Bill Text: IL HB2672 | 2019-2020 | 101st General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Amends the Liquefied Petroleum Gas Regulation Act. Provides that no legal action shall be commenced or maintained against any person engaged in the business of selling at retail, supplying, handling, or transporting liquefied petroleum gas in this State if the alleged injury, damage, or loss was caused by: (1) the alteration, modification, or repair of liquefied petroleum gas equipment or a liquefied petroleum gas appliance if done without the knowledge and consent of the liquefied petroleum gas seller, supplier, handler, or transporter; or (2) the use of liquefied petroleum gas equipment or a liquefied petroleum gas appliance in a manner or for a purpose other than that for which the equipment or appliance was intended and that could not reasonably have been expected.
Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Republican 3)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2019-03-29 - Rule 19(a) / Re-referred to Rules Committee [HB2672 Detail]
Download: Illinois-2019-HB2672-Introduced.html
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| 1 | AN ACT concerning safety.
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| 2 | Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
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| 3 | represented in the General Assembly:
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| 4 | Section 5. The Liquefied Petroleum Gas Regulation Act is | |||||||||||||||||||
| 5 | amended by adding Section 4.5 as follows:
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| 6 | (430 ILCS 5/4.5 new) | |||||||||||||||||||
| 7 | Sec. 4.5. Liability limited. No legal action shall be | |||||||||||||||||||
| 8 | commenced or maintained against any person engaged in the | |||||||||||||||||||
| 9 | business of selling at retail, supplying, handling, or | |||||||||||||||||||
| 10 | transporting liquefied petroleum gas in this State if the | |||||||||||||||||||
| 11 | alleged injury, damage, or loss was caused by: | |||||||||||||||||||
| 12 | (1) the alteration, modification, or repair of | |||||||||||||||||||
| 13 | liquefied petroleum gas equipment or a liquefied petroleum | |||||||||||||||||||
| 14 | gas appliance if done without the knowledge and consent of | |||||||||||||||||||
| 15 | the liquefied petroleum gas seller, supplier, handler, or | |||||||||||||||||||
| 16 | transporter; or | |||||||||||||||||||
| 17 | (2) the use of liquefied petroleum gas equipment or a | |||||||||||||||||||
| 18 | liquefied petroleum gas appliance in a manner or for a | |||||||||||||||||||
| 19 | purpose other than that for which the equipment or | |||||||||||||||||||
| 20 | appliance was intended and that could not reasonably have | |||||||||||||||||||
| 21 | been expected.
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