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Public Act 095-0741 |
HB4159 Enrolled |
LRB095 13768 CMK 39738 b |
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AN ACT concerning safety.
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Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
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represented in the General Assembly:
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Section 5. The School Code is amended by changing Sections |
10-20.19c and 34-18.15 as follows:
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(105 ILCS 5/10-20.19c) (from Ch. 122, par. 10-20.19c)
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Sec. 10-20.19c. Recycled paper and paper products and solid |
waste management .
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(a) Definitions. As used in this Section, the following |
terms shall
have the meanings indicated, unless the context |
otherwise requires:
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"Deinked stock" means paper that has been processed to |
remove inks,
clays, coatings, binders and other contaminants.
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"High grade printing and writing papers" includes offset |
printing
paper, duplicator paper, writing paper (stationery), |
tablet paper, office
paper, note pads, xerographic paper, |
envelopes, form bond including
computer paper and carbonless |
forms, book papers, bond papers, ledger paper,
book stock and |
cotton fiber papers.
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"Paper and paper products" means high grade printing and |
writing papers,
tissue products, newsprint, unbleached |
packaging and recycled paperboard.
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"Postconsumer material" means only those products |
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generated by a business
or consumer which have served their |
intended end uses, and which have been
separated or diverted |
from solid waste; wastes generated during the
production of an |
end product are excluded.
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"Recovered paper material" means paper waste generated |
after the
completion of the papermaking process, such as |
postconsumer materials,
envelope cuttings, bindery trimmings, |
printing waste, cutting and
other converting waste, butt rolls, |
and mill wrappers, obsolete inventories,
and rejected unused |
stock. "Recovered paper material", however, does not
include |
fibrous waste generated during the manufacturing process such |
as
fibers recovered from waste water or trimmings of paper |
machine rolls (mill
broke), or fibrous byproducts of |
harvesting, extraction or woodcutting
processes, or forest |
residues such as bark.
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"Recycled paperboard" includes paperboard products, |
folding cartons and
pad backings.
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"Tissue products" includes toilet tissue, paper towels, |
paper napkins,
facial tissue, paper doilies, industrial |
wipers, paper bags and brown
papers. These products shall also |
be unscented and shall not be colored.
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"Unbleached packaging" includes corrugated and fiber |
storage boxes.
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(a-5) Each school district shall periodically review its |
procurement procedures and specifications related to the |
purchase of products and supplies. Those procedures and |
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specifications must be modified as necessary to require the |
school district to seek out products and supplies that contain |
recycled materials and to ensure that purchased products and |
supplies are reusable, durable, or made from recycled |
materials, if economically and practically feasible. In |
selecting products and supplies that contain recycled |
material, preference must be given to products and supplies |
that contain the highest amount of recycled material and that |
are consistent with the effective use of the product or supply, |
if economically and practically feasible. |
(b) Wherever economically and practically feasible, as |
determined by the
school board, the school board, all public |
schools and
attendance centers within a school district, and |
their school supply stores
shall procure recycled paper and |
paper products as follows:
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(1) Beginning July 1, 2008 1992 , at least 10% of the |
total dollar value of
paper and paper products purchased by |
school boards, public schools and
attendance centers, and |
their school supply stores shall be recycled paper
and |
paper products . ;
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(2) Beginning July 1, 2011 1995 , at least 25% of the |
total dollar value of
paper and paper products purchased by |
school boards, public schools and
attendance centers, and |
their school supply stores shall be recycled paper
and |
paper products . ;
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(3) Beginning July 1, 2014 1999 , at least 50% 40% of |
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the total dollar value of
paper and paper products |
purchased by school boards, public schools and
attendance |
centers, and their school supply stores shall be recycled |
paper
and paper products . ;
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(4) Beginning July 1, 2020 2001 , at least 75% 50% of |
the total dollar value of
paper and paper products |
purchased by school boards, public schools and
attendance |
centers, and their school supply stores shall be recycled |
paper
and paper products . ;
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(5) Beginning upon the effective date of this |
amendatory Act of 1992,
all paper purchased by the board of |
education, public schools and attendance
centers for |
publication of student newspapers shall be recycled |
newsprint.
The amount purchased shall not be included in |
calculating the amounts
specified in paragraphs (1) |
through (4).
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(c) Paper and paper products purchased from private sector |
vendors
pursuant to printing contracts are not considered paper |
and paper products
for the purposes of subsection (b), unless |
purchased under contract for
the printing of student |
newspapers.
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(d)(1) Wherever economically and practically feasible, the |
recycled
paper and paper products referred to in subsection (b) |
shall contain
postconsumer or recovered paper materials as |
specified by paper category in
this subsection:
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(i) Recycled high grade printing and writing paper |
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shall contain at
least 50% recovered paper material. Such |
recovered paper material, until
July 1, 2008 1994 , shall |
consist of at least 20% deinked stock or postconsumer
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material; and beginning July 1, 2008 1994 , shall consist of |
at least 25% deinked
stock or postconsumer material; and |
beginning July 1, 2010 1996 , shall consist of
at least 30% |
deinked stock or postconsumer material; and beginning July |
1,
2012 1998 , shall consist of at least 40% deinked stock |
or postconsumer material;
and beginning July 1, 2014 2000 , |
shall consist of at least 50% deinked stock or
postconsumer |
material.
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(ii) Recycled tissue products, until July 1, 1994, |
shall contain at
least 25% postconsumer material; and |
beginning July 1, 1994, shall contain
at least 30% |
postconsumer material; and beginning July 1, 1996, shall
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contain at least 35% postconsumer material; and beginning |
July 1, 1998,
shall contain at least 40% postconsumer |
material; and beginning July 1,
2000, shall contain at |
least 45% postconsumer material.
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(iii) Recycled newsprint, until July 1, 1994, shall |
contain at
least 40% postconsumer material; and beginning |
July 1, 1994, shall contain
at least 50% postconsumer |
material; and beginning July 1, 1996, shall
contain at |
least 60% postconsumer material; and beginning July 1, |
1998,
shall contain at least 70% postconsumer material; and |
beginning July 1,
2000, shall contain at least 80% |
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postconsumer material.
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(iv) Recycled unbleached packaging, until July 1, |
1994, shall contain at
least 35% postconsumer material; and |
beginning July 1, 1994, shall contain
at least 40% |
postconsumer material; and beginning July 1, 1996, shall
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contain at least 45% postconsumer material; and beginning |
July 1, 1998,
shall contain at least 50% postconsumer |
material; and beginning July 1,
2000, shall contain at |
least 55% postconsumer material.
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(v) Recycled paperboard, until July 1, 1994, shall |
contain at
least 80% postconsumer material; and beginning |
July 1, 1994, shall contain
at least 85% postconsumer |
material; and beginning July 1, 1996, shall
contain at |
least 90% postconsumer material; and beginning July 1, |
1998,
shall contain at least 95% postconsumer material.
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(2) For the purposes of this Section, "postconsumer |
material" includes:
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(i) paper, paperboard, and fibrous waste from |
retail stores, office
buildings, homes and so forth, |
after the waste has passed through its end
usage as a |
consumer item, including used corrugated boxes, old |
newspapers,
mixed waste paper, tabulating cards, and |
used cordage; and
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(ii) all paper, paperboard, and fibrous wastes |
that are diverted or
separated from the municipal waste |
stream.
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(3) For the purposes of this Section, "recovered paper |
material" includes:
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(i) postconsumer material;
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(ii) dry paper and paperboard waste generated |
after completion of the
papermaking process (that is, |
those manufacturing operations up to and
including the |
cutting and trimming of the paper machine reel into |
smaller
rolls or rough sheets), including envelope |
cuttings, bindery trimmings, and
other paper and |
paperboard waste resulting from printing, cutting, |
forming
and other converting operations, or from bag, |
box and carton manufacturing,
and butt rolls, mill |
wrappers, and rejected unused stock; and
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(iii) finished paper and paperboard from obsolete |
inventories of paper
and paperboard manufacturers, |
merchants, wholesalers, dealers, printers,
converters |
or others.
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(e) Nothing in this Section shall be deemed to apply to art |
materials,
nor to any newspapers, magazines, text books, |
library books or other
copyrighted publications which are |
purchased or used by any school board or
any public school or |
attendance center within a school district, or which
are sold |
in any school supply store operated by or within any such |
school
or attendance center, other than newspapers written, |
edited or produced
by students enrolled in the school district, |
public school or attendance
center.
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(e-5) Each school district shall periodically review its |
procedures on solid waste reduction regarding the management of |
solid waste generated by academic, administrative, and other |
institutional functions. Those waste reduction procedures must |
be designed to, when economically and practically feasible, |
recycle the school district's waste stream, including without |
limitation landscape waste, computer paper, and white office |
paper. School districts are encouraged to have procedures that |
provide for the investigation of potential markets for other |
recyclable materials that are present in the school district's |
waste stream. The waste reduction procedures must be designed |
to achieve, before July 1, 2020, at least a 50% reduction in |
the amount of solid waste that is generated by the school |
district. |
(f) The State Board of Education, in coordination with the |
Departments of
Central Management Services and Commerce and |
Economic Opportunity, may adopt such
rules and regulations as |
it deems necessary
to assist districts in carrying out the |
provisions of this Section.
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(Source: P.A. 94-793, eff. 5-19-06.)
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(105 ILCS 5/34-18.15) (from Ch. 122, par. 34-18.15)
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Sec. 34-18.15. Recycled paper and paper products and solid |
waste management .
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(a) Definitions. As used in this Section, the following |
terms shall have
the meanings indicated, unless the context |
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otherwise requires:
|
"Deinked stock" means paper that has been processed to |
remove inks,
clays, coatings, binders and other contaminants.
|
"High grade printing and writing papers" includes offset |
printing paper,
duplicator paper, writing paper (stationery), |
tablet paper, office paper,
note pads, xerographic paper, |
envelopes, form bond including computer
paper and carbonless |
forms, book papers, bond papers, ledger paper, book
stock and |
cotton fiber papers.
|
"Paper and paper products" means high grade printing and |
writing papers,
tissue products, newsprint, unbleached |
packaging and recycled paperboard.
|
"Postconsumer material" means only those products |
generated by a business
or consumer which have served their |
intended end uses, and which have been
separated or diverted |
from solid waste; wastes generated during the
production of an |
end product are excluded.
|
"Recovered paper material" means paper waste generated |
after the
completion of the papermaking process, such as |
postconsumer materials,
envelope cuttings, bindery trimmings, |
printing waste, cutting and
other converting waste, butt rolls, |
and mill wrappers, obsolete inventories,
and rejected unused |
stock. "Recovered paper material", however, does not
include |
fibrous waste generated during the manufacturing process as |
fibers
recovered from waste water or trimmings of paper machine |
rolls (mill
broke), or fibrous byproducts of harvesting, |
|
extraction or woodcutting
processes, or forest residues such as |
bark.
|
"Recycled paperboard" includes paperboard products, |
folding cartons
and pad backings.
|
"Tissue products" includes toilet tissue, paper towels, |
paper napkins,
facial tissue, paper doilies, industrial |
wipers, paper bags and brown
papers. These products shall also |
be unscented and shall not be colored.
|
"Unbleached packaging" includes corrugated and fiber |
storage boxes.
|
(a-5) The school district shall periodically review its |
procurement procedures and specifications related to the |
purchase of products and supplies. Those procedures and |
specifications must be modified as necessary to require the |
school district to seek out products and supplies that contain |
recycled materials and to ensure that purchased products and |
supplies are reusable, durable, or made from recycled |
materials, if economically and practically feasible. In |
selecting products and supplies that contain recycled |
material, preference must be given to products and supplies |
that contain the highest amount of recycled material and that |
are consistent with the effective use of the product or supply, |
if economically and practically feasible. |
(b) Wherever economically and practically feasible, as |
determined by the
board of education, the board of education, |
all public schools and
attendance centers within the school |
|
district, and their school supply
stores shall procure recycled |
paper and paper products as follows:
|
(1) Beginning July 1, 2008 1992 , at least 10% of the |
total dollar value of
paper and paper products purchased by |
the board of education, public
schools and attendance |
centers, and their school supply stores shall be
recycled |
paper and paper products . ;
|
(2) Beginning July 1, 2011 1995 , at least 25% of the |
total dollar value of
paper and paper products purchased by |
the board of education, public
schools and attendance |
centers, and their school supply stores shall be
recycled |
paper and paper products . ;
|
(3) Beginning July 1, 2014 1999 , at least 50% 40% of |
the total dollar value of
paper and paper products |
purchased by the board of education, public
schools and |
attendance centers, and their school supply stores shall be
|
recycled paper and paper products . ;
|
(4) Beginning July 1, 2020 2001 , at least 75% 50% of |
the total dollar value of
paper and paper products |
purchased by the board of education, public
schools and |
attendance centers, and their school supply stores shall be
|
recycled paper and paper products . ;
|
(5) Beginning upon the effective date of this |
amendatory Act of 1992,
all paper purchased by the board of |
education, public schools and
attendance centers for |
publication of student newspapers shall be recycled
|
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newsprint. The amount purchased shall not be included in |
calculating the
amounts specified in paragraphs (1) |
through (4).
|
(c) Paper and paper products purchased from private sector |
vendors
pursuant to printing contracts are not considered paper |
and paper products
for the purposes of subsection (b), unless |
purchased under contract for
the printing of student |
newspapers.
|
(d)(1) Wherever economically and practically feasible, the |
recycled
paper and paper products referred to in subsection (b) |
shall contain
postconsumer or recovered paper materials as |
specified by paper category in
this subsection:
|
(i) Recycled high grade printing and writing paper |
shall contain at
least 50% recovered paper material. Such |
recovered paper material, until
July 1, 2008 1994 , shall |
consist of at least 20% deinked stock or postconsumer
|
material; and beginning July 1, 2008 1994 , shall consist of |
at least 25% deinked
stock or postconsumer material; and |
beginning July 1, 2010 1996 , shall consist of
at least 30% |
deinked stock or postconsumer material; and beginning July |
1, 2012
1998 , shall consist of at least 40% deinked stock |
or postconsumer material;
and beginning July 1, 2014 2000 , |
shall consist of at least 50% deinked stock or
postconsumer |
material.
|
(ii) Recycled tissue products, until July 1, 1994, |
shall contain at
least 25% postconsumer material; and |
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beginning July 1, 1994, shall contain
at least 30% |
postconsumer material; and beginning July 1, 1996, shall
|
contain at least 35% postconsumer material; and beginning |
July 1, 1998,
shall contain at least 40% postconsumer |
material; and beginning July 1,
2000, shall contain at |
least 45% postconsumer material.
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(iii) Recycled newsprint, until July 1, 1994, shall |
contain at
least 40% postconsumer material; and beginning |
July 1, 1994, shall contain
at least 50% postconsumer |
material; and beginning July 1, 1996, shall
contain at |
least 60% postconsumer material; and beginning July 1, |
1998,
shall contain at least 70% postconsumer material; and |
beginning July 1,
2000, shall contain at least 80% |
postconsumer material.
|
(iv) Recycled unbleached packaging, until July 1, |
1994, shall contain at
least 35% postconsumer material; and |
beginning July 1, 1994, shall contain
at least 40% |
postconsumer material; and beginning July 1, 1996, shall
|
contain at least 45% postconsumer material; and beginning |
July 1, 1998,
shall contain at least 50% postconsumer |
material; and beginning July 1,
2000, shall contain at |
least 55% postconsumer material.
|
(v) Recycled paperboard, until July 1, 1994, shall |
contain at
least 80% postconsumer material; and beginning |
July 1, 1994, shall contain
at least 85% postconsumer |
material; and beginning July 1, 1996, shall
contain at |
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least 90% postconsumer material; and beginning July 1, |
1998,
shall contain at least 95% postconsumer material.
|
(2) For the purposes of this Section, "postconsumer |
material" includes:
|
(i) paper, paperboard, and fibrous waste from |
retail stores, office
buildings, homes and so forth, |
after the waste has passed through its end
usage as a |
consumer item, including used corrugated boxes, old |
newspapers,
mixed waste paper, tabulating cards, and |
used cordage; and
|
(ii) all paper, paperboard, and fibrous wastes |
that are diverted or
separated from the municipal waste |
stream.
|
(3) For the purpose of this Section, "recovered paper |
material" includes:
|
(i) postconsumer material;
|
(ii) dry paper and paperboard waste generated |
after completion of the
papermaking process (that is, |
those manufacturing operations up to and
including the |
cutting and trimming of the paper machine reel into |
smaller
rolls or rough sheets), including envelope |
cuttings, bindery trimmings, and
other paper and |
paperboard waste resulting from printing, cutting, |
forming
and other converting operations, or from bag, |
box and carton manufacturing,
and butt rolls, mill |
wrappers, and rejected unused stock; and
|
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(iii) finished paper and paperboard from obsolete |
inventories of paper
and paperboard manufacturers, |
merchants, wholesalers, dealers, printers,
converters |
or others.
|
(e) Nothing in this Section shall be deemed to apply to art |
materials,
nor to any newspapers, magazines, text books, |
library books or other
copyrighted publications which are |
purchased or used by the board of
education or any public |
school or attendance center within the school
district, or |
which are sold in any school supply store operated by or
within |
any such school or attendance center, other than newspapers
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written, edited or produced by students enrolled in the school |
district,
public school or attendance center.
|
(e-5) The school district shall periodically review its |
procedures on solid waste reduction regarding the management of |
solid waste generated by academic, administrative, and other |
institutional functions. Those waste reduction procedures must |
be designed to, when economically and practically feasible, |
recycle the school district's waste stream, including without |
limitation landscape waste, computer paper, and white office |
paper. The school district is encouraged to have procedures |
that provide for the investigation of potential markets for |
other recyclable materials that are present in the school |
district's waste stream. The waste reduction procedures must be |
designed to achieve, before July 1, 2020, at least a 50% |
reduction in the amount of solid waste that is generated by the |
|
school district. |
(f) The State Board of Education, in coordination with the |
Departments of
Central Management Services and Commerce and |
Economic Opportunity, may adopt such
rules and regulations as |
it deems necessary
to assist districts in carrying out the |
provisions of this Section.
|
(Source: P.A. 94-793, eff. 5-19-06.)
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Section 90. The State Mandates Act is amended by adding |
Section 8.32 as follows: |
(30 ILCS 805/8.32 new) |
Sec. 8.32. Exempt mandate. Notwithstanding Sections 6 and 8 |
of this Act, no reimbursement by the State is required for the |
implementation of any mandate created by this amendatory Act of |
the 95th General Assembly. |
Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon |
becoming law. |