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| | 104TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2025 and 2026
SB1538 Introduced 2/4/2025, by Sen. Mark L. Walker SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
| | | Amends the Renewable Energy Production District Act. Changes the definition of "renewable energy facility" to include, among other things, small modular reactors. Defines "small modular reactor". Effective immediately. |
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| | SB1538 | | LRB104 11052 RTM 21134 b |
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| 1 | | AN ACT concerning local government.
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| 2 | | Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, |
| 3 | | represented in the General Assembly:
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| 4 | | Section 5. The Renewable Energy Production District Act is |
| 5 | | amended by changing Section 5 as follows:
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| 6 | | (70 ILCS 1950/5) |
| 7 | | Sec. 5. Definitions. "Board" means the board of trustees |
| 8 | | of a renewable energy production special district created |
| 9 | | under this Act. |
| 10 | | "District" means a renewable energy production special |
| 11 | | district created under this Act. |
| 12 | | "Renewable energy facility" means a generator that is |
| 13 | | attached to a building or parcel of land and that is powered by |
| 14 | | methane gas generated from landfills, solar electric energy or |
| 15 | | wind, dedicated crops grown for electricity generation, |
| 16 | | anaerobic digestion of livestock or food processing waste, |
| 17 | | fuel cells or microturbines powered by renewable fuels, or |
| 18 | | hydroelectric energy. "Renewable energy facility" includes a |
| 19 | | small modular reactor. "Renewable fuels" does not include the |
| 20 | | incineration or burning of tires, garbage, general household, |
| 21 | | institutional, or commercial waste, industrial lunchroom or |
| 22 | | office waste, landscape waste other than tree waste, railroad |
| 23 | | crossties, utility poles, or construction or demolition |