IL SB1398 | 2025-2026 | 104th General Assembly
Status
Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 15)
Status: Introduced on January 29 2025 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2026-05-22 - Rule 3-9(a) / Re-referred to Assignments
Pending: Senate Assignments Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [HTML]
Status: Introduced on January 29 2025 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2026-05-22 - Rule 3-9(a) / Re-referred to Assignments
Pending: Senate Assignments 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
SOLID WASTE-BAN-FOOD WASTE
Sponsors
History
| Date | Chamber | Action |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-05-22 | Senate | Rule 3-9(a) / Re-referred to Assignments |
| 2026-05-15 | Senate | Rule 2-10 Committee/3rd Reading Deadline Established As May 22, 2026 |
| 2026-04-24 | Senate | Rule 2-10 Committee/3rd Reading Deadline Established As May 15, 2026 |
| 2026-03-13 | Senate | Rule 2-10 Committee Deadline Established As April 24, 2026 |
| 2026-01-27 | Senate | Re-assigned to Appropriations |
| 2025-06-02 | Senate | Rule 3-9(a) / Re-referred to Assignments |
| 2025-05-23 | Senate | Rule 2-10 Committee/3rd Reading Deadline Established As June 1, 2025 |
| 2025-05-09 | Senate | Rule 2-10 Committee/3rd Reading Deadline Established As May 23, 2025 |
| 2025-04-11 | Senate | Rule 2-10 Committee Deadline Established As May 9, 2025 |
| 2025-04-04 | Senate | Added as Co-Sponsor Sen. Mike Porfirio |
| 2025-03-21 | Senate | Rule 2-10 Committee Deadline Established As April 11, 2025 |
| 2025-03-20 | Senate | Added as Co-Sponsor Sen. Julie A. Morrison |
| 2025-03-20 | Senate | Added as Co-Sponsor Sen. Karina Villa |
| 2025-03-13 | Senate | Added as Co-Sponsor Sen. Lakesia Collins |
| 2025-03-12 | Senate | Assigned to Appropriations |
| 2025-03-11 | Senate | Added as Co-Sponsor Sen. Mike Simmons |
| 2025-03-10 | Senate | Added as Co-Sponsor Sen. David Koehler |
| 2025-03-06 | Senate | Added as Co-Sponsor Sen. Laura M. Murphy |
| 2025-03-06 | Senate | Added as Co-Sponsor Sen. Willie Preston |
| 2025-03-06 | Senate | Added as Co-Sponsor Sen. Laura Fine |
| 2025-03-06 | Senate | Added as Co-Sponsor Sen. Laura Ellman |
| 2025-03-06 | Senate | Added as Co-Sponsor Sen. Rachel Ventura |
| 2025-03-06 | Senate | Added as Co-Sponsor Sen. Sara Feigenholtz |
| 2025-03-04 | Senate | Added as Co-Sponsor Sen. Graciela Guzmán |
| 2025-02-20 | Senate | Added as Co-Sponsor Sen. Mary Edly-Allen |
| 2025-01-29 | Senate | Referred to Assignments |
| 2025-01-29 | Senate | First Reading |
| 2025-01-29 | Senate | Filed with Secretary by Sen. Adriane Johnson |
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 |
