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95TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2007 and 2008 HB0723
Introduced 2/6/2007, by Rep. Patrick J Verschoore SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED: |
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20 ILCS 3440/14 |
from Ch. 127, par. 2674 |
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Amends the Human Skeletal Remains Protection Act to authorize the Historic Preservation Agency and Illinois State Museum to release human skeletal remains and artifacts to a unit of local government for reburial under specified conditions. Requires the unit of local government to pay for transportation and reinterment.
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A BILL FOR
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HB0723 |
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LRB095 09122 RCE 29315 b |
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| AN ACT concerning State government.
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| Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
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| represented in the General Assembly:
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| Section 5. The Human Skeletal Remains Protection Act is |
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| amended by changing Section 14 as follows:
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| (20 ILCS 3440/14) (from Ch. 127, par. 2674)
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| Sec. 14. All human skeletal remains and grave artifacts in
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| unregistered graves are held in trust for the people of |
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| Illinois by the
State and are under the jurisdiction of the |
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| Historic Preservation Agency.
All materials collected under |
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| this Act shall be maintained, with dignity
and respect, for the |
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| people of the State under the care of the Illinois
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| Museum.
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| Nothing in this Act shall prevent the Agency or the Museum |
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| from releasing remains when petitioned to do so by a unit of |
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| local government requesting reinterment in a cemetery located |
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| within the unit of local government's boundaries of the remains |
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| after the Agency or Museum has determined the remains are |
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| non-indigenous to the place of discovery and of no intrinsic |
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| value to warrant further study or archival preservation by |
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| either the Agency or the Museum using the methods and |
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| technology available at the date of the requested release. All |
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| expenses to provide transportation and reinterment at the site |