Sen. Heather Steans
Filed: 3/10/2009
 
 

 




 

 		












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AMENDMENT TO SENATE BILL 1769




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    AMENDMENT NO. ______. Amend Senate Bill 1769 as follows:


 
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on page 1, lines 10 and 11, by replacing "that he or she 
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manages" with "under his or her supervision"; and
 
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on page 2, lines 5 and 6, by replacing "that he or she manages" 
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with "under his or her supervision"; and
 
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on page 2, by inserting the following immediately below line 
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17: 
 
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    "Section 12. The Child Care Act of 1969 is amended  by 
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changing Section 5.6 as follows:
 



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    (225 ILCS 10/5.6)


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    Sec. 5.6. Pesticide and lawn care product application at 
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day care centers. 

 


 






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    (a) Licensed day care centers shall abide by the 
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requirements of Sections
10.2
and
10.3 of the Structural Pest 
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Control Act.

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    (b) Notification required pursuant to Section 10.3 of the 
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Structural Pest
Control
Act may not be given more than 30 days 
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before the application of the pesticide.

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    (c) Each licensed day care center, subject to the 
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requirements of Section
10.3 of the Structural Pest Control 
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Act, must ensure that pesticides will
not
be
applied when 
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children are present at the center. Toys and other items 
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mouthed
or
handled by the children must be removed from the 
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area before pesticides are
applied.
Children must not return to 
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the treated area within 2 hours after a pesticide
application 
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or
as specified on the pesticide label, whichever time is 
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greater.
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    (d) The owners and operators of licensed day care centers 
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must ensure (i) that lawn care products will not be applied to 
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day care center grounds when children are present at the center 
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or on its grounds and (ii) that children at the center will not 
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be able to access day care center grounds that have been 
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treated with lawn care products  for at least 12 hours after 
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those grounds are treated with a lawn care product. Toys and 
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other items mouthed
or
handled by children must be removed from 
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the grounds before lawn care products are
applied. For the 
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purpose of this Section, "lawn care product" has the same 
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meaning as that term is defined in the Lawn Care Products 
 


 






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Application and Notice Act. 

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(Source: P.A. 93-381, eff. 7-1-04.)"; and


 
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on page 7, line 26, by replacing  "customer," with "customer or 
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any person whose property abuts or is adjacent to the property 
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of a customer of an applicator for hire"; and    
 
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on page 8, line 1, immediately following "sheet", by inserting 
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"and approved pesticide registration label"; and
 
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on page 10, line 19, immediately following "correspondence", by 
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inserting ", but posting on a bulletin board is not 
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sufficient"; and
 
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on page 10, line 21, by replacing "2" with "4 2"; and
 
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on page 11, lines 20 and 21, by replacing "natural lawn care 
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program" with "pesticide-free turf care program".