95TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2007 and 2008
HB0723


 
Introduced 2/6/2007, by Rep. Patrick J Verschoore
 
SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
 		














20 ILCS 3440/14
  from Ch. 127, par. 2674







    Amends the Human Skeletal Remains Protection Act to authorize the Historic Preservation Agency  and Illinois State Museum to release human skeletal remains and artifacts to a unit of local government for reburial under specified conditions. Requires the unit of local government to pay for transportation and reinterment.
















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    AN ACT concerning State government.

 
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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 Human Skeletal Remains Protection Act is 
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amended  by changing Section 14 as follows:
 



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    (20 ILCS 3440/14)  (from Ch. 127, par. 2674)



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    Sec. 14. All human skeletal remains and grave artifacts in

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unregistered graves are held in trust for the people of 
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Illinois by the
State and are under the jurisdiction of the 
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Historic Preservation Agency.
All materials collected under 
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this Act shall be maintained, with dignity
and respect, for the 
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people of the State under the care of the Illinois
State 
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Museum.


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    Nothing in this Act shall prevent the Agency or the Museum 
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from releasing remains when petitioned to do so by a unit of 
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local government requesting reinterment in a  cemetery located 
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within the unit of local government's  boundaries of the remains 
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after the Agency or Museum has determined the remains are 
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non-indigenous to the place of  discovery and of no intrinsic 
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value to warrant further study or archival preservation by 
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either the Agency or the Museum using the methods and 
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technology available at the date of the requested release. All 
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expenses to provide transportation and reinterment at the site 
 


 






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of final disposition  shall be borne by the petitioning unit of 
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local government and not the Agency, Museum, or the State of 
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Illinois. Release is for burial only, with the  remains being 
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placed for interment in a recoverable container, and  
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jurisdiction of the human remains continues to reside with the 
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Agency or the Museum after reinterment. Disinterment of the 
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remains once interred in a cemetery is governed by Illinois law 
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and requires the consent of the Agency or  the Museum, as 
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applicable.
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(Source: P.A. 86-151.)