Illinois House Bill 2121

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Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: Introduced on February 3 2023 - 25% progression
Action: 2023-03-27 - House Floor Amendment No. 1 Rule 19(c) / Re-referred to Rules Committee
Pending: House Rules Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [HTML]

Amends the Fireworks Regulation Act of Illinois and the Pyrotechnic Use Act. Provides that "fireworks" and "consumer fireworks" do not include handheld or ground-based sparklers that are nonexplosive and nonaerial, sometimes producing a crackling or whistling effect, and containing 75 grams or less of pyrotechnic composition per tube or a total of 500 grams or less for multiple tubes (rather than only sparklers) or wood stick or wire sparklers containing not more than 100 grams of pyrotechnic mixture per item. Effective January 1, 2024.

FIREWORKS REGULATION-SPARKLERS

Rep. Robert Rita [D]

Rep. Joe Sosnowski [R]

Rep. Dave Severin [R]

Rep. Jonathan Carroll [D]

Date	Chamber	Action
2023-03-27	House	House Floor Amendment No. 1 Rule 19(c) / Re-referred to Rules Committee
2023-03-27	House	Rule 19(a) / Re-referred to Rules Committee
2023-03-23	House	House Floor Amendment No. 1 Recommends Be Adopted Consumer Protection Committee; 006-002-000
2023-03-22	House	Held on Calendar Order of Second Reading - Short Debate
2023-03-22	House	Second Reading - Short Debate
2023-03-07	House	House Floor Amendment No. 1 Rules Refers to Consumer Protection Committee
2023-03-06	House	Added Co-Sponsor Rep. Jonathan Carroll
2023-03-06	House	House Floor Amendment No. 1 Referred to Rules Committee
2023-03-06	House	House Floor Amendment No. 1 Filed with Clerk by Rep. Robert "Bob" Rita
2023-03-01	House	Placed on Calendar 2nd Reading - Short Debate
2023-02-28	House	Do Pass / Short Debate Consumer Protection Committee; 007-002-000
2023-02-21	House	Added Co-Sponsor Rep. Dave Severin
2023-02-21	House	Added Co-Sponsor Rep. Joe C. Sosnowski
2023-02-15	House	Assigned to Consumer Protection Committee
2023-02-07	House	Referred to Rules Committee
2023-02-07	House	First Reading
2023-02-03	House	Filed with the Clerk by Rep. Robert "Bob" Rita

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
425	30	2	Amended Code	Citation Text
425	35	1	Amended Code	Citation Text

Type	Source
Summary	https://www.ilga.gov/legislation/BillStatus.asp?DocNum=2121&GAID=17&DocTypeID=HB&SessionID=112&GA=103
Text	https://www.ilga.gov/legislation/103/HB/10300HB2121.htm
Amendment	https://www.ilga.gov/legislation/103/HB/10300HB2121ham001.htm