Bill Text: IL HB1542 | 2019-2020 | 101st General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Amends the Hazardous Materials Emergency Act. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the findings.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2019-03-29 - Rule 19(a) / Re-referred to Rules Committee [HB1542 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2019-HB1542-Introduced.html

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101ST GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2019 and 2020 HB1542 Introduced , by Rep. Sam Yingling SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
430 ILCS 50/1 from Ch. 127, par. 1251
Amends the Hazardous Materials Emergency Act. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the findings.
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A BILL FOR
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AN ACT concerning safety.
Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
represented in the General Assembly:
Section 5. The Hazardous Materials Emergency Act is amended
by changing Section 1 as follows:
(430 ILCS 50/1) (from Ch. 127, par. 1251)
Sec. 1. It is the finding of the General Assembly:
(a) That That the use, transportation, storage and
manufacture of hazardous materials creates a substantial risk
that accidents will occur involving such hazardous materials;
(b) That accidents involving hazardous materials create an
unreasonable risk to the health, safety and welfare of the
People of Illinois;
(c) That the federal government promulgates regulations
for the interstate transportation of hazardous materials, but
that the People of Illinois can benefit by having such
precautions as those included in federal regulation extended to
intrastate transportation and other activities which might
result in an accident involving hazardous materials;
(d) That often the emergency agency which first responds to
an accident involving a hazardous material is unable to
determine the nature of the material and is unfamiliar with
precautionary measures which must be exercised in handling the

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material, with resulting use of incorrect emergency procedures
endangering both members of the emergency agency and the
public; and
(e) That response to hazardous materials emergencies can be
accomplished more rapidly and with greater efficiency if one
agency of State government with the necessary communications
network is designated as the central reporting agency in case
of emergency.
(Source: P.A. 79-1442.)