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State of Illinois
2021 and 2022
HB1062 Introduced 2/17/2021, by Rep. Emanuel Chris Welch SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
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Amends the Pollinator-Friendly Solar Site Act. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning site management practices.
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| | HB1062 | | LRB102 03075 CMG 13088 b |
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| 1 | | AN ACT concerning conservation.
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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 Pollinator-Friendly Solar Site Act is |
| 5 | | amended by changing Section 10 as follows:
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| 6 | | (525 ILCS 55/10)
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| 7 | | Sec. 10. Site management practices. An owner of a |
| 8 | | ground-mounted solar site may follow practices that
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| 9 | | provide native perennial vegetation and foraging habitat which |
| 10 | | is beneficial to game birds, songbirds, and pollinators; and |
| 11 | | (2) reduce storm water runoff and erosion at the solar site. To |
| 12 | | the extent practicable, if establishing perennial vegetation |
| 13 | | and beneficial foraging habitat, a solar site owner or manager |
| 14 | | shall use native plant species and seed mixes that are free |
| 15 | | from noxious weed or exotic weed seeds. |
| 16 | | (Source: P.A. 100-1022, eff. 8-21-18.)
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