HB1585eng 94TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY

HB1585 Engrossed LRB094 10116 RSP 40377 b

AN ACT concerning safety.

Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly:

Section 1. Short title. This Act may be cited as the Arsenic in School Playgrounds Act.

Section 5. Purpose. The General Assembly finds that wooden playground equipment in this State is often treated with the pesticide chromated copper arsenate, which acts as a chemical preservative that protects wood from rotting due to insects and microbial agents, and that the children of this State may be exposed to the arsenic in chromated copper arsenate when the children play on playground equipment treated with this compound.

Section 10. New playground equipment. On and after January 1, 2006 no unit of local government or school district within this State shall construct or install any new playground equipment treated or containing the pesticide chromated copper arsenate.