Bill Text: IL HB3427 | 2015-2016 | 99th General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Amends the Illinois Pesticide Act. Provides that no person, other than a pesticide applicator licensed under this Act, may apply pesticide within any building or on the grounds of any school, other than a regional agricultural science and technology education center. Provides that no person shall apply a lawn care pesticide on the grounds of any public or private preschool or public or private school with students in grade 12 or lower, except that an emergency application of a lawn care pesticide may be made to eliminate a threat to human health.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2015-03-27 - Rule 19(a) / Re-referred to Rules Committee [HB3427 Detail]
Download: Illinois-2015-HB3427-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 Illinois Pesticide Act is amended by adding | |||||||||||||||||||
5 | Section 14.5 as follows:
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6 | (415 ILCS 60/14.5 new) | |||||||||||||||||||
7 | Sec. 14.5. Use of pesticides on school grounds. | |||||||||||||||||||
8 | (a) No person, other than a pesticide applicator licensed | |||||||||||||||||||
9 | under this Act, may apply pesticide within any building or on | |||||||||||||||||||
10 | the grounds of any school, other than a regional agricultural | |||||||||||||||||||
11 | science and technology education center. This Section shall not | |||||||||||||||||||
12 | apply in the case of an emergency application of pesticide to | |||||||||||||||||||
13 | eliminate an immediate threat to human health where it is | |||||||||||||||||||
14 | impractical to obtain the services of any such applicator | |||||||||||||||||||
15 | provided such emergency application does not involve a | |||||||||||||||||||
16 | restricted use pesticide. | |||||||||||||||||||
17 | (b) No person shall apply a lawn care pesticide on the | |||||||||||||||||||
18 | grounds of any public or private preschool or public or private | |||||||||||||||||||
19 | school with students in grade 12 or lower, except that an | |||||||||||||||||||
20 | emergency application of a lawn care pesticide may be made to | |||||||||||||||||||
21 | eliminate a threat to human health, as determined by local | |||||||||||||||||||
22 | health departments, the Director of Public Health, the Director | |||||||||||||||||||
23 | of the Environmental Protection Agency or, in the case of a |
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1 | public school, the school superintendent.
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