Bill Text: IL HB2569 | 2023-2024 | 103rd General Assembly | Engrossed

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Bill Title: Amends the Illinois Solid Waste Management Act. Provides that all State agencies and local governments shall consider whether compost products can be utilized in the land maintenance activity project when soliciting and reviewing bids for land maintenance activity projects. Provides that, if compost products can be used in the project, the State agency or local government must use compost products unless the compost products: (1) are not available within a reasonable period of time; (2) do not comply with existing purchasing standards; or (3) do not comply with federal or State health and safety standards. Provides that State agencies and local governments are encouraged to give priority to purchasing compost products from companies that produce compost products locally, are certified by a nationally recognized organization, and produce compost products that are derived from municipal solid waste compost programs.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 8-0)

Status: (Engrossed) 2023-05-05 - Rule 3-9(a) / Re-referred to Assignments [HB2569 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2023-HB2569-Engrossed.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 Illinois Solid Waste Management Act is
amended by changing Section 3 as follows:
(415 ILCS 20/3) (from Ch. 111 1/2, par. 7053)
Sec. 3. State agency materials recycling program.
(a) All State agencies and local governments shall
consider whether compost products can be used in the land
maintenance activity project when soliciting and reviewing
bids for land maintenance activity projects. If compost
products can be used in the project, the State agency or local
government must use compost products unless the compost
products: responsible for the maintenance of public lands in
the State shall, to the maximum extent feasible, use compost
materials in all land maintenance activities which are to be
paid with public funds.
(1) are not available within a reasonable period of
time;
(2) do not comply with existing purchasing standards;
or
(3) do not comply with federal or State health and
safety standards.

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Beginning January 1, 2024, the Department of
Transportation shall report each year to the General Assembly:
(i) the volume of compost used in State highway
construction projects;
(ii) the status of compost and compost-based products
used in State highway construction projects; and
(iii) recommendations to maximize the use of compost
as a recycled material in State highway construction
projects.
State agencies and local governments are encouraged to
give priority to purchasing compost products from companies
that produce compost products locally, are certified by a
nationally recognized organization, and produce compost
products that are derived from municipal solid waste compost
programs.
(a-5) All State agencies responsible for the maintenance
of public lands in the State shall review its procurement
specifications and policies to determine (1) if incorporating
compost materials will help reduce stormwater run-off and
increase infiltration of moisture in land maintenance
activities and (2) the current recycled content usage and
potential for additional recycled content usage by the Agency
in land maintenance activities and report to the General
Assembly by December 15, 2015.
(b) The Department of Central Management Services, in
coordination with the Agency, shall implement waste reduction

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programs, including source separation and collection, for
office wastepaper, corrugated containers, newsprint and mixed
paper, in all State buildings as appropriate and feasible.
Such waste reduction programs shall be designed to achieve
waste reductions of at least 25% of all such waste by December
31, 1995, and at least 50% of all such waste by December 31,
2000. Any source separation and collection program shall
include, at a minimum, procedures for collecting and storing
recyclable materials, bins or containers for storing
materials, and contractual or other arrangements with buyers
of recyclable materials. If market conditions so warrant, the
Department of Central Management Services, in coordination
with the Agency, may modify programs developed pursuant to
this Section.
The Department of Commerce and Community Affairs (now
Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity) shall conduct
waste categorization studies of all State facilities for
calendar years 1991, 1995 and 2000. Such studies shall be
designed to assist the Department of Central Management
Services to achieve the waste reduction goals established in
this subsection.
(c) Each State agency shall, upon consultation with the
Agency, periodically review its procurement procedures and
specifications related to the purchase of products or
supplies. Such procedures and specifications shall be modified
as necessary to require the procuring agency to seek out

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products and supplies that contain recycled materials, and to
ensure that purchased products or supplies are reusable,
durable or made from recycled materials whenever economically
and practically feasible. In choosing among products or
supplies that contain recycled material, consideration shall
be given to products and supplies with the highest recycled
material content that is consistent with the effective and
efficient use of the product or supply.
(d) Wherever economically and practically feasible, the
Department of Central Management Services shall procure
recycled paper and paper products as follows:
(1) Beginning July 1, 1989, at least 10% of the total
dollar value of paper and paper products purchased by the
Department of Central Management Services shall be
recycled paper and paper products.
(2) Beginning July 1, 1992, at least 25% of the total
dollar value of paper and paper products purchased by the
Department of Central Management Services shall be
recycled paper and paper products.
(3) Beginning July 1, 1996, at least 40% of the total
dollar value of paper and paper products purchased by the
Department of Central Management Services shall be
recycled paper and paper products.
(4) Beginning July 1, 2000, at least 50% of the total
dollar value of paper and paper products purchased by the
Department of Central Management Services shall be

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recycled paper and paper products.
(e) Paper and paper products purchased from private
vendors pursuant to printing contracts are not considered
paper products for the purposes of subsection (d). However,
the Department of Central Management Services shall report to
the General Assembly on an annual basis the total dollar value
of printing contracts awarded to private sector vendors that
included the use of recycled paper.
(f)(1) Wherever economically and practically feasible,
the recycled paper and paper products referred to in
subsection (d) shall contain postconsumer or recovered
paper materials as specified by paper category in this
subsection:
(i) Recycled high grade printing and writing paper
shall contain at least 50% recovered paper material.
Such recovered paper material, until July 1, 1994,
shall consist of at least 20% deinked stock or
postconsumer material; and beginning July 1, 1994,
shall consist of at least 25% deinked stock or
postconsumer material; and beginning July 1, 1996,
shall consist of at least 30% deinked stock or
postconsumer material; and beginning July 1, 1998,
shall consist of at least 40% deinked stock or
postconsumer material; and beginning July 1, 2000,
shall consist of at least 50% deinked stock or
postconsumer material.

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(ii) Recycled tissue products, until July 1, 1994,
shall contain at least 25% postconsumer material; and
beginning July 1, 1994, shall contain at least 30%
postconsumer material; and beginning July 1, 1996,
shall contain at least 35% postconsumer material; and
beginning July 1, 1998, shall contain at least 40%
postconsumer material; and beginning July 1, 2000,
shall contain at least 45% postconsumer material.
(iii) Recycled newsprint, until July 1, 1994,
shall contain at least 40% postconsumer material; and
beginning July 1, 1994, shall contain at least 50%
postconsumer material; and beginning July 1, 1996,
shall contain at least 60% postconsumer material; and
beginning July 1, 1998, shall contain at least 70%
postconsumer material; and beginning July 1, 2000,
shall contain at least 80% postconsumer material.
(iv) Recycled unbleached packaging, until July 1,
1994, shall contain at least 35% postconsumer
material; and beginning July 1, 1994, shall contain at
least 40% postconsumer material; and beginning July 1,
1996, shall contain at least 45% postconsumer
material; and beginning July 1, 1998, shall contain at
least 50% postconsumer material; and beginning July 1,
2000, shall contain at least 55% postconsumer
material.
(v) Recycled paperboard, until July 1, 1994, shall

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contain at least 80% postconsumer material; and
beginning July 1, 1994, shall contain at least 85%
postconsumer material; and beginning July 1, 1996,
shall contain at least 90% postconsumer material; and
beginning July 1, 1998, shall contain at least 95%
postconsumer material.
(2) For the purposes of this Section, "postconsumer
material" includes:
(i) paper, paperboard, and fibrous wastes from
retail stores, office buildings, homes, and so forth,
after the waste has passed through its end usage as a
consumer item, including used corrugated boxes, old
newspapers, mixed waste paper, tabulating cards, and
used cordage; and
(ii) all paper, paperboard, and fibrous wastes
that are diverted or separated from the municipal
solid waste stream.
(3) For the purposes of this Section, "recovered paper
material" includes:
(i) postconsumer material;
(ii) dry paper and paperboard waste generated
after completion of the papermaking process (that is,
those manufacturing operations up to and including the
cutting and trimming of the paper machine reel into
smaller rolls or rough sheets), including envelope
cuttings, bindery trimmings, and other paper and

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paperboard waste resulting from printing, cutting,
forming, and other converting operations, or from bag,
box and carton manufacturing, and butt rolls, mill
wrappers, and rejected unused stock; and
(iii) finished paper and paperboard from obsolete
inventories of paper and paperboard manufacturers,
merchants, wholesalers, dealers, printers, converters,
or others.
(g) The Department of Central Management Services may
adopt regulations to carry out the provisions and purposes of
this Section.
(h) Every State agency shall, in its procurement
documents, specify that, whenever economically and practically
feasible, a product to be procured must consist, wholly or in
part, of recycled materials, or be recyclable or reusable in
whole or in part. When applicable, if state guidelines are not
already prescribed, State agencies shall follow USEPA
guidelines for federal procurement.
(i) All State agencies shall cooperate with the Department
of Central Management Services in carrying out this Section.
The Department of Central Management Services may enter into
cooperative purchasing agreements with other governmental
units in order to obtain volume discounts, or for other
reasons in accordance with the Governmental Joint Purchasing
Act, or in accordance with the Intergovernmental Cooperation
Act if governmental units of other states or the federal

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government are involved.
(j) The Department of Central Management Services shall
submit an annual report to the General Assembly concerning its
implementation of the State's collection and recycled paper
procurement programs. This report shall include a description
of the actions that the Department of Central Management
Services has taken in the previous fiscal year to implement
this Section. This report shall be submitted on or before
November 1 of each year.
(k) The Department of Central Management Services, in
cooperation with all other appropriate departments and
agencies of the State, shall institute whenever economically
and practically feasible the use of re-refined motor oil in
all State-owned motor vehicles and the use of remanufactured
and retread tires whenever such use is practical, beginning no
later than July 1, 1992.
(l) (Blank).
(m) The Department of Central Management Services, in
coordination with the Department of Commerce and Community
Affairs (now Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity),
has implemented an aluminum can recycling program in all State
buildings within 270 days of the effective date of this
amendatory Act of 1997. The program provides for (1) the
collection and storage of used aluminum cans in bins or other
appropriate containers made reasonably available to occupants
and visitors of State buildings and (2) the sale of used

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aluminum cans to buyers of recyclable materials.
Proceeds from the sale of used aluminum cans shall be
deposited into I-CYCLE accounts maintained in the Facilities
Management Revolving Fund and, subject to appropriation, shall
be used by the Department of Central Management Services and
any other State agency to offset the costs of implementing the
aluminum can recycling program under this Section.
All State agencies having an aluminum can recycling
program in place shall continue with their current plan. If a
State agency has an existing recycling program in place,
proceeds from the aluminum can recycling program may be
retained and distributed pursuant to that program, otherwise
all revenue resulting from these programs shall be forwarded
to Central Management Services, I-CYCLE for placement into the
appropriate account within the Facilities Management Revolving
Fund, minus any operating costs associated with the program.
(Source: P.A. 101-636, eff. 6-10-20; 102-444, eff. 8-20-21.)