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| | 103RD GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2023 and 2024
SB0656 Introduced 2/2/2023, by Sen. Don Harmon SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
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Amends the Safe and Hygienic Bed Act. Makes a technical change in a Section
concerning definitions.
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| 1 | | AN ACT concerning health.
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| 2 | | Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, |
| 3 | | represented in the General Assembly:
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| 4 | | Section 5. The Safe and Hygienic Bed Act is amended by |
| 5 | | changing Section 5 as follows:
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| 6 | | (410 ILCS 68/5)
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| 7 | | Sec. 5. Definitions. As used in this Act:
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| 8 | | "Attorney General" means the
the Attorney General of the |
| 9 | | State of Illinois. |
| 10 | | "Bedding" means any mattress, box spring, foundation, or |
| 11 | | studio couch made in
whole or part from new or secondhand |
| 12 | | fabric, filling material, or other
textile product or material |
| 13 | | and which can be used for sleeping or reclining
purposes.
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| 14 | | "Consumer" means a person who purchases or otherwise |
| 15 | | acquires bedding for
sleeping or reclining purposes in that |
| 16 | | person's home or business such as a
medical facility
or |
| 17 | | lodging establishment, and does not include wholesalers, |
| 18 | | retailers, or other
persons
who acquire bedding for purposes |
| 19 | | of resale or other distribution.
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| 20 | | "Department" means the Illinois Department of Public |
| 21 | | Health.
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| 22 | | "Manufacturer" means a person who makes any article of |
| 23 | | bedding in whole or
in part using new or secondhand fabric, |
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| 1 | | filling material, or other textile
product or material.
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| 2 | | "New material" means any fabric, filling material, other |
| 3 | | textile product or
material, or article
of bedding that has |
| 4 | | not been previously used for any purpose, and includes
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| 5 | | by-products of any textile or manufacturing process that are |
| 6 | | free from dirt,
insects, and other contamination.
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| 7 | | "Person" means an individual, sole proprietorship, |
| 8 | | partnership, limited
liability company, corporation, joint |
| 9 | | venture, association, trust, and any
other entity, and the |
| 10 | | officers, employees, and agents of any of them.
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| 11 | | "Renovator", "Rebuilder", and "Repairer" mean a person who |
| 12 | | repairs, makes
over, recovers, restores, sanitizes, |
| 13 | | germicidally treats, cleans, or renews
bedding.
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| 14 | | "Sanitizer" means any person who sanitizes or germicidally |
| 15 | | treats or cleans
(but does not otherwise alter) any fabric, |
| 16 | | filling material, other textile
product or material, or
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| 17 | | article of bedding for use in manufacturing or renovating |
| 18 | | bedding.
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| 19 | | "Secondhand material" means any fabric, filling material, |
| 20 | | other textile
product or material, or
article of bedding that |
| 21 | | has been previously used for any purpose or that is
derived
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| 22 | | from post-consumer or industrial waste, and that may be used |
| 23 | | in place of or in
addition to new
material in manufacturing or |
| 24 | | renovating bedding.
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| 25 | | (Source: P.A. 91-164, eff. 7-16-99.)
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