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93RD GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2003 and 2004
HB4567
Introduced 02/04/04, by Ricca Slone, Barbara Flynn Currie, Elizabeth Coulson SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
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Amends the Illinois Procurement Code. Provides that no person or business found by a court or
the Pollution Control Board to have committed a willful or knowing violation of
the Environmental Protection Act (instead of a certain Section of the Act) shall do business with the State
of Illinois or any State agency from the date of the order containing the
finding of violation until 5 years after that date. Effective immediately.
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A BILL FOR
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HB4567 |
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| AN ACT concerning environmental protection.
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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 Illinois Procurement Code is amended by |
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| changing and renumbering Section 50-12 as added by P.A. 93-575 |
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| as follows:
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| (30 ILCS 500/50-14)
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| Sec. 50-14
50-12. Environmental Protection Act violations.
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| (a) Unless otherwise provided, no person or business found |
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| by a court or
the Pollution Control Board to have committed a |
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| willful or knowing violation of
Section 42 of the Environmental |
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| Protection Act shall do business with the State
of Illinois or |
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| any State agency from the date of the order containing the
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| finding of violation until 5 years after that date, unless the |
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| person or
business can show that no person involved in the |
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| violation continues to have
any involvement with the business.
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| (b) A person or business otherwise barred from doing |
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| business with the
State of Illinois or any State agency under |
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| subsection (a) may be allowed to do
business with the State of |
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| Illinois or any State agency if it is shown that
there is no |
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| practicable alternative to the State to contracting with that
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| person or business.
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| (c) Every bid submitted to and contract executed by the |
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| State shall contain
a certification by the bidder or contractor |
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| that the bidder or contractor is
not barred from being awarded |
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| a contract under this Section and that the
contractor |
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| acknowledges that the contracting State agency may declare the
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| contract void if the certification completed pursuant to this |
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| subsection (c) is
false.
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| (Source: P.A. 93-575, eff. 1-1-04; revised 9-24-03.)
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| Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon |
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| becoming law.
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