Bill Title: Amends the Environmental Protection Act. Changes the categories of waste that qualify for exemptions from State and local tipping fees and Subtitle D management fees. Amends the Solid Waste Planning and Recycling Act. Requires each county to report its recycling and composting rate and its disposal rate to the Environmental Protection Agency. Establishes a recycling and composting goal that each county waste management plan must satisfy. Amends the Illinois Solid Waste Management Act. Authorizes the Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity to prepare a resource management plan that contains certain information about recycling and composting in the State. Authorizes the Department to provide grants to counties, municipalities with a population of 1,000,000 or more, and municipal joint action agencies in order to help achieve the recycling and composting goals. Effective immediately.

Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 4)

Status: (Passed) 2012-07-26 - Public Act . . . . . . . . . 97-0853 [HB4986 Detail]

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Bill Drafts

Revision	Date	Format	Source	View
Chaptered	2012-07-26	HTML/Text	Link	View
Enrolled	2012-05-30	HTML/Text	Link	View
Amended	2012-04-19	HTML/Text	Link	View
Engrossed	2012-03-28	HTML/Text	Link	View
Amended	2012-03-26	HTML/Text	Link	View
Amended	2012-03-21	HTML/Text	Link	View
Amended	2012-03-05	HTML/Text	Link	View
Introduced	2012-02-06	HTML/Text	Link	View

Amendments

Amendment	Date	Disposition	Format	Source	View
No bill amendments currently on file for Illinois HB4986

Supplemental Documents

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No supplemental documents for Illinois HB4986 currently on file.