Bill Text: IL SB1609 | 2025-2026 | 104th General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Amends the Environmental Protection Act. Provides that, for the purpose of ensuring that there is appropriated to the Agency on an annual basis the funding necessary to address the risk to public health and safety caused by emerging drinking water contaminants that have the potential to threaten drinking water supplies in the State, there is hereby appropriated, on a continuing annual basis in each fiscal year, from the General Revenue Fund to the Agency, the amount, if any, by which the total appropriation to the Agency from the General Revenue Fund for that fiscal year for that express purpose is less than $5,000,000.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2025-02-11 - Assigned to Appropriations [SB1609 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2025-SB1609-Introduced.html

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104TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2025 and 2026 SB1609 Introduced 2/4/2025, by Sen. Mike Simmons SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
415 ILCS 5/19.12 new
Amends the Environmental Protection Act. Provides that, for the purpose of ensuring that there is appropriated to the Agency on an annual basis the funding necessary to address the risk to public health and safety caused by emerging drinking water contaminants that have the potential to threaten drinking water supplies in the State, there is hereby appropriated, on a continuing annual basis in each fiscal year, from the General Revenue Fund to the Agency, the amount, if any, by which the total appropriation to the Agency from the General Revenue Fund for that fiscal year for that express purpose is less than $5,000,000.
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A BILL FOR
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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
adding Section 19.12 as follows:
(415 ILCS 5/19.12 new)
Sec. 19.12. Continuing appropriation to address emerging
drinking water contaminants. For the purpose of ensuring that
there is appropriated to the Agency on an annual basis the
funding necessary to address the risk to public health and
safety caused by emerging drinking water contaminants that
have the potential to threaten drinking water supplies in the
State, there is hereby appropriated, on a continuing annual
basis in each fiscal year, from the General Revenue Fund to the
Agency, the amount, if any, by which the total appropriation
to the Agency from the General Revenue Fund for that fiscal
year for that express purpose is less than $5,000,000.