IL HB1707 | 2025-2026 | 104th General Assembly
Status
Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 4)
Status: Introduced on January 24 2025 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2025-04-11 - Rule 19(a) / Re-referred to Rules Committee
Pending: House Rules Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [HTML]
Status: Introduced on January 24 2025 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2025-04-11 - Rule 19(a) / Re-referred to Rules Committee
Pending: House Rules Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [HTML]
Summary
Amends the Environmental Protection Act. Defines the terms "anaerobic digester", "anaerobic digestion", and "food". Deletes provisions that exempted certain composting facilities from regulation as a pollution control facility. Creates exemptions from the definition of "pollution control facility" for (i) the portion of a site or facility that is used for anaerobic digestion and (ii) the portion of a site or facility that is used to process food scrap at a food scrap processing facility. Provides for moneys that are appropriated from the Solid Waste Management Fund to the Agency in certain years for solid waste management activities to be segregated into a separate account for use by the Prairie Research Institute of the University of Illinois for the costs of implementing the Illinois Solid Waste Management Act. Amends the Solid Waste Planning and Recycling Act. Updates requirements for each county waste management plan's recycling program with respect to food scrap collection programs. Amends the Illinois Solid Waste Management Act. Provides that a person that generates more than the applicable regulatory threshold of food and food scrap and that is located within 20 miles, prior to July 1, 2035, or 25 miles, on and after July 1, 2035, of an Agency-permitted composting facility or anaerobic digester that accepts food scrap and that has the permitted capacity to accept food scrap shall, among other things, source separate food and food scrap from other solid waste and either arrange for the transfer of the food or food scrap to a location that manages food and food scrap in a manner consistent with the food and food scrap management hierarchy set forth in the Act or manage the food and food scrap on site in accordance with other applicable State and local laws and rules. Grants the Agency rulemaking powers. Contains other provisions. Effective immediately.
Title
EPA-LANDFILL GAS MGMT
Sponsors
History
| Date | Chamber | Action |
|---|---|---|
| 2025-04-11 | House | Rule 19(a) / Re-referred to Rules Committee |
| 2025-04-10 | House | Removed Co-Sponsor Rep. Camille Y. Lilly |
| 2025-04-10 | House | Added Chief Co-Sponsor Rep. Sonya M. Harper |
| 2025-04-02 | House | Added Co-Sponsor Rep. Ann M. Williams |
| 2025-03-26 | House | Held on Calendar Order of Second Reading - Short Debate |
| 2025-03-26 | House | Second Reading - Short Debate |
| 2025-03-21 | House | Placed on Calendar 2nd Reading - Short Debate |
| 2025-03-20 | House | Do Pass as Amended / Short Debate Energy & Environment Committee; 019-010-000 |
| 2025-03-20 | House | House Committee Amendment No. 1 Adopted in Energy & Environment Committee; by Voice Vote |
| 2025-03-18 | House | House Committee Amendment No. 1 Rules Refers to Energy & Environment Committee |
| 2025-03-17 | House | House Committee Amendment No. 1 Referred to Rules Committee |
| 2025-03-17 | House | House Committee Amendment No. 1 Filed with Clerk by Rep. Joyce Mason |
| 2025-03-10 | House | Added Co-Sponsor Rep. Camille Y. Lilly |
| 2025-03-06 | House | Added Co-Sponsor Rep. Anne Stava |
| 2025-02-18 | House | Assigned to Energy & Environment Committee |
| 2025-01-28 | House | Referred to Rules Committee |
| 2025-01-28 | House | First Reading |
| 2025-01-24 | House | Filed with the Clerk by Rep. Joyce Mason |
Code Citations
| Chapter | Article | Section | Citation Type | Statute Text |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 415 | 15 | 6 | Amended Code | Citation Text |
| 415 | 20 | 11 | New Code | See Bill Text |
| 415 | 5 | 22.15 | Amended Code | Citation Text |
| 415 | 5 | 22.22 | Amended Code | Citation Text |
| 415 | 5 | 3.121 | New Code | See Bill Text |
| 415 | 5 | 3.122 | New Code | See Bill Text |
| 415 | 5 | 3.196 | New Code | See Bill Text |
| 415 | 5 | 3.197 | Amended Code | Citation Text |
| 415 | 5 | 3.198 | New Code | See Bill Text |
| 415 | 5 | 3.330 | Amended Code | Citation Text |
