SB3263 99TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY

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99TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2015 and 2016
SB3263

Introduced 2/19/2016, by Sen. Wm. Sam McCann

SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:

525 ILCS 10/3

from Ch. 5, par. 933

Amends the Illinois Exotic Weed Act. Provides that The Director of Natural Resources shall, as needed, report to the Governor and the General Assembly on changes to be made to this Section, both to remove plants that the Director has determined by rule not to be exotic weeds, and to add exotic weeds to the list contained in this Section.

A BILL FOR

AN ACT concerning conservation.

Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly:

Section 5. The Illinois Exotic Weed Act is amended by changing Section 3 as follows:

(525 ILCS 10/3) (from Ch. 5, par. 933)

Sec. 3. Designated exotic weeds. Japanese honeysuckle (Lonicera japonica), multiflora rose (Rosa multiflora), purple loosestrife (Lythrum salicaria), common buckthorn (Rhamnus cathartica), glossy buckthorn (Rhamnus frangula), saw-toothed buckthorn (Rhamnus arguta), dahurian buckthorn (Rhamnus davurica), Japanese buckthorn (Rhamnus japonica), Chinese buckthorn (Rhamnus utilis), kudzu (Pueraria lobata), exotic bush honeysuckles (Lonicera maackii, Lonicera tatarica, Lonicera morrowii, and Lonicera fragrantissima), exotic olives (Elaeagnus umbellata, Elaeagnus pungens, Elaeagnus angustifolia), salt cedar (all members of the Tamarix genus), poison hemlock (Conium maculatum), giant hogweed (Heracleum mantegazzianum), Oriental bittersweet (Celastrus orbiculatus), and lesser celandine (Ficaria verna), teasel (all members of the Dipsacus genus), and Japanese, giant, and Bohemian knotweed (Fallopia japonica, syn. Polygonum cuspidatum; Fallopia sachalinensis; and Fallopia x bohemica, resp.) are hereby designated exotic weeds. Upon petition the Director of Natural Resources, by rule, shall exempt varieties of any species listed in this Act that can be demonstrated by published or current research not to be an exotic weed as defined in Section 2. The Director of Natural Resources shall, as needed, report to the Governor and the General Assembly on changes to be made to this Section, both to remove plants that the Director has determined by rule not to be exotic weeds, and to add exotic weeds to the list contained in this Section.

(Source: P.A. 99-81, eff. 1-1-16.)