Bill Text: IL HB4639 | 2023-2024 | 103rd General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Creates the Small Single-Use Plastic Bottle Act. Provides that, beginning July 1, 2025, hotels with 50 rooms or more and, beginning January 1, 2026, hotels with less than 50 rooms may not provide small single-use plastic bottles containing personal care products to either (i) a customer of the establishment who is staying in a sleeping room accommodation or any space within the sleeping room accommodation or (ii) a customer of the establishment who is using a bathroom shared by the public or guests. Establishes civil penalties. Defines terms.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 4-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-07-10 - Added Co-Sponsor Rep. Kelly M. Cassidy [HB4639 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2023-HB4639-Introduced.html

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103RD GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2023 and 2024 HB4639 Introduced , by Rep. Kam Buckner SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
New Act
Creates the Small Single-Use Plastic Bottle Act. Provides that, beginning July 1, 2025, hotels with 50 rooms or more and, beginning January 1, 2026, hotels with less than 50 rooms may not provide small single-use plastic bottles containing personal care products to either (i) a customer of the establishment who is staying in a sleeping room accommodation or any space within the sleeping room accommodation or (ii) a customer of the establishment who is using a bathroom shared by the public or guests. Establishes civil penalties. Defines terms.
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A BILL FOR
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AN ACT concerning regulation.
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 Small
Single-Use Plastic Bottle Act.
Section 5. Definitions. As used in this Act:
"Hotel" has the meaning given to it in the Hotel
Operators' Occupation Tax Act.
"Personal care product" means shampoo, hair conditioner,
or bath soap that is intended to be applied to or used on the
human body in the shower, bath, or any part thereof.
"Small single-use plastic bottle" means a plastic bottle
or container with less than a 6-ounce capacity that is
intended to be nonreusable by the end user.
Section 10. Small single-use plastic bottles at hotels.
(a) Beginning July 1, 2025, a hotel with 50 rooms or more
must not provide small single-use plastic bottles containing
personal care products to either a customer of the
establishment who is staying in a sleeping room accommodation
or any space within the sleeping room accommodation or a
customer of the establishment who is using a bathroom shared
by the public or guests.

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(b) Beginning January 1, 2026, a hotel with less than 50
rooms must not provide small single-use plastic bottles
containing personal care products to either a customer of the
establishment who is staying in a sleeping room accommodation
or in any space within the sleeping room accommodation or a
customer of the establishment who is using a bathroom shared
by the public or guests.
(c) A hotel may provide personal care products in small
single-use plastic bottles to a person, at no cost, upon
request, at a place other than a sleeping room accommodation,
a space within the sleeping room accommodation, or a bathroom
shared by the public or guests.
(d) A unit of local government, including a home rule
unit, must not pass an ordinance, resolution, or rule
prohibiting a hotel from providing small single-use plastic
bottles containing personal care products to customers. This
Act is a denial and limitation of home rule powers and
functions under subsection (g) of Section 6 of Article VII of
the Illinois Constitution.
Section 15. Civil penalties.
(a) A hotel that violates this Act is a liable for a
written warning for a first violation of this Act and is liable
for a civil penalty of $500 for a second or subsequent
violation. The written warning shall recite the violation and
advise that subsequent violations may result in citations and

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