Bill Text: IL HB0702 | 2013-2014 | 98th General Assembly | Enrolled

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Bill Title: Amends the Environmental Protection Act. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the short title.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Passed) 2013-08-16 - Public Act . . . . . . . . . 98-0366 [HB0702 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2013-HB0702-Enrolled.html

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AN ACT concerning safety.
Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
represented in the General Assembly:
Section 5. The Environmental Protection Act is amended by
changing Section 3.360 as follows:
(415 ILCS 5/3.360) (was 415 ILCS 5/3.84)
Sec. 3.360. Potentially infectious medical waste.
(a) "Potentially infectious medical waste" means the
following types of waste generated in connection with the
diagnosis, treatment (i.e., provision of medical services), or
immunization of human beings or animals; research pertaining to
the provision of medical services; or the production or testing
of biologicals:
(1) Cultures and stocks. This waste shall include but
not be limited to cultures and stocks of agents infectious
to humans, and associated biologicals; cultures from
medical or pathological laboratories; cultures and stocks
of infectious agents from research and industrial
laboratories; wastes from the production of biologicals;
discarded live or attenuated vaccines; or culture dishes
and devices used to transfer, inoculate, or mix cultures.
(2) Human pathological wastes. This waste shall
include tissue, organs, and body parts (except teeth and

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the contiguous structures of bone and gum); body fluids
that are removed during surgery, autopsy, or other medical
procedures; or specimens of body fluids and their
containers.
(3) Human blood and blood products. This waste shall
include discarded human blood, blood components (e.g.,
serum and plasma), or saturated material containing free
flowing blood or blood components.
(4) Used sharps. This waste shall include but not be
limited to discarded sharps used in animal or human patient
care, medical research, or clinical or pharmaceutical
laboratories; hypodermic, intravenous, or other medical
needles; hypodermic or intravenous syringes; Pasteur
pipettes; scalpel blades; or blood vials. This waste shall
also include but not be limited to other types of broken or
unbroken glass (including slides and cover slips) in
contact with infectious agents.
(5) Animal waste. Animal waste means discarded
materials, including carcasses, body parts, body fluids,
blood, or bedding originating from animals inoculated
during research, production of biologicals, or
pharmaceutical testing with agents infectious to humans.
(6) Isolation waste. This waste shall include
discarded materials contaminated with blood, excretions,
exudates, and secretions from humans that are isolated to
protect others from highly communicable diseases. "Highly

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communicable diseases" means those diseases identified by
the Board in rules adopted under subsection (e) of Section
56.2 of this Act.
(7) Unused sharps. This waste shall include but not be
limited to the following unused, discarded sharps:
hypodermic, intravenous, or other needles; hypodermic or
intravenous syringes; or scalpel blades.
(b) Potentially infectious medical waste does not include:
(1) waste generated as general household waste;
(2) waste (except for sharps) for which the infectious
potential has been eliminated by treatment; or
(3) sharps that meet both of the following conditions:
(A) the infectious potential has been eliminated
from the sharps by treatment; and
(B) the sharps are rendered unrecognizable by
treatment; or .
(4) sharps that are managed in accordance with the
following requirements:
(A) the infectious potential is eliminated from
the sharps by treatment at a facility that is permitted
by the Agency for the treatment of potentially
infectious medical waste;
(B) the sharps are certified by the treatment
facility as non-special waste in accordance with
Section 22.48 of this Act;
(C) the sharps are packaged at the treatment

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facility the same as required under Board rules for
potentially infectious medical waste;
(D) the sharps are transported under the custody of
the treatment facility to a landfill permitted by the
Agency under Section 21 of this Act to accept municipal
waste for disposal; and
(E) the activities in subparagraphs (A) through
(D) of this paragraph (4) are authorized in, and
conducted in accordance with, a permit issued by the
Agency to the treatment facility.
(Source: P.A. 92-574, eff. 6-26-02.)