Bill Text: IL SB2960 | 2023-2024 | 103rd General Assembly | Engrossed
Bill Title: Creates the Small Single-Use Plastic Bottle Act. Provides that, beginning July 1, 2025, hotels with 50 rooms or more and, beginning January 1, 2026, hotels with less than 50 rooms may not provide small single-use plastic bottles containing personal care products to either (i) a customer of the establishment who is staying in a sleeping room accommodation or any space within the sleeping room accommodation or (ii) a customer of the establishment who is using a bathroom shared by the public or guests. Establishes civil penalties. Defines terms.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 11-0)
Status: (Engrossed) 2024-05-06 - Added Alternate Co-Sponsor Rep. Robyn Gabel [SB2960 Detail]
Download: Illinois-2023-SB2960-Engrossed.html
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| 1 | AN ACT concerning regulation.
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| 2 | Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, | ||||||
| 3 | represented in the General Assembly:
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| 4 | Section 1. Short title. This Act may be cited as the Small | ||||||
| 5 | Single-Use Plastic Act.
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| 6 | Section 5. Definitions. As used in this Act: | ||||||
| 7 | "Hotel" has the meaning given in the Hotel Operators' | ||||||
| 8 | Occupation Tax Act. | ||||||
| 9 | "Personal care products" includes shampoo, hair | ||||||
| 10 | conditioner, and bath soap intended to be applied to or used on | ||||||
| 11 | the human body in the shower or bath. | ||||||
| 12 | "Small, single-use plastic bottle" means a plastic bottle | ||||||
| 13 | or container with less than a 6-ounce capacity that is | ||||||
| 14 | intended to be nonreusable by the end user.
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| 15 | Section 10. Small, single-use plastic bottles at hotels. | ||||||
| 16 | (a) Beginning July 1, 2025, a hotel with 50 rooms or more | ||||||
| 17 | shall not provide small, single-use plastic bottles containing | ||||||
| 18 | personal care products in any space within a sleeping room | ||||||
| 19 | accommodation, within bathrooms shared by the public or | ||||||
| 20 | guests, or to a customer of the establishment staying in a | ||||||
| 21 | sleeping room accommodation. | ||||||
| 22 | (b) Beginning January 1, 2026, a hotel shall not provide | ||||||
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| 1 | small, single-use plastic bottles containing personal care | ||||||
| 2 | products in any space within a sleeping room accommodation, | ||||||
| 3 | within bathrooms shared by the public or guests, or to a | ||||||
| 4 | customer of the establishment staying in a sleeping room | ||||||
| 5 | accommodation. | ||||||
| 6 | (c) A hotel may provide personal care products in small, | ||||||
| 7 | single-use plastic bottles to a person at no cost, upon | ||||||
| 8 | request, at a place other than a sleeping room accommodation, | ||||||
| 9 | a space within the sleeping room accommodation, or a space | ||||||
| 10 | within bathrooms shared by the public or guests. | ||||||
| 11 | (d) A unit of local government, including a home rule | ||||||
| 12 | unit, shall not regulate the provision of small, single-use | ||||||
| 13 | plastic bottles in a manner inconsistent with the regulation | ||||||
| 14 | by the State of the provision of small, single-use plastic | ||||||
| 15 | bottles under this Act. This Section is a limitation under | ||||||
| 16 | subsection (i) of Section 6 of Article VII of the Illinois | ||||||
| 17 | Constitution on the concurrent exercise by home rule units of | ||||||
| 18 | powers and functions exercised by the State.
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| 19 | Section 15. Civil penalties. | ||||||
| 20 | (a) A hotel in violation of this Act shall receive a | ||||||
| 21 | written warning for the first violation from a State's | ||||||
| 22 | Attorney or a municipal attorney. The written warning shall | ||||||
| 23 | recite the violation and advise that subsequent violations may | ||||||
| 24 | result in citations and penalties. Upon a second or subsequent | ||||||
| 25 | violation, the hotel may be liable for a civil penalty of $500 | ||||||
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