Bill Text: IL SB1409 | 2023-2024 | 103rd General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Amends the Illinois Emergency Planning and Community Right to Know Act. Provides that local emergency response planning officials, in consultation with the State Emergency Response Commission (SERC), shall partner with school districts in their regions to disseminate information pertaining to safety threats related to the storage and transport of hazardous substances, including petroleum oil and high-hazard flammable trains (HHFTs), to the parents of attending students, faculty and staff, and schools at risk of being negatively impacted by storage facilities of such hazardous substances or the transport of such hazardous substances. Requires the SERC to perform specified tasks. Provides that the Illinois State Board of Education and the Illinois Emergency Management Agency shall have joint rulemaking authority to adopt rules to implement the provisions. Contains other provisions.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2023-02-06 - Referred to Assignments [SB1409 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2023-SB1409-Introduced.html

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103RD GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2023 and 2024 SB1409 Introduced 2/6/2023, by Sen. Laura M. Murphy SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
430 ILCS 100/19.1 new
Amends the Illinois Emergency Planning and Community Right to Know Act. Provides that local emergency response planning officials, in consultation with the State Emergency Response Commission (SERC), shall partner with school districts in their regions to disseminate information pertaining to safety threats related to the storage and transport of hazardous substances, including petroleum oil and high-hazard flammable trains (HHFTs), to the parents of attending students, faculty and staff, and schools at risk of being negatively impacted by storage facilities of such hazardous substances or the transport of such hazardous substances. Requires the SERC to perform specified tasks. Provides that the Illinois State Board of Education and the Illinois Emergency Management Agency shall have joint rulemaking authority to adopt rules to implement the provisions. Contains other provisions.
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A BILL FOR
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AN ACT concerning safety.
Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
represented in the General Assembly:
Section 5. The Illinois Emergency Planning and Community
Right to Know Act is amended by adding Section 19.1 as follows:
(430 ILCS 100/19.1 new)
Sec. 19.1. Hazardous substance transportation around
schools.
(a) Local emergency response planning officials, in
consultation with the SERC, shall partner with school
districts in their regions to disseminate information
pertaining to safety threats related to the storage and
transport of hazardous substances, including petroleum oil and
high-hazard flammable trains (HHFTs), to the parents of
attending students, faculty and staff, and schools at risk of
being negatively impacted by storage facilities of such
hazardous substances or the transport of such hazardous
substances.
(b) Local emergency response planning officials, in
consultation with the SERC, shall include school districts in
their regions in the development and implementation of oil
spill response plans specific to incidents involving the
storage and transport of hazardous substances, including

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petroleum oil and high-hazard flammable trains (HHFTs).
(c) The SERC shall perform the following:
(1) Identify worst-case scenarios that are to be
communicated to both administrators and teachers within a
school district that is within the region of a local
emergency response planning office. Before any
implementation of a plan may go into effect, teachers and
administrators must be given the opportunity to provide
input on those plans and the Local Emergency Planning
Committee shall take that input into consideration.
(2) Identify routes and safety zones, which shall be
visibly marked and communicated to both administrators and
teachers. School personnel shall be provided with
information on routes to take and locations where they can
seek safety for students.
(3) Identify and communicate specific types of
hazardous substances that can negatively impact a school
to both administrators and teachers. Response plans may
vary based on the potential impact of different hazardous
substances.
(4) Include drills as a component of emergency
response plans. Administrators, teachers, and students
must be given opportunities to practice these emergency
procedures. A review of these drills shall be conducted
within 3 years after the effective date of this amendatory
Act of the 103rd General Assembly to find opportunities

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for improvement of the drills to better protect children,
teachers, administrators, and any other school personnel.
(5) Make emergency response plans for students with
special needs or who have an Individualized Education
Program (IEP).
(6) Communicate evacuation locations and procedures to
parents.
(7) Create a hierarchy for communication to ensure
that administrators, teachers, parents, and students know
where and how to access information during an emergency.
(8) Identify and visibly mark potential impact zones
and safety zones. The visible markings may include, but
are not limited to, pamphlets, stickers on doors, or
signs.
(9) Provide information to school districts for the
communication of potential impact zones during student
registration, updated as necessary for each new school
year.
(10) Establish rules for the disclosure of a home
located within a potential impact zone upon the purchase
of a home, similar to how water damage is communicated
during the sale or purchase of a home.
(11) Work in collaboration with the Illinois Commerce
Commission to create a reduced speed zone for trains. This
zone shall have a limit of 20 mph for freight trains posted
one mile before a school and 2 miles after.

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(12) Implement an Incident Command System (ICS) as a
mandatory channel for communication.
(d) The Illinois State Board of Education and IEMA shall
have joint rulemaking authority to adopt rules to implement
this Section.