94TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2005 and 2006
HB0137

 

Introduced 1/11/2005, by Rep. Edward J. Acevedo

 

SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
 
410 ILCS 68/5

    Amends the Safe and Hygienic Bed Act. Makes a stylistic change in a Section concerning definitions.


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A BILL FOR

 

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1     AN ACT concerning health.
 
2     Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
3 represented in the General Assembly:
 
4     Section 5. The Safe and Hygienic Bed Act is amended by
5 changing Section 5 as follows:
 
6     (410 ILCS 68/5)
7     Sec. 5. Definitions. As used In this Act:
8     "Attorney General" means the Attorney General of the State
9 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.
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 lodging
17 establishment, and does not include wholesalers, retailers, or
18 other persons who acquire bedding for purposes of resale or
19 other distribution.
20     "Department" means the Illinois Department of Public
21 Health.
22     "Manufacturer" means a person who makes any article of
23 bedding in whole or in part using new or secondhand fabric,
24 filling material, or other textile product or material.
25     "New material" means any fabric, filling material, other
26 textile product or material, or article of bedding that has not
27 been previously used for any purpose, and includes by-products
28 of any textile or manufacturing process that are free from
29 dirt, insects, and other contamination.
30     "Person" means an individual, sole proprietorship,
31 partnership, limited liability company, corporation, joint
32 venture, association, trust, and any other entity, and the

 

 

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1 officers, employees, and agents of any of them.
2     "Renovator", "Rebuilder", and "Repairer" mean a person who
3 repairs, makes over, recovers, restores, sanitizes,
4 germicidally treats, cleans, or renews bedding.
5     "Sanitizer" means any person who sanitizes or germicidally
6 treats or cleans (but does not otherwise alter) any fabric,
7 filling material, other textile product or material, or article
8 of bedding for use in manufacturing or renovating bedding.
9     "Secondhand material" means any fabric, filling material,
10 other textile product or material, or article of bedding that
11 has been previously used for any purpose or that is derived
12 from post-consumer or industrial waste, and that may be used in
13 place of or in addition to new material in manufacturing or
14 renovating bedding.
15 (Source: P.A. 91-164, eff. 7-16-99.)