Illinois Senate Bill 3546 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Completed Legislative Action
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 8-0)
Status: Failed on January 13 2015 - 100% progression
Action: 2015-01-13 - Session Sine Die
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [HTML]

Creates the Carpet Stewardship Act. Provides that, for all carpet sold in this State, producers shall, individually or through a stewardship group, implement and finance a statewide carpet stewardship program that manages the product by reducing the product's waste generation, promotes its reuse and recycling, and provides for negotiation and execution of agreements to collect, transport, and process the product for end-of-life recycling and reuse. Provides that the Illinois Environmental Protection Agency must approve each carpet stewardship plan for the plan to be valid. Establishes requirements for review of the plans, carpet stewardship assessments, requirements for producers, retailers, and distributors of carpet. Requires stewardship groups to submit annual reports to the Agency and pay specified administrative fees. Provides enforcement provisions for the Act. Establishes requirements for State procurement of carpet in the future. Effective January 1, 2015.

CARPET STEWARDSHIP ACT

Sen. Melinda Bush [D]	Sen. Linda Holmes [D]	Sen. Michael Hastings [D]	Sen. William Delgado [D]
Sen. Daniel Biss [D]	Sen. William Cunningham [D]	Sen. Antonio Munoz [D]	Sen. Terry Link [D]

Date	Chamber	Action
2015-01-13	Senate	Session Sine Die
2014-04-11	Senate	Rule 3-9(a) / Re-referred to Assignments
2014-03-28	Senate	Rule 2-10 Committee Deadline Established As April 11, 2014
2014-03-25	Senate	Added as Co-Sponsor Sen. Terry Link
2014-03-25	Senate	Added as Co-Sponsor Sen. Antonio Muñoz
2014-03-25	Senate	Added as Co-Sponsor Sen. Bill Cunningham
2014-03-25	Senate	Added as Co-Sponsor Sen. Daniel Biss
2014-03-25	Senate	Added as Co-Sponsor Sen. William Delgado
2014-03-25	Senate	Added as Co-Sponsor Sen. Michael E. Hastings
2014-03-25	Senate	Added as Chief Co-Sponsor Sen. Linda Holmes
2014-03-21	Senate	Postponed - Environment
2014-03-05	Senate	Assigned to Environment
2014-02-14	Senate	Referred to Assignments
2014-02-14	Senate	First Reading
2014-02-14	Senate	Filed with Secretary by Sen. Melinda Bush

Type	Source
Summary	https://www.ilga.gov/legislation/BillStatus.asp?DocNum=3546&GAID=12&DocTypeID=SB&SessionID=85&GA=98
Text	https://www.ilga.gov/legislation/98/SB/09800SB3546.htm