Bill Text: IL SB0129 | 2015-2016 | 99th General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Amends the Illinois Conservation Enhancement Act. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the legislative purpose and policy of the Act.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2015-04-21 - Re-referred to Assignments [SB0129 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2015-SB0129-Introduced.html

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99TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2015 and 2016 SB0129 Introduced 1/28/2015, by Sen. John J. Cullerton SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
505 ILCS 35/1-2 from Ch. 5, par. 2401-2
Amends the Illinois Conservation Enhancement Act. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the legislative purpose and policy of the Act.
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A BILL FOR
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AN ACT concerning agriculture.
Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
represented in the General Assembly:
Section 5. The Illinois Conservation Enhancement Act is
amended by changing Section 1-2 as follows:
(505 ILCS 35/1-2) (from Ch. 5, par. 2401-2)
Sec. 1-2. Purpose and policy. This Act creates 2 major
programs, the the Save Illinois Topsoil Program and the
Illinois Natural Resource Enhancement Program. It is the
purpose of this Act that certain marginal agricultural land be
kept or taken out of crop production or pasture to protect soil
and water quality and to protect and support fish and wildlife
habitat. It is State policy to encourage the retirement of
marginal, highly erodible agricultural land, particularly land
adjacent to public waters and drainage systems, from crop
production and to reestablish a cover of perennial vegetation
in order to conserve, protect and enhance important water and
land resources.
(Source: P.A. 85-960; 86-1475.)