Full Text of SB0656 103rd General Assembly
SB0656 103RD GENERAL ASSEMBLY
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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.
| | 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
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.
| | 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.
| | 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, |
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| | 1 | | filling material, or other textile
product or material.
| | 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
| | 5 | | by-products of any textile or manufacturing process that are | | 6 | | free from dirt,
insects, and other contamination.
| | 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.
| | 11 | | "Renovator", "Rebuilder", and "Repairer" mean a person who | | 12 | | repairs, makes
over, recovers, restores, sanitizes, | | 13 | | germicidally treats, cleans, or renews
bedding.
| | 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
| | 17 | | article of bedding for use in manufacturing or renovating | | 18 | | bedding.
| | 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
| | 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.
| | 25 | | (Source: P.A. 91-164, eff. 7-16-99.)
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