Bill Amendment: IL HB3163 | 2015-2016 | 99th General Assembly

NOTE: For additional amemendments please see the Bill Drafting List

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Bill Title: COAL MINING-RECORDERS

Status: 2015-03-27 - House Committee Amendment No. 2 Rule 19(a) / Re-referred to Rules Committee [HB3163 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2015-HB3163-House_Amendment_001.html

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Rep. David Reis

Filed: 3/19/2015

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AMENDMENT TO HOUSE BILL 3163
AMENDMENT NO. ______. Amend House Bill 3163 by replacing
everything after the enacting clause with the following:
"Section 5. The Coal Mining Act is amended by adding
Section 1.25 and by changing Sections 5.11, 6.10, and 6.11 as
follows:
(225 ILCS 705/1.25 new)
Sec. 1.25. Recorder. "Recorder" means a person with a mine
manager certification or mine examiner certification, trained
and designated by the operator as the individual responsible
for recording the mine examiner's examination of the
underground workings of the mine.
(225 ILCS 705/5.11) (from Ch. 96 1/2, par. 511)
Sec. 5.11. To see that a mine examiner makes the
examinations provided in Articles 5, 6, and 31 of this Act, and

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that he or she enters his or her report by calling it out to the
surface to either a recorder or mine examiner to record the
report in a book or computer system that is thereof with
indelible pencil or ink in a well-bound or properly protected
loose leaf book provided by the operator for that purpose, and
the book or computer system shall be secure and not susceptible
to alteration.
(Source: Laws 1953, p. 701.)
(225 ILCS 705/6.10) (from Ch. 96 1/2, par. 610)
Sec. 6.10. Upon completing his or her examination, he or
she shall make a daily record of the same either by calling out
the results of the examination to a recorder or by personally
recording the report. The recorder or mine examiner shall
record the report in a book or computer system that is provided
by the operator for that purpose, and the book or computer
system shall be secure and not susceptible to alteration. The
mine examination is in a book kept for that purpose, for the
information of the company, the State Mine Inspector and all
other persons interested; and this report shall be recorded
before the miners are permitted to enter the mine. If the
record is made by someone other than the examiner, then the
examiner shall verify the record by initials and date record
shall be made each morning before the miners are permitted to
enter the mine.
(Source: Laws 1953, p. 701.)

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(225 ILCS 705/6.11) (from Ch. 96 1/2, par. 611)
Sec. 6.11. Should any dangerous conditions be found as
described in Section 6.09, he or she shall call the conditions
out to a recorder or shall personally record the report. The
recorder or mine examiner shall record the report in a book or
computer system that is provided by the operator for that
purpose, and the book or computer system shall be secure and
not susceptible to alteration. The recorder or mine examiner
shall ensure that the report sets record the same in the daily
record book of examinations, setting forth the nature of the
conditions found and the location of same. If the mine
examiner, upon verifying the mine examiner book, notes an
omission or error, he or she shall immediately notify the shift
mine manager and make the necessary revisions to the pre-shift
book.
(Source: Laws 1955, p. 2012.)
Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon
becoming law.".