Full Text of SB2174 93rd General Assembly
SB2174eng 93RD GENERAL ASSEMBLY
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| AN ACT concerning boards and commissions.
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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 Illinois Building Commission Act is amended | 5 |
| by changing Sections 10, 15, 20, 25, 30, and 35 as follows:
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| (20 ILCS 3918/10)
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| Sec. 10. Creation. An advisory commission, to be known as | 8 |
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Illinois Building Commission, is created. The Commission
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| shall consist of 15 Board
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members, including: a fire | 10 |
| official, a building official, an
architect,
a professional | 11 |
| engineer, a structural engineer, a commercial contractor
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| representative, a residential construction industry | 13 |
| representative, a
mechanical and specialty contractor | 14 |
| representative, a labor
representative, a disability advocate, | 15 |
| and a member of the public. Eleven members of the
Commission | 16 |
| shall be appointed by the Governor, with the advice and consent | 17 |
| of
the Senate. The President of the Senate, the Minority Leader | 18 |
| of the Senate, the Speaker of the House of Representatives, and | 19 |
| the Minority Leader of the House of Representatives shall each | 20 |
| appoint one legislative member to serve on the Commission. | 21 |
| From nominations received from the Governor, the members of | 22 |
| the Commission shall appoint an Executive Director who shall be | 23 |
| a person knowledgeable in the area of design and construction | 24 |
| requirements.
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| (Source: P.A. 90-269, eff. 1-1-98.)
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| (20 ILCS 3918/15)
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| Sec. 15. Terms and reimbursement. The fire official, | 28 |
| architect,
structural engineer, commercial contractor | 29 |
| representative, labor
representative, and member of the public | 30 |
| shall serve initial terms of 2 years.
The building official, | 31 |
| professional engineer, residential construction industry
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| representative, mechanical and specialty contractor | 2 |
| representative, and
disability advocate shall serve initial | 3 |
| terms of 3 years. Each subsequent
term shall be for 3 years. | 4 |
| Legislators shall serve terms of 2 years. Board members may be | 5 |
| appointed for more than one term. A
chairman of the Commission | 6 |
| shall be elected annually
each year by the members of the
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| Commission. Commission Board members shall be reimbursed for | 8 |
| travel expenses .
and
shall receive a per diem for each day that | 9 |
| the Commission or a subcommittee on
which the member serves | 10 |
| meets. Reimbursement shall be consistent with
the rules of the | 11 |
| Governor's
Travel Control Board.
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| (Source: P.A. 90-269, eff. 1-1-98.)
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| (20 ILCS 3918/20)
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| Sec. 20. Subcommittees. The Commission may create | 15 |
| subcommittees and appoint members and non-members to those | 16 |
| subcommittees as determined necessary by the Commission. | 17 |
| Subcommittee members shall be appointed by the Executive | 18 |
| Committee with the approval of the full Commission. A member of | 19 |
| the Commission shall be designated as an ex-officio member of | 20 |
| each designated subcommittee. All subcommittee recommendations | 21 |
| are subject to full Commission approval.
The Commission shall | 22 |
| create and appoint members
and non-members to
the following | 23 |
| subcommittees: the planning subcommittee, the building and | 24 |
| fire
protection subcommittee, the building envelope
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| subcommittee, the structural systems subcommittee, the | 26 |
| building services
subcommittee, and the
accessibility | 27 |
| subcommittee. There shall be at least 5 members but not more
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| than 9 members on each subcommittee. The subcommittees shall | 29 |
| advise the
Commission on any item before the Commission that | 30 |
| deals with the area of
expertise of the subcommittee.
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| Commission may create any other subcommittee that it deems | 32 |
| necessary.
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| (Source: P.A. 90-269, eff. 1-1-98.)
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| (20 ILCS 3918/25)
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| Sec. 25. Forum; dispute resolution. The Commission shall | 2 |
| provide an
ongoing forum for continuing dialogue regarding the | 3 |
| purpose and duties of the
Commission. The Commission shall also | 4 |
| serve as a forum to recommend
suggest resolution
of conflicts | 5 |
| between State agencies, or between a State agency and another
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| entity that consents to the resolution forum, concerning State | 7 |
| building
requirements.
As used in this Section, for dispute | 8 |
| resolution arising out of Section 8 or
8.5 of the Hospital | 9 |
| Licensing Act, "building requirements" includes the
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| application of building codes for new and existing construction | 11 |
| and related
Department rules and standards under the Hospital | 12 |
| Licensing Act, including
without limitation rules and | 13 |
| standards for (i) design and construction, (ii)
engineering and | 14 |
| maintenance of the physical plant, site, equipment, and
systems | 15 |
| (heating, cooling, electrical, ventilation, plumbing, water, | 16 |
| sewer,
and solid waste disposal), and (iii) fire and safety.
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| If the recommended
suggested resolution of a conflict | 18 |
| between the Department of Public
Health and a health care | 19 |
| provider is to (i) accept an equivalency determined
by the Fire | 20 |
| Safety Evaluation System, (ii) waive State rules or standards, | 21 |
| or
(iii) seek a waiver of federal rules or standards, the | 22 |
| Commission may take
steps it deems reasonably necessary to | 23 |
| facilitate the recommended
suggested resolution,
including | 24 |
| preparing a waiver request and directing the Department of | 25 |
| Public
Health to recommend the request to the appropriate | 26 |
| federal agency.
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| (Source: P.A. 92-803, eff. 8-16-02.)
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| (20 ILCS 3918/30)
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| Sec. 30. State building requirements review; compliance | 30 |
| alternatives. The
Commission
shall review proposed State | 31 |
| building requirement amendments and proposed
legislation
for
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| conflicting requirements to current State law or current | 33 |
| building requirements
and make recommendations concerning | 34 |
| those amendments or laws to the proper
authority.
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| Commission shall (i) recommend
suggest a
standard form for |
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| requesting compliance alternatives and modifications of State
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| building
requirements; (ii)
forward compliance alternatives | 3 |
| requests to the appropriate State agency for
action;
and (iii) | 4 |
| recommend
suggest procedures and formats for appeals of State | 5 |
| agency decisions.
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| (Source: P.A. 90-269, eff. 1-1-98.)
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| (20 ILCS 3918/35)
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| Sec. 35. Administration and enforcement of State building
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| requirements. The Commission shall also recommend
suggest a | 10 |
| long-term plan to improve
administration and enforcement of | 11 |
| State building requirements
statewide. The plan shall include | 12 |
| (i)
recommendations for ways the Department of Commerce and | 13 |
| Economic Opportunity
Community Affairs
could create a | 14 |
| consolidated clearinghouse on all information concerning
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| existing
State building requirements, (ii) recommendations for
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| a consistent format for State building requirements,
(iii)
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| recommendations for a system or procedure for updating existing | 18 |
| State building
requirements that shall include a procedure for | 19 |
| input from the public,
(iv) recommendations for a system or | 20 |
| procedure for the review, approval, and
appeal of building | 21 |
| plans, and (v) recommendations for a system or procedure to
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| enforce the State building requirements.
The Commission shall
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| submit
its suggestions for creating the consolidated | 24 |
| clearinghouse to the Department
of Commerce
and
Community | 25 |
| Affairs as soon as practical after the effective
date
of this | 26 |
| Act.
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| (Source: P.A. 90-269, eff. 1-1-98.)
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