Bill Text: IL HB5847 | 2011-2012 | 97th General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Amends the Fire Sprinkler Contractor Licensing Act. Provides that a municipality, county, or township may not mandate that a fire sprinkler systems is installed in any newly constructed single-family residence. Provides that a municipality, county, or township shall mandate that a residential home builder must offer to each of the residential home builder's clients the option to install a fire sprinkler system in the newly constructed single-family residence. Pre-empts home rule.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Failed) 2013-01-08 - Session Sine Die [HB5847 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2011-HB5847-Introduced.html

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97TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2011 and 2012 HB5847 Introduced 2/16/2012, by Rep. Michael Unes SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
225 ILCS 317/48 new
Amends the Fire Sprinkler Contractor Licensing Act. Provides that a municipality, county, or township may not mandate that a fire sprinkler systems is installed in any newly constructed single-family residence. Provides that a municipality, county, or township shall mandate that a residential home builder must offer to each of the residential home builder's clients the option to install a fire sprinkler system in the newly constructed single-family residence. Pre-empts home rule.
LRB097 20476 CEL 66127 b
HOME RULE NOTE ACT MAY APPLY
A BILL FOR
HB5847 LRB097 20476 CEL 66127 b
AN ACT concerning regulation.
Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
represented in the General Assembly:
Section 5. The Fire Sprinkler Contractor Licensing Act is
amended by adding Section 48 as follows:
(225 ILCS 317/48 new)
Sec. 48. Fire sprinkler installation; residential homes. A
municipality, county, or township may not mandate that a fire
sprinkler systems is installed in any newly constructed
single-family residence.
A municipality, county, or township shall mandate that a
residential home builder must offer to each of the residential
home builder's clients the option to install a fire sprinkler
system in the newly constructed single-family residence.
A home rule unit may not regulate the installation of fire
sprinkler systems in a newly constructed single-family
residence in a manner inconsistent with this Section. This
Section is a limitation under subsection (i) of Section 6 of
Article VII of the Illinois Constitution on the concurrent
exercise by home rule units of powers and functions exercised
by the State.