable supplies and services and authorizes a state agency to give a price preference of up to 10% for an environmentally preferable supply or service.
Investigating Biological and Chemical Agents
This proposal, HB 3922 (Harris, D-Chicago), mandates that the Department of Public Health (IDPH) shall investigate the causes of dangerously contagious or infectious diseases and the health effects, health conditions, or health ailments related to a biological, chemical, radiological, or nuclear event (instead of dangerously contagious or infectious diseases).
Green Buildings
This bill, HB 1013 (Boland, D-Moline), creates the Green Buildings Act to require that state-funded building construction and major renovations of existing state-owned facilities must meet certain energy and environmental standards of the Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) program rating system, the Green Building Initiative's Green Globes rating system, or an equivalent rating system. The bill allows for waivers of the standards by the Capital Development Board (CDB) or other agencies. CDB must also analyze and evaluate these standards after the earlier of 5 years or the completion of 10 projects.
Renewable Fuels Assistance Bills
This proposal, HB 680 (Moffitt, R-Galesburg), amends the Illinois Renewable Fuels Development Program, authorizing the Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity (DCEO) to award, in excess of the annual aggregate grant total, up to $4,000,000 to a grant applicant who installs advanced technologies for water usage, carbon footprint reduction, and other blending improvements designed to optimize processes at the applicant’s renewable fuels facility.
Also, this measure, HB 338 (Franks, D-Woodstock), provides that a grant recipient must be constructing, modifying, altering, or retrofitting a plant that has annual production capacity of no less than 5,000,000 (now, 30,000,000) gallons of renewable fuel per year.
Bio-Diesel Use
This bill, HB 2535 (Poe, R-Sherman), increases the percentage of biodiesel blend required to be used by a diesel powered vehicle owned by the state or units of local government when refueling at a bulk central fueling facility from 2% to 5%, unless the engine is designed to operate on a higher percentage.
Mercury-Containing Compact Fluorescent Bulbs
This bill, HB 2429 (May, D-Highland Park), now requires the IEPA to create an Internet Web site containing certain information about compact fluorescent lighting by October 1, 2009 and that they are to collaborate with certain entities to inform consumers about the proper disposal of compact fluorescent lighting. The bill also requires the Department of Central Management Services (CMS), in collaboration with the Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity (DCEO) and the IEPA, to review and revise procurement specifications for lamps and ballasts purchased by the state.
Green Cleaning for State Buildings
This proposal, HB 2437 (May, D-Highland Park), provides that every state-owned building establish a green cleaning policy whereby the building buys and uses only environmentally-sensitive cleaning products. They can deplete its existing cleaning and maintenance supply stocks and allows exemptions for buildings if adhering to these requirements would not be economically feasible
Single Billing – Natural Gas
This piece of legislation, HB 2527 (Holbrook, D-Belleville), amends the Alternative Gas Supplier Law in the Public Utilities Act to provide that "single billing" means the combined billing of the services provided by both a natural gas utility and an alternative gas supplier to any customer who has enrolled in a customer choice program.
Environmental Health Practitioners
This legislation, HB 1119 (Coulson, R-Glenview), amends the Environmental Health Practitioner Licensing Act to require DFPR to issue a license as a licensed environmental health practitioner to any applicant who holds a Registered Environmental Health Specialist/Registered Sanitarian credential in good standing with the National Environmental Health Association.
Great Lakes Protection Task Force
This proposal, HB 3828 (Bellock, R-Hinsdale), amends the Illinois Lake Management Program Act, creating the Task Force on the Conservation and Quality of the Great Lakes for the protection of the water quality and supply of the Great Lakes.
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