Bill Text: IL HB1553 | 2021-2022 | 102nd General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Amends the Illinois Nuclear Facility Safety Act. Makes a technical change in a Section on legislative findings.

Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2021-04-23 - Rule 19(a) / Re-referred to Rules Committee [HB1553 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2021-HB1553-Introduced.html

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102ND GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2021 and 2022 HB1553 Introduced , by Rep. Emanuel Chris Welch SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
420 ILCS 10/3 from Ch. 111 1/2, par. 4353
Amends the Illinois Nuclear Facility Safety Act. Makes a technical change in a Section on legislative 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 Illinois Nuclear Facility Safety Act is
amended by changing Section 3 as follows:
(420 ILCS 10/3) (from Ch. 111 1/2, par. 4353)
Sec. 3. Legislative findings. The The General Assembly
finds:
(a) that Illinois has more operating nuclear power plants
than any state in the Nation;
(b) that Illinois has a commercial, away-from-reactor,
spent nuclear fuel storage facility;
(c) that on behalf of the People, the State of Illinois has
not only an interest in emergency preparedness to mitigate the
effects of accidents at nuclear facilities but also an
interest in furthering actions which reduce the likelihood and
severity of accidents at nuclear facilities;
(d) that reduction of the likelihood and severity of
accidents at nuclear facilities is in the interest of the
economic well-being of the People of the State of Illinois
because of the substantial costs of (1) repairing or replacing
nuclear facility equipment damaged or destroyed in an
accident; (2) purchasing replacement power in the event of a

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loss in generating capacity in an accident; (3) disposing of
nuclear facility equipment highly contaminated with
radioactivity in an accident; (4) decontaminating or replacing
private property damaged in an accident; (5) replacing
agricultural products contaminated with radioactivity in an
accident; (6) disruption to the economy caused by an accident;
and (7) health care for workers and private citizens injured
in an accident; and
(e) that reduction of the likelihood and severity of
accidents at nuclear facilities in Illinois protects the
health and safety of workers at nuclear facilities and private
citizens who could be injured as a result of releases of
radiation from nuclear facilities.
(Source: P.A. 86-901.)