Bill Text: IL HB3215 | 2015-2016 | 99th General Assembly | Veto Message
Bill Title: Amends the Illinois Oil and Gas Act. In provisions concerning hearings with regard to a finding of the Department of Natural Resources' that a well has been abandoned or is leaking salt water, oil, gas, or other deleterious substances into any fresh water formation or onto the surface of the land in the vicinity of the well, provides that the notice of hearing shall consist of written notice served to the permittee personally or by certified mail sent to the permittee's last known address. Provides that if the Department determines that the permittee resides or has gone out of this State or, on due inquiry, cannot be found or is concealed within the State so that process cannot be served upon him or her, the Department may cause publication to be made in some newspaper published in the county in which the well is located, and, if there is no newspaper published in that county, then the publication shall be in a newspaper published in the adjoining county in this State having a circulation in the county in which action is pending. Provides that, in addition, the Department may cause notice of hearing to be posted at the tank battery located on the lease containing the well at issue for at least 30 days prior to the scheduled date of the hearing. Requires the publication to contain notice of the pendency of the hearing, the name of the permittee, the name of the well, the names of the parties to be served by publication, and the date on or after which the default may be entered against the party. Requires that the Department also, within 10 days of the first publication of the notice of posting at the tank battery, send a copy of the publication by mail to the permittee's last known place of residence.
Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 3)
Status: (Failed) 2015-09-09 - Total Veto Stands - No Positive Action Taken [HB3215 Detail]
Download: Illinois-2015-HB3215-Veto_Message.html
August 14, 2015
To the Honorable Members of
The Illinois House of Representatives
99th General Assembly:
Today I veto House Bill 3215 from the 99th General Assembly for technical reasons. The bill makes changes to House Bill 218, which concerns penalties for cannabis, �[i]f and only if House Bill 218 . . . becomes law in the form in which it passed the House on April 23, 2015.� I thank the sponsors of House Bills 218 and 3215 for their diligent work on these bills.
I returned House Bill 218 with specific recommendations for change. Included among those changes are the changes incorporated by House Bill 3215. If the General Assembly concurs in those changes, House Bill 3215 would be moot and, by its own terms, inoperative.
Therefore, pursuant to Section 9(b) of Article IV of the Illinois Constitution of 1970, I hereby return House Bill 3215, �AN ACT concerning regulation�, with the foregoing objections, vetoed in its entirety.
Sincerely,
Bruce Rauner
GOVERNOR
